Coeus- Greek TitanTitan"Titan of Intelligence"

The Pillar of the North

Among the first Titans born to Gaia and Uranus, Coeus stood at the northernmost corner of creation. When the Titans raised heaven from earth, four brothers took positions at the world's corners to hold it aloft. Coeus's station was the north — the cosmic axis, the fixed point around which the constellations wheeled. The pole that never moves while the stars circle endlessly around it.

Consort of Phoebe

Coeus took his sister Phoebe, bright Titaness of the moon, as his consort. Together they produced two daughters. Asteria, goddess of falling stars, drew the desire of Zeus himself — but she refused him. She turned herself into a quail and flung herself into the Aegean, where she became a barren, floating island. Leto, her sister, had no such escape from divine attention: Zeus lay with her, and Hera's jealousy followed. Hera forbade every land from sheltering Leto, and the pregnant goddess wandered the earth in labor until she reached Asteria's island — Delos, the floating rock with nothing to lose — and there gave birth to Apollo and Artemis. In gratitude, Zeus anchored Delos to the sea floor, and the barren rock became a holy island.

The Titanomachy and Tartarus

When the Titans warred against the Olympians, Coeus fought alongside his brothers through ten years of conflict that shook the foundations of the world. The Cyclopes forged thunderbolts for Zeus, and the hundred-handed Hecatoncheires hurled volleys of boulders that broke the Titan lines. Defeated, Coeus and his brothers were cast into Tartarus, bound in darkness far beneath the earth — the Titan of the north pole imprisoned as far from his wheeling stars as the cosmos would allow.