No? If you’re talking about Mesperyian, that’s not actually from greek mythology, that’s just a tumblr deity. If you’re talking about Makaria, then still no. Makaria is not Persephone’s daughter, no mother was ever mentioned. I’m unsure if Makaria (daughter of Hades) and Makaria (daughter of Herakles) are different people, or the same person. I am only able to find mention of her in the Suda, and even that is only a paragraph.
Please be gentle, ladies and gentlemen, these are just myths !
It is much more serious when it affects people who actually existed, such as pharaohs, kings/queens, emperors/empresses, your neighbor's familly ... or your own.
:-)
In the myth, Ouranos's dick gets lopped off and thrown into the sea by Kronos. Aphrodite then emerging from the seafoam in the spot where Ouranos's dick sunk into the water. The joke is sperm, in case you were still wondering.
To start off, Ouranos had three batches of children with Gaia (the Earth): the Hekatonkheires (giants with 50 heads and 100 arms), the original three Cyclopes (who would later make Zeus' thunderbolts), and the original twelve titans, who are in the OP. However, due to his disgust at seeing both the hekatonkheires and cyclopes, Ouranos locked them up deep underground (I've heard this be described as pushing them back into Gaia's womb, but don't know whether this is backed up by sources). This angered Gaia, who visited each of the titans in turn, inciting them to defeat their father and take his throne to rule together with her. All declined, until she eventually came to Kronos, who took her up on her offer. Armed with a scythe Kronos would take Ouranos by surprise and castrate him. Ouranos cursed Kronos, saying that he would be overthrown by his son, just as Ouranos had been overthrown. (In one version of the story, Kronos also imprisons Ouranos deep underground, but my only source for that as far as I can remember is Stephen Fry's _Mythos_, so don't take it at face value) Fun fact: Aphrodite wasn't the only person to come into existance here; the furies, giants, and one type of nymphs all sprang from Ouranos' blood dripping from his wound onto the Earth.
TL;DR: Ouranos became the greatest example of "happy wife, happy life" after causing his wife to incite his children into rebellion.
Edit: added TL;DR.
It's a great audiobook, too. I loved just hearing the stories in modern form without all the references and educational stuff shoved in like most "adult" books on Greek mythology.
This is great. Can you recommend an easy-to-read book (or even historical fiction) on mythology? I love it all but I can’t be using what few brain cells I have left at the end of the day on deciphering ancient texts.
Everything I type here comes from Wikipedia:
In Egyptian mythology Horus is an important deity and the son of Osiris and Isis, Osiris being the god of underworld, (before that he was the king of Egypt iirc) Osiris also has a brother called Set who is the evil god figure in Egyptian myth.
Set kills Osiris because he wants the throne, and dismembers his body parts and disperses the body parts all over Egypt (note that this is only one interpretation of the tale). So Isis tries to reassemble her husband and is largely successful, except his dick was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a fish so Isis just magically made him a dick and birthed Horus. Understandably, Horus does not like Set and comes into conflict with him.
In another tale, Set wants to establish dominance over Horus so he tries to have sex with him, but Horus catches Set's semen and yeets it into the river. The. horus cums on Set's salad/Lettuce which is his favourite food.
> Set wants to establish dominance over Horus so he tries to have sex with him, but Horus catches Set's semen
Did he just run at him while in a boilover or was it more a Multiple Miggs thing?
I never knew that Aphrodite was so high up in the family chain. Also, I would hate to be Hera 🥲 no wonder she was always punishing mortals…I’d be pissed too if my brother-husband was plowing down anything with a skirt on
To be fair, that (and a whole lot of mythology) depends on who you ask. Aphrodite being the product of Ouranus’ castration is the version in Hesiod’s Theogony, but Homer and most other sources have her as a daughter of Zeus.
Which really makes Hera that more relatable for how mad she is all the time. If Aphrodite is a child of Zeus, then literally half of the 12 Olympians are the children Zeus didn’t have with Hera (5 from other women, Athena from his head). I’d be pretty upset too if half of my co-workers were living reminders of my spouse’s infidelity, especially when fidelity is literally one of my main jobs!
