Sky

Family: Primordial gods · Role: ruler of the whole world · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.1

Sky was the first ruler of the whole world. He wedded Earth and fathered the Hundred-handed—Briareos, Gyes, and Cottus—then the Cyclopes Arges, Steropes, and Brontes, and the Titans Ocean, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, Iapetus, and Cronus, along with the Titanides Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, Theia. “Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed”

Sky bound and cast the Hundred-handed and Cyclopes into Tartarus. Grieving for her children, Earth persuaded the Titans to attack him; all but Ocean joined the assault, and Cronus overthrew Sky with an adamantine sickle, cutting off his genitals and throwing them into the sea. Later, Earth brought forth the giants Porphyrion and Alcyoneus by Sky.

Relationship record

Life events

• Sky wedded Earth, beginning their offspring-bearing union.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1)
  • With: Earth
  • “Sky was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth, he begat first the Hundred-handed”
• Sky bound and cast the Hundred-handed and Cyclopes into Tartarus.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1 · 📍 Tartarus)
  • With: Briareos Gyes Cottus Arges Steropes Brontes
  • “But them Sky bound and cast into Tartarus, a gloomy place in Hades as far distant from earth as earth is distant from the sky.”
• Earth persuaded the Titans to attack Sky, and Cronus overthrew him with a sickle.(Apollodorus, Library 1.1)
  • With: Earth Cronus
  • “But Earth, grieved at the destruction of her children, who had been cast into Tartarus, persuaded the Titans to attack their father and gave Cronus an adamantine sickle. And they, all but Ocean, attacked him, and Cronus cut off his father's genitals and threw them into the sea;”
• Earth brought forth the giants by Sky.(Apollodorus, Library 1.6)
  • With: Earth
  • “Earth, vexed on account of the Titans, brought forth the giants, whom she had by Sky.”