Theia, (also spelt, Thea, Théa or This) and also known as Euryphaessa[1] is a Mount Othrys character in Greek Mythology. She made her début in around seven hundred BCE on Homer's: The Iliad and ends around the ninth century.
Tethys was a greek titaness and also the mother of the sun, moon and the dawn in Greek Mythology.
History[]
In Greek mythology, Tethys was a titaness, she was the daughter of Uranus and Gaia and wife to her brother, Hyperion.
Early Myths[]
Hesiod's Theogony gives her an equally primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). Robert Graves also relates that later Theia is referred to as the cow-eyed Euryphaessa who gave birth to Helios in myths dating to Classical Antiquity.
Later Myths[]
Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, "mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one" of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn).
Pindar praises Theia in his Fifth Isthmian ode:
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.
She seems here a goddess of glittering in particular and of glory in general, but Pindar's allusion to her as "Theia of many names" is telling, since it suggests assimilation, referring not only to similar mother-of-the-sun goddesses such as Phoebe and Leto, but perhaps also to more universalizing mother-figures such as Rhea and Cybele.
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