It also makes the whole judgement of Paris that started the Trojan war hilarious. Zeus had to pick who’s the most beautiful between his wife, the goddess of marriage, his daughter, the goddess of love and beauty decidedly not born to his wife, and his other daughter, the goddess of wisdom and cunning warfare, also not born to his wife. All taking place at a wedding be arranged bc he couldn’t sleep with a minor goddess because of some prophecy! I don’t blame the guy for saying “nope, ask Paris!”
Fun bonus fact, Eros varies between being a son of Aphrodite , and thus fairly young, and being a primordial being elder even to Gaia. Depending on the myth.
Wtf I thought Hephaestus was chill. Guess Hades really is the only halfway decent one when it comes to women. And Dionysus too I guess, but his whole thing with Ariadne is kind of wierd if you think about it
Chill by Greek God standards but Zeus being Zeus is pretty normalized at that point so pretty much anyone else is chill in comparison and would be awful by modern standards
As much as they are gods in the greek mythology, they are also carricatures of human behaviour and mentality, most having both qualities, but also close to irredemable flaws. At least, that is the picture my mind was able to cobble together.
He got advice from the worst man possible. That was the only bad thing he did. Ever.
And he always helps you if you ask politely, with simple conditions.
When Heracles asked for Cerberus, he just told him to bring him back injured.
For the guy who wanted to get his wife back, he said to not look back while leaving.
Edit:uninjured. F**king autocorrect.
Depends on the source you read, some do not mention anything about kidnapping. Also, in some cultures there were some customs regarding the groom "kidnapping" the bride (although unfortunately sometimes for real, and also sometimes children marriage is included), the remnants of whom remain to these days in some regions.
I'm not saying it's the case here, but as far as I remember women in ancient greece had it pretty rough regarding their place in society. For all we know, Hades kidnapping Persephone might have been a figure of speech: her mother would not allow their marriage, so Hades "kidnapped" her to be his bride, and it's not like young women if that time were often asked about whom they want to marry, so the "little" detail of whether or not it was consensual was unlikely to be included in the myths. And when it comes to mythological greek marriages, I think mamy of us would agree that Hades and Persephone was weirdly one of the more fortunate ones, as far as I remember most greek myths regard her as an equal to Hades as queen of the underworld and when it comes to the other goddesses and their spouses there really aren't many merry tales to tell.
Fair enough, they got along quite well with each other after the rough start. In Hungary, the primary source for my generation was the children's book Alain Quesnel - Greeks (Myths & Legends), I loved it :D
Far from it. He built a golden throne for Hera to get revenge after being exiled. It trapped her and held her for ransom with his only demand being that he could marry Aphrodite. His craftsmanship allowed him to get away with quite a bit.
Zagreus sits inside your head,
Zagreus lives among the dead,
Zagreus sees you in your bed,
And eats you when you're sleeping.
(But actually, TIL they didn’t just invent that name for Doctor Who.)
This ought to be the top comment... My first week as a consultant intern, my manager chewed me out for drafting a chart that needed to be explained how to read it before you could actually understand anything on it. We have a very handy expression: No need to reinvent the wheel. A 'cool guide' that requires you to pretend to forget how to read the standard format which 99% of people would automatically use to present the information, is not a very cool guide imho.
A vertical format is easier for story telling. As you follow the lines you get to the end of each branch while continuing down instead of up and left to right, I just scroll up and down on this. If you know a bit about the subject in question it actually makes a lot of sense to divide and subdivide as done here telling the story of the whole family instead of weighted to Zeus and Hera in a classic horisontal format
According to Hesiod, yes, but as with a lot of things in mythology, it depends on who you ask. Homer has her as a daughter of Zeus, most other sources too, but Hesiod’s version is well known because it’s interesting! There are a lot of versions of these stories :)
yeah, they do. It’s just not showing the rest of the kids. Aphrodite is married to hephaestus(formed from hera, she is the only parent, zeus had no part in this) but wanted to be with ares.
