Son of Kronos and Rhea, King of the Gods and Lord of the Universe. Threatened with death at an early age by a jealous and paranoid father, his life was preserved by his mother, and he supplanted his father in what amounts to a palace revolution among the early mythic figures. His image and personality are familiar even today, and it is enough to say that He has represented all that is brash, regal, arrogant, lusty, decisive, willful, dynamic, and splendiferous to many peoples over a very long time. Like many Aryan Sky-Gods, His chief weapon is the thunderbolt.

Son of Kronos and Rhea, Lord of Under-Earth, and ruler of the dead. Wed to Persephone, daughter of Demeter, an occasion which brought about the seasons to Earth.

Son of Kronos and Rhea, principle God of the Sea, in concert with many other spirits, godlings and Deities of that Realm. He also had patronage over horses, and in fact was said to have created them.

A son of Uranus and Gaea (Heaven and Earth), Lord of the Titans, and Ruler of the Universe in beginning times. The father of many of the Olympian Divinities, He swallowed them all as infants, rather than permit one to supplant him as he had supplanted his father. One of his progeny, Zeus, was hidden from him and did, in fact, overthrow his rule and force him to disgorge his other offspring.

A daughter, after a fashion, of Zeus (she is said to have sprung whole from his forehead) and Metis.A warrior Goddess, and a patroness of Kings, rulers, the palace, government, and the City (poulis) in general. She has become inextricably associated with her best-known cult site, Athens, the city to which her name has been given. Her special gift is the tempered wisdom associated with justice and law.

Son of Zeus, and God of warfare and battle. His was an unsavoury repute among the Hellenes; he represented to them the savagery and chaos of battle. His cult was most common among northerners; Epirotes, Makedonians, and Thessalians; and in the south among Spartans.

Son of Zeus, and a Deity of many functions and attributes. He is best known as the Messenger and Herald of the Gods, but he is also a fertility God, a Lord of fortune and fate, and a patron of both merchants and thieves. As Herald he combines patronage of Music and Eloquence, and as Divine Messenger he controls dreams and omens. Quite expectedly, he is also a Protector of travelers. His name refers to boundary stones and landmarks.

A son of Zeus, and God of wine, fruition, and ecstatic celebration. Like Apollo, he was an oracular Deity, and was widely recognized and worshipped with frantic orgiastic rites, especially by women.

Child of Zeus and Hera, craftsman and smith of the Gods and, as is so often the case among Aryan smithy Deities, lame. Among the Hellenes, he was something of a hapless fool, a figure of jest and contempt. This stems from the very strong Classic Mediterranean attitude which held manual labor to be an unworthy thing, fit only for slaves and others of little importance. His lameness is said by some to be from a birth defect which caused Him to be cast down into the Sea (Okeanos) - others aver it to be a result of Zeus casting him off Olympus in a fit of rage, owing to Hephaestos' siding with Hera in an argument. In that both versions involve a catastrophic fall from the heavens, a reference to meteoric iron and/or volcanic ejecta may be implied. He was wed to Aphrodite, a union which caused much cruel jest among the Olympians. In Egypt, He became conflated to a degree with Ptah.

A cthonian river spirit, tutelary to the underground River Styx, the touch of whose waters brought unconciousness (permanent in mortals, temporary to the Gods).

The Earth-Mother herself, A primal being, emergent from of Chaos, and representative of the Earth itself.

Son of Zeus and a mortal, he has a very rich and complex mythology associated with him. As a mortal, his travels and adventures are legendary, and he has become known as the quintessential Hero. His journeys and labors can be seen as an initiatory sequence, in which his Earthly dross is gradually purged from him. His demise is the final act of this process, and on his funeral pyre his Spirit is liberated, and ascends to Olympus where he is admitted to the company of the Gods. He was a popular cult figure throughout the Classic world, and his tale still holds attention today. His favored weapons were the club or maul, and the bow.

Child of Zeus and twin brother of Artemis. A solar God with many attributes and realms of function, His Presence was unendurable to all save Zeus and his mother, Leto. He was before all a purifier, a bringer of justice and Divine Will. He shares with Artemis the attribute of archery, and is often imaged bearing a bow. Another common image has him bearing a lyre, refering to his patronage of music, especially that which proclaims joyous communion with the Gods. He communicates to mankind more directly than any other, through the medium of Oracles; his most famous oracular temple was at Delphi.