Cottus · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

TheogonyClassical · Greek

Three monstrous sons of Earth and Heaven, each with a hundred arms and fifty heads, hidden away by their father, later bound by Cronos, and finally freed by the Olympians to help defeat the Titans.

There Gyes and Cottus and great-souled Obriareus live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the aegis.

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And again, three other sons were born of Earth and Heaven, great and doughty beyond telling, Cottus and Briareos and Gyes, presumptuous children.

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But when first their father was vexed in his heart with Obriareus and Cottus and Gyes, he bound them in cruel bonds, because he was jealous of their exceeding manhood and comeliness and great size:

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