Heaven

Also known as: starry Heaven · Role: god · First appears: Homeric Hymn XXX · To Earth the Mother of All

The War of the Titans states that Heaven was the son of Aether. In the same account, Heaven and Earth united and produced three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes. A Homeric hymn names him as the husband of Earth, while another calls Hyperion “the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.”

Relationship record

Life events

• Heaven and Earth united and produced three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes.(The War of the Titans)
  • With: Earth
  • “The fabled union of Heaven and Earth, by which they make three hundred-handed sons and three Cyclopes to be born to him.”
• Heaven was stated to be the son of Aether.(The War of the Titans)
  • With: Aether
  • “According to the writer of the War of the Titans Heaven was the son of Aether.”

Homeric Hymn XXX · To Earth the Mother of All

• married with Earth “Hail, Mother of the gods, wife of starry Heaven;”

Homeric Hymn XXXI · To Helios

• child: Hyperion “the Son of Earth and starry Heaven.”

The War of the Titans

• parent: Aether “According to the writer of the War of the Titans Heaven was the son of Aether.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.