Cottus
deity figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Briareos · Gyes · Obriareus · the Hundred-Handers
in the texts
Theogony
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.
And again, three other sons were born of Earth and Heaven, great and doughty beyond telling, Cottus and Briareos and Gyes, presumptuous children.
There Gyes and Cottus and great-souled Obriareus live, trusty warders of Zeus who holds the aegis.
From their shoulders sprang a hundred arms, not to be approached, and fifty heads grew from the shoulders upon the strong limbs of each, and irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their great forms.