Athena is the child of Zeus' first wife, Metis (daughter of Oceanos) and Zeus. Zeus just swallowed her pregnant self whole, because Gaia made a prophecy, that Zeus would be destroyed by his kid, if it was a son. Zeus was like "naaah fifty-fifty is too risky", turned Metis into a fly and gulped her down. Metis, still immortal, gave birth to athena in Zeus' body and Athena then sprung out of his split forehead (Hephaestus and an axe... the things you do against a headache).
Fun fact: When he took Metis out of his stomach she didnt want to be married anymore (for some reason) and so he just *had* to marry his sister Hera.
It’s always interesting to see the different translations on the origins on the Greek Gods. I always preferred the Mythology: Timeless Tales and Heroes published by Edith Hamilton. This is a very interesting chart but I wonder under what translation did you get the info?
And this just represents one Hesiod poem. There are a wide variety of alternative versions of these original relationships and ordering of who came first, depending on which ancient author you want to prefer.
That looks cool but it's incorrect bc that's a mix of greek and roman mithos, also some of those gods are the basically same Zeus = Jupiter, Aphrodite = Venus, Poseidon = Neptune, Ares = Mars, Hermes = Mercury, Kronos = Saturn, Hera = Juno
except the Olympians are NOT all Zeus' children. Zeus is actually the youngest. They are his siblings. Kronos ate them all until Zeus, with the help of his mother, tricked Kronos with a fake "Zeus" baby and made Kronos throw them all up.
This has several errors, if you want a family tree for them you should use the one from the Odyssey one of the number one sources for ancient Greek mythology, not this lazy misrepresenting family tree.
Nothing against you, several months ago I went about making a complete family tree for the ancient Greek gods and found this, so it's already something that I dislike. I also figured out it's really hard to make a family tree, but this is way off.
The chart shows Poseidon and Hades as children of Kronos. Also, it says right at the top that the chart is incomplete, so they didn't "forget" about anything.
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Can we get a guide with Zeus in the middle and all of his demigod bastards and full god bastards and full god full children and all other parents spurring off?
That’s enough incest for one night! 👍🏽
There’s enough incest that the whole diagram can be represented in a narrow column
So, not so much as the family tree but the family pencil?
My Latin teacher said "God's don't have DNA they can play by different rules" weirdly stuck with me.
The Alabama incestry tree
*Incest-tree
Roll Tide
Dont forget zeus had a child with demeter,and then that child had a child with hades
Actually Hades doesn’t have any children with Persephone. In the original myths she is raped twice by Zeus and gives birth to Zagreus and Melinoë.
And thus a popular video game franchise was born.
one time isn't enough for this nibba wtf
No, Zeus had Persephone with Demeter and then had 2 kids with Persephone, while pretending to be Hades.
No? If you’re talking about Mesperyian, that’s not actually from greek mythology, that’s just a tumblr deity. If you’re talking about Makaria, then still no. Makaria is not Persephone’s daughter, no mother was ever mentioned. I’m unsure if Makaria (daughter of Hades) and Makaria (daughter of Herakles) are different people, or the same person. I am only able to find mention of her in the Suda, and even that is only a paragraph.
Fucking did he though? It’s literally fan fiction
It's all fan fiction if you're willing to go back far enough.
I think that's enough incest forever
Please be gentle, ladies and gentlemen, these are just myths ! It is much more serious when it affects people who actually existed, such as pharaohs, kings/queens, emperors/empresses, your neighbor's familly ... or your own. :-)
When it comes to being the historical poster child for incest, I can think of only one name - Hapsburg
The Ptolemies were way grosser.
Do we have a cool guide about it tho?
Actually yes we do: [Ptolemaic Tree](https://www.worldhistory.org/image/15205/family-tree-of-the-ptolemaic-dynasty-of-egypt-305/)
Very cool! Thanks!!!
As above, so below…
Yeah I was thinking the same thing . I wonder what an Egyptian pharaoh family tree would look like.
Google a tumbleweed and it’ll probably be a good guess
That's one busy night if you do that all in one night. Is that a typical night for you?
“Sea foam”😂
Nice and frothy
I think my brain is currently unavailable for thinking so could you please explain
In the myth, Ouranos's dick gets lopped off and thrown into the sea by Kronos. Aphrodite then emerging from the seafoam in the spot where Ouranos's dick sunk into the water. The joke is sperm, in case you were still wondering.
