Koios

Κοιος





Koios (or Coeus) was one of the Titans, the giant sons and daughters of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaia (Earth). He was the Titan of Intellect and the Poles. An alternate name for Koios was Polos (meaning "of the northern pole".)



He and his brothers ambushed their father when he descended to lie with Gaia. Koios, his brothers Hyperion, Iapetus and Krios were posted at the corners of the world, where they seized hold of him and held him fast, while Kronos castrated him with a sickle. Koios stood at the north his brothers stood at the west, east and south respectively. Koios, as god of the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved, was probably also a god of heavenly oracles, just as his wife Phoebe presided over the oracles of the axis of earth Delphi-a common inherited by their grandson Apollo.

Along with the other Titans, Coeus was overthrown by Zeus and other Olympians. After the Titan War, he and his brothers were banished into Tartarus by Zeus.