Hecatoncheires (Hecato nchires) Greek The hundred-handed giants, offspring of Gaia and Uranus.
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Hecatoncheires (Hecato nchires) Greek The hundred-handed giants, offspring of Gaia and Uranus. Their names were Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges. They helped Zeus in the war against the Titans. The Hundred-Handed Ones are thought to represent early bands of warriors, who were organized in groups of 100 men. In Latin poetry, their name is Centimani.
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- Gigantes (Giants) Greek The offspring of Gaia and the blood of the wounded Uranus.
- Cyclopes (1) (Singular: Cyclops; Round-eyed) Greek Three sons of Uranus and Gaia, large and strong, each with one eye in the middle of his forehead; siblings of the Hecatoncheires, hundredhanded giants, and the younger Titans.
- Mnemosyne (Memory) Greek A Titan, daughter of Gaia and Uranus; with Zeus, mother of the Muses.
- Oceanus Greek The Titan son of Gaia and Uranus and the brother and husband of the Titan Tethys; father of all the Oceanids and all the rivers and seas of the world.
- Phoebe (Bright) Greek A Titan, one of the daughters of Uranus and Gaia.