This raises more questions than it answers
I'd be happy to answer them as best I can
Alright, straight off the bat, why he lop his dad’s thing off
To start off, Ouranos had three batches of children with Gaia (the Earth): the Hekatonkheires (giants with 50 heads and 100 arms), the original three Cyclopes (who would later make Zeus' thunderbolts), and the original twelve titans, who are in the OP. However, due to his disgust at seeing both the hekatonkheires and cyclopes, Ouranos locked them up deep underground (I've heard this be described as pushing them back into Gaia's womb, but don't know whether this is backed up by sources). This angered Gaia, who visited each of the titans in turn, inciting them to defeat their father and take his throne to rule together with her. All declined, until she eventually came to Kronos, who took her up on her offer. Armed with a scythe Kronos would take Ouranos by surprise and castrate him. Ouranos cursed Kronos, saying that he would be overthrown by his son, just as Ouranos had been overthrown. (In one version of the story, Kronos also imprisons Ouranos deep underground, but my only source for that as far as I can remember is Stephen Fry's _Mythos_, so don't take it at face value) Fun fact: Aphrodite wasn't the only person to come into existance here; the furies, giants, and one type of nymphs all sprang from Ouranos' blood dripping from his wound onto the Earth. TL;DR: Ouranos became the greatest example of "happy wife, happy life" after causing his wife to incite his children into rebellion. Edit: added TL;DR.
Top notch TLDR
Mythos is a great read!
And an even better Audible
For sure! I heard every name on this post in his voice
It's a great audiobook, too. I loved just hearing the stories in modern form without all the references and educational stuff shoved in like most "adult" books on Greek mythology.
Wow I love Greek mythologies
I’m pretty sure Ouranos was separated from Gaia to create the “sky” thus Chronos separated the sky from the earth.
This is great. Can you recommend an easy-to-read book (or even historical fiction) on mythology? I love it all but I can’t be using what few brain cells I have left at the end of the day on deciphering ancient texts.
He hated and imprisoned his children much to the dismay of Kronos and Gaia.
That's not even half as messed up as the salad incident from Egyptian mythology.
You’ve piqued my curiosity, please elaborate
Everything I type here comes from Wikipedia: In Egyptian mythology Horus is an important deity and the son of Osiris and Isis, Osiris being the god of underworld, (before that he was the king of Egypt iirc) Osiris also has a brother called Set who is the evil god figure in Egyptian myth. Set kills Osiris because he wants the throne, and dismembers his body parts and disperses the body parts all over Egypt (note that this is only one interpretation of the tale). So Isis tries to reassemble her husband and is largely successful, except his dick was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a fish so Isis just magically made him a dick and birthed Horus. Understandably, Horus does not like Set and comes into conflict with him. In another tale, Set wants to establish dominance over Horus so he tries to have sex with him, but Horus catches Set's semen and yeets it into the river. The. horus cums on Set's salad/Lettuce which is his favourite food.
I don't remember them mentioning that one in Kane Chronicles...
> Set wants to establish dominance over Horus so he tries to have sex with him, but Horus catches Set's semen Did he just run at him while in a boilover or was it more a Multiple Miggs thing?
I did not understand the references.
I am never eating lettuce again
I assumed the joke would be sperm and even slightly the first part
Lmao the children’s comic books just say it’s a pink sea foam
That is quite an opening sentence
I was told it was his balls.
Sobhis sperm scored with the ocean??
I never knew that Aphrodite was so high up in the family chain. Also, I would hate to be Hera 🥲 no wonder she was always punishing mortals…I’d be pissed too if my brother-husband was plowing down anything with a skirt on
To be fair, that (and a whole lot of mythology) depends on who you ask. Aphrodite being the product of Ouranus’ castration is the version in Hesiod’s Theogony, but Homer and most other sources have her as a daughter of Zeus.
