Ourea

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Ourea ( ancient Greek Οὔρεα ) are the deities understood as personified mountains in Greek mythology . They are fatherless descendants of Gaia and thus siblings of Uranos and Pontos .

Ourea is the Etna in Sicily , the Athos in Northern Greece , the Helicon , Nysos , Oreios , the Parnes and the Olympus in central Greece and the Tmolos in Anatolia.

Web links

  • Ourea in the Theoi Project

Individual evidence

  1. Hesiod : Theogony The Primordial Beginning of Things: Chaos, Gaia, Uranos (verses 126–129).