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Iapetus (Ιαπετος)

Translation: Wound

The Wounding Pillar of the West

Iapetus was one of the elder brothers who assisted Kronus in defeating Uranus, as he was the west pillar who held one of Uranus' legs. He's known as the Titan of wounds or piercing wounds with a spear. Not much is known about him except that he was imprisoned in Tartarus by Zeus after the war, but realized and became the titan god of Mortality.


Family; Iaptus parents were Gaia and Uranus. While his sibling were The Cyclopes, The Gigantes, The Hecatoncheires, The Erinyes, The Meliae, and the other titans such as, Crius, Kronus, Tethys, Themis, Hyperion, Herus, Oceanus, Creus, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Atlas. He married his niece Clymene, the daughter of Oceanus and Thethys, with whom he had two sons Prometheus and Epimetheus, creators of mankind and mortal creatures.

Tributes; The symbol of Iapetus includes the west pillar, and the symbol of the setting sun, as the sun sets in the west.


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