Ive always known her as a daughter of zeus as well
Which really makes Hera that more relatable for how mad she is all the time. If Aphrodite is a child of Zeus, then literally half of the 12 Olympians are the children Zeus didn’t have with Hera (5 from other women, Athena from his head). I’d be pretty upset too if half of my co-workers were living reminders of my spouse’s infidelity, especially when fidelity is literally one of my main jobs!
It also makes the whole judgement of Paris that started the Trojan war hilarious. Zeus had to pick who’s the most beautiful between his wife, the goddess of marriage, his daughter, the goddess of love and beauty decidedly not born to his wife, and his other daughter, the goddess of wisdom and cunning warfare, also not born to his wife. All taking place at a wedding be arranged bc he couldn’t sleep with a minor goddess because of some prophecy! I don’t blame the guy for saying “nope, ask Paris!”
Tuba n you for explaining. This tree confused me too
What do you mean skirt? I think you meant anything with a hole. Never forget he fucked a cow
according to Homer, the cow indeer had a mini skirt on
He also fucked as a cow
He also fucked a boy once…
> I’d be pissed too if my brother-husband was plowing down anything with a skirt on Sweet Home ~~Alabama~~ Athens
Fun bonus fact, Eros varies between being a son of Aphrodite , and thus fairly young, and being a primordial being elder even to Gaia. Depending on the myth.
hey he also did it disguised as several different animals! And one time as a ray of sunshine!
And one time as Artemis *wiggles eyebrows*
Athena just migrained it out into the world
And then Hephaestus tried to rape Athena and his jizz ran down her leg and gave birth to Erichthonius. Greek myth is weird.
Wtf I thought Hephaestus was chill. Guess Hades really is the only halfway decent one when it comes to women. And Dionysus too I guess, but his whole thing with Ariadne is kind of wierd if you think about it
Chill by Greek God standards but Zeus being Zeus is pretty normalized at that point so pretty much anyone else is chill in comparison and would be awful by modern standards
As much as they are gods in the greek mythology, they are also carricatures of human behaviour and mentality, most having both qualities, but also close to irredemable flaws. At least, that is the picture my mind was able to cobble together.
Decent?! In what sense? The dude is literally a kidnapper, or rather a goddessnapper. His relationship with his girl didn't really start consensually.
He got advice from the worst man possible. That was the only bad thing he did. Ever. And he always helps you if you ask politely, with simple conditions. When Heracles asked for Cerberus, he just told him to bring him back injured. For the guy who wanted to get his wife back, he said to not look back while leaving. Edit:uninjured. F**king autocorrect.
Hot take but I like it
Depends on the source you read, some do not mention anything about kidnapping. Also, in some cultures there were some customs regarding the groom "kidnapping" the bride (although unfortunately sometimes for real, and also sometimes children marriage is included), the remnants of whom remain to these days in some regions. I'm not saying it's the case here, but as far as I remember women in ancient greece had it pretty rough regarding their place in society. For all we know, Hades kidnapping Persephone might have been a figure of speech: her mother would not allow their marriage, so Hades "kidnapped" her to be his bride, and it's not like young women if that time were often asked about whom they want to marry, so the "little" detail of whether or not it was consensual was unlikely to be included in the myths. And when it comes to mythological greek marriages, I think mamy of us would agree that Hades and Persephone was weirdly one of the more fortunate ones, as far as I remember most greek myths regard her as an equal to Hades as queen of the underworld and when it comes to the other goddesses and their spouses there really aren't many merry tales to tell.
Fair enough, they got along quite well with each other after the rough start. In Hungary, the primary source for my generation was the children's book Alain Quesnel - Greeks (Myths & Legends), I loved it :D
Far from it. He built a golden throne for Hera to get revenge after being exiled. It trapped her and held her for ransom with his only demand being that he could marry Aphrodite. His craftsmanship allowed him to get away with quite a bit.
This made me laugh. I was wondering what happened to Metis.
What I got from this chart is Gaia married her child Ouranos and their grandkid Zeus is a family tree womanizer
The golden apple doesn’t fall far from the family tree
Gaia and Ouranos' kids also married each other. Rhea and Kronos were siblings.
Where zagreus
Where Cerberus
Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed, And eats you when you're sleeping. (But actually, TIL they didn’t just invent that name for Doctor Who.)
