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See also:TITANS (Gr. Ttraaves) , in See also:Greek See also:mythology, the See also:children of See also:Uranus and Gaea . According to See also:Hesiod (Theog . 133), the male See also:Titans were See also:Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, See also:Hyperion, See also:Iapetus and Cronus; the See also:female, Thea, See also:Rhea, See also:Themis, Mnemosyne, See also:Phoebe and Tethys, to whom See also:Apollodorus adds See also:Dione . At the instigation of Gaea they rebelled against their See also:father, who had shut them up in the bowels of the See also:earth, and set up as ruler their youngest See also:brother, Cronus, who in turn was dethroned by his son See also:Zeus . A struggle then ensued between Zeus and Cronus, in which the Titans took different sides . The opponents of Zeus were finally defeated, and imprisoned in See also:Tartarus (Theog . 1J3-210, 617 sqq.) . The rebellious Titans are the representatives of the See also:wild, disorderly forces of nature, who are defeated by the Olympian deities, who stand for See also:law and See also:order . The name Titans is usually explained as " See also:avengers," referring to the vengeance taken by Cronus on his father Uranus, but A . Dieterich (Rheinisches Museum, 1893, xlviii., and J . E . See also:Harrison (Prolegomena to Greek See also:Religion) connect it with riravos (See also:gypsum) .
According to See also:Harpocration (s.v
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'Airoparrwv), the Titans, when they mutilated See also:Dionysus Zagreus (see DIONYSUS), besmeared themselves with gypsum tp conceal their identity, as See also:Artemis daubed her See also:face with mud to See also:escape the See also:river-See also:god See also:Alpheus
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The See also:custom was practised at Bacchic and purificatory See also:rites (See also:Demosthenes, De See also:corona, p
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313) as among See also:savage tribes at the See also:present See also:day
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The Titan See also:story is probably an See also:attempt to explain the fact that the Orphic worshippers, when about to See also:tear the sacred See also:animal, daubed themselves with gypsum
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Weniger, in an See also:article " Feralis exercitus " in Archiv See also:fur Religionsgeschichte (May 1906, See also:February and See also:
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