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In , fighting from Mount Othrys , and the Olympians , who would come to reign on Mount Olympus . It is also known as the ''Battle of the Titans'', ''Battle of Gods'', or just the ''Titan War''. Greeks of the Classical age knew of several Poem s about the war between the gods and many of the Titans. The dominant one, and the only one that has survived, was the '' Theogony '' attributed to Hesiod . A lost epic, ''Titanomachy'', attributed to the blind Thracian bard Thamyris , himself a legendary figure, was mentioned in passing in an essay ''On Music'' that was once attributed to Plutarch . The Titans also played a prominent role in the poems attributed to Orpheus . Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences with the Hesiodic tradition. These Greek myths of the Titanomachy fall into a class of similar myths throughout Europe and the Near East, where one generation or group of gods by and large opposes the dominant one. Sometimes the Elder Gods are supplanted. Sometimes the rebels lose, and are either cast out of power entirely or incorporated into the Pantheon . Other examples might include the wars of the Æsir with the Vanir and Jotun s in Scandinavian Mythology , the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish , the Hittite "Kingship in Heaven" narrative, and the obscure generational conflict in Ugarit ic fragments. The Abrahamic religions ( Judaism , Christianity and Islam ) describe a similar event, the revolt of a group of Angels , led by Satan . In this case, the younger "gods" lost the war and were cast into Hell . PRIOR EVENTS This stage for this important battle was set after the youngest Titan, Cronus , overthrew his own father, Uranus (god of the Heaven and ruler of the universe), with the help of his mother, Gaia (the earth). Cronus then Castrated his father, took his throne, and released his fellow Titan siblings, who had been locked away in Tartarus under Uranus' tyrannical and selfish reign. However, as Uranus was usurped, he made a prophecy that Cronus' own children would rebel against his rule just as he and his siblings had done to him. For fear of his unborn children rising against him, Cronus now turned into the terrible king his father Uranus had been, swallowing each of his children whole as they were born from his wife (and sister) Rhea . However Rhea, managed to hide her fifth and sixth children, Poseidon and Zeus , having Cronus swallowing a foal instead of Poseidon, and a rock instead of Zeus. Rhea brought Zeus to a cave on an abandoned island, where Zeus was raised by various other magical beings. When Zeus became a teenager, he went to one of Cronus' parties disguised as a fellow Titan, and gave Cronus some special potion, which caused Cronus to vomit up his swallowed siblings. Zeus then led his brothers and sisters in rebellion against the Titans. WAR Now the Olympians, led by Zeus, declared war against the previous generation of deities, the Titans. The Titans who fought were led by Cronus and included: , Demeter , Hera , Hades , and Poseidon . Additionally, the Hecatonchires (Hundred-handed), the Gigantes (Giants) and Cyclopes , who had been imprisoned by Cronus, assisted the Olympians. It is said the Hecatonchires helped the Olympians by hurling huge stones at the Titans—one hundred at a time. The Cyclopes helped by crafting Zeus' famous weapon, the lightning bolt. Having at last won victory after a full decade of war, the Olympian gods divided the spoils between themselves, granting dominion of the heavens and sky to Zeus, the sea and land to Poseidon, and the underworld to Hades. The Olympians then shut the defeated Titans within Tartarus , the deepest depths of the underworld. However, since during the war Oceanus and the ''Titanides'' (female Titans), Thia , Rhea , Themis , Mnemosyne , Phoebe , Hecate and Tethys , had remained neutral, they were not punished by Zeus. The Hecatonchires remained guard over them until, in time, Zeus set all but Atlas free. Old Uranus, the sky, nearly collapsed onto the earth after the war because so much fighting had occurred below. As a result, Zeus condemned Atlas to hold up the heavens and sky for eternity. EXTERNAL LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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