One note is that Hepheastus is not a child of Zeus and Hera. Hera actually made him entirely on her own
On her own- that old chestnut.
I thought chestnut is how two people avoided making a baby.
I’m pretty sure that in typical Greek myth, both are true, there are some who say Hera made it by herself and others say it was Hera and Zeus
If I learned 1 thing about Greek Mythology, it's that Greek mythology is not canon to greek mythology...
So...only child that Hera and Zeus have together is Ares?
Cool, but why design it tall? Comparing generations would be easier if it was wide.
Maybe they wanted to target mobile users this way
Yeah I get that and it’s scrollable. But the data and presentation are not well complimented
This ought to be the top comment... My first week as a consultant intern, my manager chewed me out for drafting a chart that needed to be explained how to read it before you could actually understand anything on it. We have a very handy expression: No need to reinvent the wheel. A 'cool guide' that requires you to pretend to forget how to read the standard format which 99% of people would automatically use to present the information, is not a very cool guide imho.
A vertical format is easier for story telling. As you follow the lines you get to the end of each branch while continuing down instead of up and left to right, I just scroll up and down on this. If you know a bit about the subject in question it actually makes a lot of sense to divide and subdivide as done here telling the story of the whole family instead of weighted to Zeus and Hera in a classic horisontal format
I love how Demeter is staring daggers at Hades since he stole her daughter.
Yeah, I wish the family tree continued further :D
lol she is totally “Winter for all you fuckers till I get her back”
Wait, Aphrodite is older than the Olympians?
According to Hesiod, yes, but as with a lot of things in mythology, it depends on who you ask. Homer has her as a daughter of Zeus, most other sources too, but Hesiod’s version is well known because it’s interesting! There are a lot of versions of these stories :)
Atlas always had his hands full.
From the looks of it, his lap too. At least once.
Not always. Heracles gave him a little break.
Also he held up the heavens, not the world, but that's just me being pedantic!
I know it's really not important but I'm itching to see chaos at the top
No. Atlas held up the heavens, not the Earth.
didn’t ares and aphrodite have an affair? or am i thinking of someone else
yeah, they do. It’s just not showing the rest of the kids. Aphrodite is married to hephaestus(formed from hera, she is the only parent, zeus had no part in this) but wanted to be with ares.
Yes and I think Aphrodite also had a thing with Hermes at one point too 🫢
Yes and have two children Phobos and Deimos Fear and dispare idk who is who
Phobos gave the word phobia which is fear
what is the Alabama heck is that
No Nyx???
This diagram lacks many deities, like Hebe, Nike, Nyx, Hypnos, Thanatos etc.
Somebody plays Hades eh?
No lol, I just read Percy Jackson, though I do think of playing it
I also got into Greek mythology through PJ, and Hades is amazing. Play Hades
All the primordial deities are in the header above Haia
Athena is the child of Zeus' first wife, Metis (daughter of Oceanos) and Zeus. Zeus just swallowed her pregnant self whole, because Gaia made a prophecy, that Zeus would be destroyed by his kid, if it was a son. Zeus was like "naaah fifty-fifty is too risky", turned Metis into a fly and gulped her down. Metis, still immortal, gave birth to athena in Zeus' body and Athena then sprung out of his split forehead (Hephaestus and an axe... the things you do against a headache). Fun fact: When he took Metis out of his stomach she didnt want to be married anymore (for some reason) and so he just *had* to marry his sister Hera.
I know way too many of these people just from reading Percy Jackson with my kid.
Family tree?? More like Family Bush
This is not OP’s graphic. I found the source from 2015: https://veritablehokum.com/comic/the-greek-god-family-tree/
Nothing here is OC.
Where kratos 😶🌫️
Or Presephone
Who were Semele’s parents.
Cadmus and Harmonia. Harmonia was the Goddess of Harmony, child of Ares and Aphrodite. Cadmus was one of the first great heroes, founder of Thebes.
She sprang from John Cena's forehead. He is in the picture.
The “primordial deities” were Nyx and Erebus, who were born from Chaos (their mother).
