Tartarus (Ταρταρος) was the personification of Tartarus (Area).
Birth : He was born from Chaos with Gaea, Aether, Erebos, Nyx, Ananke and Chronos.
Child: After Uranus died, Gaea and Tartarus had a child. Their child was Typhon, the storm spirit. Gaea sent Typhon to destroy Zeus but is defeated and imprisoned under Mt. Etna
Current: Tartarus currently resides in Tartarus, though not because of punishment. He stays and keeps it intact.
Children:
Other Names: The Stormy Pit
(Primordial & Chthonic Deity) No.3 god of the deepest/darkest parts of underworld (Tartarean pit)(The Abyss)
Underworld Entity (Τάρταρος), the primeval god of the dark, stormy pit of Hades[1]sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures#Chthonic_deities
Τάρταρος (Tártaros)[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures The god of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld, the Tartarean pit (which is also referred to as Tartarus itself).
Tartarus (/ˈtɑːrtərəs/; Greek: Τάρταρος Tartaros),[1] in ancient Greek mythology, is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans.[2] As far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens,[2] Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato in Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls were judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Like other primal entities (such as the Earth, Night and Time), Tartarus was also considered to be a primordial force or deity.
In Greek mythology, Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born.
In the Greek poet Hesiod‘s Theogony, c. 700 BC, Tartarus was the third of the primordial deities, following after Chaos and Gaia (Earth), and preceding Eros,[3] and was the father, by Gaia, of the monster Typhon.[4] According to Hyginus, Tartarus was the offspring of Aether and Gaia.[5]
As for the place, Hesiod asserts that a bronze anvil falling from heaven would fall nine days before it reached the earth. The anvil would take nine more days to fall from earth to Tartarus.[6] In The Iliad (c. 700 BC), Zeus asserts that Tartarus is “as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth.”
While according to Greek mythology the realm of Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants. When Kronos came to power as the King of the Titans, he imprisoned the one-eyed Cyclopes and the hundred-armed Hecatonchires in Tartarus and set the monster Campe as its guard. Zeus killed Campe and released these imprisoned giants to aid in his conflict with the Titans. The gods of Olympus eventually triumphed. Kronos and many of the other Titans were banished to Tartarus, thoughPrometheus, Epimetheus, Metis and most of the female Titans were spared (according to Pindar, Kronos somehow later earned Zeus’ forgiveness and was released from Tartarus to become ruler of Elysium). Another Titan, Atlas, was sentenced to hold the sky on his shoulders to prevent it from resuming its primordial embrace with the Earth. Other gods could be sentenced to Tartarus as well. Apollo is a prime example, although Zeus freed him. The Hecatonchires became guards of Tartarus’ prisoners. Later, when Zeus overcame the monster Typhon, he threw him into “wide Tartarus”.[7]
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Personal Information
Name | Tartarus aka. Tartaros (Abyss) |
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Profession | (Abyss) |
Siblings
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Ourea (Primordial Deity) 10 gods of mountainsasdasds | |||
Uranus (Primordial Deity) god of the heavens (Father of the Titans)asdasds | |||
Pontus (Primordial Deity) god of the seaasdasds |
Half-Siblings
Children
Children-in-Law
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Echidna (half-woman, half-snake)asdasds |
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