Omphal os (Navel) Greek The stone swallowed by Cronus, one of the Titans, thinking that it was his son Zeus.
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Omphal os (Navel) Greek The stone swallowed by Cronus, one of the Titans, thinking that it was his son Zeus. The stone was set up at Delphi and people came to worship it as the center, or navel, of the Earth.
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- Poseidon Greek Sea god and one of the Olympian gods; son of Cronus and Rhea; brother of Zeus, Hades, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia; husband The Roman goddess Pomona displays her fruits of plenty in the painting by French artist Nicholas Fouche (1653-1733).
- Hestia (Hearth) Greek Goddess of the hearth and fire; eldest daughter of Cronus and Rhea; sister of Zeus and Hera; one of the 12 Olympian gods.
- Cyclopes (1) (Singular: Cyclops; Round-eyed) Greek Three sons of Uranus and Gaia, large and strong, each with one eye in the middle of his forehead; siblings of the Hecatoncheires, hundredhanded giants, and the younger Titans.
- Iphicles Greek Halfbrother of the hero Heracles; son of Amphitryon, a prince of Tiryns, and his wife, Alcmene, who was a daughter of the king of Mycenae; husband to Automedusa, and later, to the youngest daughter of King Creon of Thebes.
- Medusa Greek One of the three Gorgons, the only one who was not immortal; her sisters were Stheno and Euryale.