Theia
Theia ( ancient Greek Θεία Theía ) or Ethra ( ancient Greek Αἴθρα Aíthra ) is a female figure in Greek mythology.
As the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, she is one of the twelve titans . Theia is venerated as the titan goddess of the bright blue sky, eyesight, precious stones and precious metals.
Names
Other names of the Theia are Basileia ( ancient Greek Βασίλεια Basíleia , German 'the royal' ) and Thia ( Θέα Théa , German 'the divine' , Latin diva ).
Their name is also derived from the Phoenician Thohu - "the void" (cf. Tohuwabohu ), which is reminiscent of their origins in chaos .
relationship
As the wife of her brother Hyperion , she is mother of the sun god Helios , the moon goddess Selene and the goddess of the dawn, Eos . As this she was also called Euryphaessa ( Εὐρυφάεσσα Eurypháessa , German ` ` the one who shines far and wide '' ) and according to Karl Kerényi one can recognize the moon goddess herself in her. With Oceanus as her husband, she is said to be the mother of the Kerkopen , who were ultimately transformed into monkeys by Zeus .
Pedigree of the Titans
| chaos | → | Gaia | → | Uranus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Family of gods | of the titans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oceanus | Kreios | Hyperion | Theia | Themis | Phoibe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kronos | Koios | Iapetos | Rhea | Mnemosyne | Tethys | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
fate
After Theia demands a share in the reign of the Titans for her children as well, she is punished: Hyperion is killed, Helios drowned in the Eridanus River and Selene then throws herself to her death. With Theia this leads to a deep "swoon" during which Helios appears to her in a dream and announces to her that the new race of gods has determined him to move as the sun over the firmament, while Selene as the moon should illuminate the sky. When Theia wakes up again, she forbids any contact, drums and cymbals through the country and disappears in a storm when one tries to grab her.
swell
- Karl Kerényi: The Mythology of the Greeks. The stories of gods and mankind . dtv, ISBN 3-423-30030-2
- Michael Köhlmeier: Classical sagas of antiquity . ORF, 1995, Edition Radio Literature
- Otto Höfer : Theia 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 5, Leipzig 1924, column 555 ( digitized version ).
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hesiod : Theogony 135.
- ↑ Weidner, CA (2015): The Encyclopedia of Mythology. The mysterious world of the ancient Greeks, Germans and Celts. Franconian Crumbach: tosa GmbH. P. 15.
- ↑ Scholion , Apollonios of Rhodes 454.
- ^ Johannes Tzetzes , Scholion: Lykophron Alexandra 91.