Hyperion married his sister, Thea. Like him, she was a goddess of light and also came to represent the blue sky. Thea was also the deity that gave gold, silver, and precious gems the luminescent radiance that made them so valued.
It is unsurprising, then, that the pair produced three children who were all associated with the lights of the heavens. Eos represented the warm light that rises above the horizon before the sun appears. She announced the coming of her brother. Next was their son, Helios. He was the god of the sun, who drove across the sky each day in a golden chariot drawn by three horses.
Helios was often conflated with his father as a god of light. Hyperion is sometimes given as an epithet to Helios. Last there was Selene , the goddess of the moon. The counterpart to her brother, she travelled by night. Helios and Selene would later come to be associated with Apollo and Artemis.
The twin Olympians shared many of the attributes of the other brother and sister pair, but Helios and Selene remained separate entities. From his vantage point in the heavens and because he brought light to dark places, Hyperion could see everything that happened on the earth below.
Of Hyperion we are told that he was the first to understand, by diligent attention and observation, the movement of both the sun and the moon and the other stars, and the seasons as well, in that they are caused by these bodies, and to make these facts known to others; and that for this reason he was called the father of these bodies, since he had begotten, so to speak, the speculation about them and their nature.
Hyperion spent so long watching the movements of his children and the other celestial bodies that he began to recognize their patterns. He watched how these affected the earth below and came to a greater understanding of how the world as a whole worked. His watchfulness and careful observations earned him dominion over the realm of knowledge as well. He learned to trace how the movements of his children, the sun and the moon, made the cycle of days, months, seasons, and years.
He was the first to make the distinction between these time periods. He also saw how Selene affected Oceanus and made the tides rise and fall. This knowledge represented the very earliest stages of the information the Greeks would need to be a seafaring people. In many of the stories of the Titans, Chronos and Gaia work alone to take power away from Uranus.
The story is usually told that Chronos was the only one of the Titans who was willing to challenge his tyrannical father. Gaia, seeking revenge for the imprisonment of six of her children, pushed him toward revolt.
She armed her son with an adamantine sickle and helped him set a trap. They waited until Uranus came down from the heavens to mate with Gaia, when he would be most vulnerable. This made him the new king of the Titans. In other versions of the story, however, his brothers were willing to offer their help. Four of them took positions on the corners of the earth. When the time came to attack, the four brothers pulled Uranus off of Gaia and held him up to keep them separated.
This gave Chronos space to use his sickle. This sequence of events references Near Eastern mythology, in which the heavens are held up and away from the earth by four massive pillars. There was significant overlap between the mythologies of Mesopotamia , Anatolia, and Greece. Iapetus notes how similar they look, which Percy confirms by admitting that Hyperion was the former's brother. He convinces Iapetus that he was a good Titan while Hyperion was bad who had tried to kill him and other innocent beings.
Iapetus promptly agrees, and stabs Hyperion's bubble with his spear-broom. Later, it is shown that Hyperion reforms somewhere else in Tartarus and guards the Doors of Death with his brother Krios. He hates just guarding the Doors and wants to go to the mortal world. Shortly before Percy, Annabeth and Iapetus arrive, he and Krios had transported the giants, including Enceladus , Polybotes , Alcyoneus , Otis and Ephialtes out of Tartarus through the Doors, along with countless other monsters.
Krios calls Tartarus a "stinking pit," angering Tartarus , who arrives and promptly destroys Hyperion and Krios' bodies, and sucks in their immortal essence into the dark whirlpool on his face. Hyperion was cruel and arrogant, like all of his brothers. Hyperion, however, seemed particularly brutal, like his brother Kronos , and had no qualms about helping re-imprison his Elder Cyclopes and Hekatonkheires brothers in Tartarus yet again, as he viewed them as repulsive and inferior to his Titan race.
Hyperion was also extremely vain, and called himself "The Lord of Light", since the light of day came from the east every morning. Behind his back, however, his siblings called him "Kronos Lite", since he would always follow Kronos's orders without question, and was "basically like Kronos with half the calories and none of the taste. Hyperion was also somewhat of a hypocrite, since in The House of Hades , he claims that he would have wielded the scythe against Ouranos himself, had he had the chance, while in actuality, he was too scared to do so at the time.
The Titan seemed to relish his ability to burst into flames, which made him "the flashiest" of his siblings. Hyperion is described by Percy in The Last Olympian to be muscular, tall and bearded, with fiercely glowing skin "the color of polished pennies" , golden eyes "like miniature suns" with a blinding light. He reminded Percy of Apollo except his light is "harsher. As mentioned in The House of Hades , Hyperion also bears great resemblance to his brother Iapetus , apart from Iapetus's signature color being silver instead of Hyperion's gold.
Hyperion is an extremely powerful Titan. In the old days, when he and his brothers Koios North , Krios South and Iapetus West controlled the four corners of the world, Hyperion was the East - the most powerful of the four, and third in power only to Atlas and Kronos. Theia is Titaness of Splendor and Hyperion's consort, thus making her Helios's mother. At some point, he fell in love with Theia their relationship resulted in the birth of Helios. It is unknown what happened to Theia during the series.
Since Theia didn't appear in the series, Theia presumably died in a unknown circumstance. Hyperion's relationship with his son, Helios is unknown but is it possible that Helios cares for him. He and Percy have a similar hateful relationship. He and Percy fight and he easily got furious; Percy had a mini-hurricane around him, extinguishing Hyperion's light. Soon, the satyrs ' magic transformed him into a tree in The Last Olympian.
In The House of Hades , Percy convinces Iapetus to pierce Hyperion's reforming "bubble", and is later annoyed that Hyperion "doesn't stay dead. Riordan Wiki Explore. Apollo Meg McCaffrey Peaches. We've moved! Ouranos , Gaia. Theia wife and sister. Helios , Eos , Selene. Fan Feed 1 Zagreus 2 Hades 3 Kronos. Universal Conquest Wiki. This page has been moved to Hyperion on Myths and Folklore Wiki. Other names:. Lord of Light, Titan of the east.
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