10 GODS so Powerful Even the Other GODS Feared Them - Greek Mythology Explained
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Hey everyone, Welcome to Mythology Explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss ten of the most powerful gods in Greek mythology, gods so powerful that their powers often dwarfed those of the other deities in the Greek mythos.Just a quick comment before we get started: this list isn't ranked and is by no means comprehensive, so let us know in the comments who else you think deserved to be included. Also, this video will only feature male deities; we'll make a separate video for female deities later on. And lastly, the final five entries are the same as the ones in the top 5 version of this video, so if you've already watched the other one, the halfway point might be as far as you go.Let's get into it.Starting off our list is Hyperion.Called "The One on High" and "He Who Walks above", Hyperion was one of the 12 first-generation titans born to the primordial deities Uranus, the personification of the sky, and to Gaia, the personification of the earth. His consort was Theia, called "Far-Shining", another of the 12 first-generation Titans, and together, they had three children" Selene (the "Moon"), Helios (the "Sun"), and Eos (the "Dawn").Of Hyperion's three children, Eos most followed in her father's footsteps in that she produced many of the other manifestations of the material world, including: Boreas, the North wind, Notus, the South wind, Zephyr, the West wind, and all the stars in the sky, including Eosphorus, better known by his Latin name, Lucifer, the Morning Star.Hyperion was a solar deity. Thus he was identified with his son, Helios, and later with Apollo. One thought is that Hyperion's original role was to oversee the cycle in which his children shined in the sky. Like the other Titans that fought against the Olympians during the Titanomachy, Hyperion was cast into the depths of Tartarus, the cavernous abyss beneath the earth. The only exception to this was Atlas, who was saddled with a special punishment, condemned to bear the vault of the heavens upon his shoulders for eternity. Coming in at number 2 is Hades.The Lord of the Dead and the ruler of the Underworld, Hades and his five siblings, Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Poseidon, and Zeus, were born to Cronus and Rhea, two of the first-generation Titans. Like his brothers and sisters, Hades was swallowed by his father at birth. Cronus did this to forestall his usurpation at the hands of one of his children the same way he himself usurped his own father. Zeus, the youngest, of course wasn't swallowed. He was raised in secret and made a triumphant return when the bloom of manhood was upon him. Hades and his siblings were rescued when Zeus caused Cronus to disgorge them, so began the Titanomachy, the cataclysmic 10 year war that raged between the gods and the titans.