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- Hecatoncheires – Mythopedia
The Hecatoncheires, also called the “Hundred-Handers,” were three children of Gaia and Uranus, named Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges With fifty heads and one hundred arms each, these creatures were a force to be reckoned with and played an important role in the war between the Titans and Olympians
- Uranian Cyclopes - Mythopedia
While the Hecatoncheires used their hundred arms to bury the Titans under a barrage of stones, the Cyclopes made invincible weapons and armor for the Olympians To Zeus they gave “the glowing thunderbolt and lightning”; [13] to Hades they gave a helmet (probably the helmet of invisibility, featured most famously in the myth of Perseus
- Gaia – Mythopedia
The progenitor of most of the Greek deities, Gaia gave birth to the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the monstrous beings known as the Hecatoncheires Through the prolific Titans, who each had many children, Gaia became the grandmother of countless mythical figures (including the Olympians )
- Zeus - Mythopedia
He freed the Cyclopes, a race of powerful one-eyed giants, and the Hecatoncheires, primordial beasts with a hundred hands each, from their prison in Tartarus Conceived by Uranus and Gaia (just like the Titans), the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires were so monstrous that when they were born, Uranus tried to stuff them back into Gaia’s womb
- Giants - Mythopedia
One writer described the Giants as snake-haired; another (probably confusing the Giants with the Hecatoncheires) claimed that they had a hundred arms each Rarely, the Giants were even depicted as beasts such as lions or bulls (see below) Northern frieze from the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi (ca 525 BCE) showing the Gigantomachy
- Uranus – Mythopedia
Uranus fathered the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the monstrous Hecatoncheires His rule over the heavens ended, however, when his son Cronus overthrew him at the dawn of time Unlike the Olympian deities , Uranus was never directly worshipped by the Greeks; he was a distant, inscrutable being, ultimately more a force of nature than a defined
- Hera – Mythopedia
In another myth, Hera and several other Olympians revolted against Zeus While the king of the Olympians was asleep, Hera and her allies stole his thunderbolts and bound him tightly But Zeus was ultimately saved by the sea goddess Thetis (the mother of Achilles) and Briareus, one of the hundred-handed creatures known as the Hecatoncheires
- Tartarus – Mythopedia
Later, Uranus’ son Cronus imprisoned the terrible Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes (his brothers) in Tartarus until they were freed by Zeus and helped defeat Cronus Finally, Zeus imprisoned Cronus and the other Titans in Tartarus, posting the Hecatoncheires as their guards
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