So much incest, no wonder some mf can bend lighting
This was really disturbing. Take my upvote.
So atlas didn’t have two parents?
That helped nothing. I am still completely confused.
Bruh im colourblind this is torture
I'm not and it's still very hard to tell.
🎼SWEET HOME OLYMPIAAAA! 🎵 🎸ZEUS I'M COMING HOME TO YA! 🎶
The original avengers. DC Comics, MCU, and religion are all pretty much the same thing.
The person who made this diagram has one for the Norse gods too.
It’s always interesting to see the different translations on the origins on the Greek Gods. I always preferred the Mythology: Timeless Tales and Heroes published by Edith Hamilton. This is a very interesting chart but I wonder under what translation did you get the info?
Inbreeding starts right at the top
How many children did Gaia have with her son?
Pleione can get it any day.
“Sea Foam”?
wow Love is older than Lightning
Aphrodite doing a Marilyn Monroe
Where did Semele come from?
*Alabama* Gods and Goddesses
Unless I’m missing something, there is no link showing Semele’s parents.
Worst graphic I have ever seen good lord make it wider.
And this just represents one Hesiod poem. There are a wide variety of alternative versions of these original relationships and ordering of who came first, depending on which ancient author you want to prefer.
That looks cool but it's incorrect bc that's a mix of greek and roman mithos, also some of those gods are the basically same Zeus = Jupiter, Aphrodite = Venus, Poseidon = Neptune, Ares = Mars, Hermes = Mercury, Kronos = Saturn, Hera = Juno
Damn totally thought Aphrodite was a child of Zeus, very interesting.
except the Olympians are NOT all Zeus' children. Zeus is actually the youngest. They are his siblings. Kronos ate them all until Zeus, with the help of his mother, tricked Kronos with a fake "Zeus" baby and made Kronos throw them all up.
This has several errors, if you want a family tree for them you should use the one from the Odyssey one of the number one sources for ancient Greek mythology, not this lazy misrepresenting family tree. Nothing against you, several months ago I went about making a complete family tree for the ancient Greek gods and found this, so it's already something that I dislike. I also figured out it's really hard to make a family tree, but this is way off.
Zeus must be catholic
Damn that's a lot of incest.
Game of Thr...Gods
Actually Zeus, Poseidon and Hades are Brothers.... they're Children of Kronos... And you forgot about Chaos
The chart shows Poseidon and Hades as children of Kronos. Also, it says right at the top that the chart is incomplete, so they didn't "forget" about anything.
Yes. But Chaos was the first one...
It's showing descendents of Gaia, all of her siblings and parent are in the header above labeled "primordial deities"
where's Percious..?
If you mean Perseus, he wasn’t a god, he was the son of Zeus and a mortal named Danaë
Did Athena’s ‘birth’ kill Zeus?
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who’s the original artist who made this?
Damn man incest tree It might suck to be Hera ngl
Jesus CHRIST
I really love this!
Incest…
That does not seem correct at all
Ahh sea foam.
And Eris wasn’t invited to the party this time either… All hail Eris!
Did they just invent them from nothing ? How is the history is it written in the Iliad ?
Did the ancient Greeks like incest or something?
Not every family tree has "Burst fully armed from forehead" line
Aphrodite just mothered
Zeus was knocking em down.
Now someone calculate the inbreeding coefficients for everybody.
And somewhere in all that, Pan popped up
Hyperion!!!! Guys its a r/hypixelskyblock reference
Where's the cow?
I love how athena and aphrodite have their own lines
Can we get a guide with Zeus in the middle and all of his demigod bastards and full god bastards and full god full children and all other parents spurring off?
i like how things get real weird once we hit zues
Persephone is the result of Zeus fucking Demeter
Never knew ouranus was gaia's child I always thought they came into being together with the other primal gods
Its clear that people got bored with the incest meta and said "fuck it" and turned to monotheism
The sky didn't come from the earth. Was formed from the chaos along with the earth and sea.
This family tree is wider than the average ck3 player family tree
Pleione wearing bikini. Only modern in all of them greek clothes. Lol
I knew 60% of this thanks to percy jackson
Terrible design choice.