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A comprehensive guide to the sky god and goddeses of Greek mythology including Helius, Selene, Eos, Boreas, Zephyrus, Hesperus, Atlas, Horae, Hesperides, Zeus, Hera, Nyx, Hemera, Uranus, and other minor gods.
Zeus was the king of the ancient Greek gods, and the god of the sky, weather, law and order, destiny and fate. He was depicted as a regal, mature man with a sturdy figure and dark beard. His usual attributes were a lightning bolt, royal sceptre and eagle. His Roman name was Jupiter.
Uranus was the primordial god of the sky. The Greeks imagined the sky as a solid dome of brass, decorated with stars, whose edges rested upon the outermost limits of the flat earth. Uranus was the literal sky, just as his consort Gaea was the earth.
In Greek mythology Atlas was the Titan god who bore the sky aloft. He personified the quality of endurance. Atlas was a leader of the Titanes (Titans) in their war against Zeus and after their defeat he was condemned to carry the heavens upon his shoulders.
A comprehensive guide to the Olympian gods and goddesses of Greek mythology including Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Hestia, Athena, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Ares, Apollo, Artemis, Dionysus, Hermes, and the minor gods.
Iris was a goddess of sea and sky--her father Thaumas "the wondrous" was a marine-god, and her mother Elektra "the amber" a cloud-nymph. For the coastal-dwelling Greeks, the rainbow's arc was most often seen spanning the distance beteween cloud and sea, and so the goddess was believed to replenish the rain-clouds with water from the sea.
Aether was the primordial god (protogenos) of light and the bright, blue ether of the heavens. His mists filled the space between the solid dome of the sky and below the transparent mists of the earth-bound air.
KRONOS (Cronus) was the King of the Titanes and the god of time, in particular time when viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force. He ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father Ouranos (Uranus, Sky).
The first of these--the Olympian gods, Titan gods, and primordial gods--represent the three generations of deities to rule the cosmos. The next five categories divide the gods by domain, namely the gods of sky, sea, earth (rustic and agrarian), and underworld.
The Greek god of animals is the Greek goddess Artemis. She is the daughter of Zeus, the god of the sky, and Leto, the goddess of motherhood. Her twin brother is Apollo, the god of medicine, music, and poetry. In addition to animals, Artemis is also the goddess of hunting and nature.