Theia

Theia ( ancient Greek: Θεία / or Thea Theia Θέα / Thea or Ethra Αἴθρα / Aethra ) is a female figure from Greek mythology.

It belongs as a daughter of Gaia and Uranus to the 12 Titans.

Name

Other names of Theia are basileia ( Βασίλεια - " Royal " ) and Thia ( " the Divine "; Latin diva ).

Your name is also from the Phoenician Thohu - " the void" - derived (see chaos ), which is reminiscent of their origin from the chaos.

Relationship

As the wife of her brother Hyperion she is the mother of the sun god Helios, the moon goddess Selene and the goddess of dawn, Eos. As this was also Euryphaessa, the " widely Bright " and Karl Kerényi one must recognize the moon goddess herself in her. With Okeanos as a husband she should be the mother of Kerkopen that were ultimately transformed by Zeus into monkeys.

Pedigree of the Titans

Fate

After Theia also for their children demands a share of the reign of the Titans, they will be punished: Hyperion is killed, drowned in the river Eridanus Helios and Selene then plunges to his death. That leads to a deep Theia " powerlessness ", during her Helios appears in a dream and proclaim that the new race of gods have appointed him to pull than the sun across the sky, while Selene was to enlighten the sky as the moon. When Theia wakes again, she forbids us every touch, with drums and cymbals pulls through the country and disappears in a storm, than you but tries to take.

Swell

• Karl Kerényi: The mythology of the Greeks. The gods and human stories. dtv, ISBN 3-423-30030-2
• Michael Köhlmeier: Classical legends of antiquity. ORF, 1995, Radio Edition literature