Tethys
Greek · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Titaness of fresh water, consort of Oceanus, mother of waters.
Parentage
- father: UranusHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
- mother: GaiaHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Achelous: Hesiod: Oceanus and TethysHesiod, Theogony 337–345 (primary)
- Asopus: Oceanus and TethysApollodorus, Library 3.12.6 (primary)
Domains
- fresh waters
Powers
- Bears the rivers and Oceanid nymphs to Oceanus
- Nurses and nurtures the divine generation
Relations
- sibling: CoeusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: CriusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: CronusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: HyperionFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: IapetusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: MnemosyneFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: OceanusFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: PhoebeFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: RheaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: TheiaFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: ThemisFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Uranus & Gaia) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: The ErinyesFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- father: UranusHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
- mother: GaiaHesiod, Theogony 133–138 (primary)
- counterpart of: TethysThe hymn addresses this deity in an Orphic ritual context; Greek genealogy is not imported.Orphic Hymns, 21 (Thomas Taylor numbering; modern hymn 22) (primary)
- child: AchelousHesiod, Theogony 337–345 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Hesiod, Theogony 136, 337 (primary)