The Old Gods
Who Were the Titans?
The complex web of Greek mythology is built around the core of Hesiod’s Theogony, which describes how the gods and the world came into being. The Titans were the Old Gods who were overthrown by Zeus and his allies Poseidon, Hades, and his champion Heracles. Thus the Olympian gods were the New Gods who overthrew the old in what has been called “The Clash of the Titans.”
In my previous series, Euhemerus Revisited, I looked at how the pagan theogonies of Greece, Phoenicia, and Babylon were retelling the story of Genesis from the perspective of the rebels who built the Tower of Babel. Mount Olympus is the Greek version of Babel, and Zeus its chief god, was based on Cush, the first King of Babel.
The Titans whom Zeus/Cush rebelled against represented, for the most part, the Patriarchs of the Predeluvian World, and most especially, Noah and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Greek theology turned Noah into Ouranos and his wife Naamah into Gaia or Gi, the same as the Sumerian Ki, both of whom are the Earth goddesses.
In the Greek Theogony time begins with the Flood, and the fight between Ouranos/Noah and Naamah/Gaia immediately after the Flood. There are several prediluvian figures included in Greek mythology, however, this presented a problem because time began, according to Hesiod, with the Flood. Therefore, the Greek priests moved several prediluvian figures into the post-flood chronological context. These include Adam, Eve, Lucifer, Naamah’s father Lamech, as well as Naamah and her brother Tubalcain.
Of the antediluvians, Adam and Eve are imported into the Greek Olympian gods as Zeus and Hera. We’ve said that Zeus was based on Cush, who was also called Picus according to late Roman sources. However, the Greek poets rolled Adam into Cush, thus forming Zeus as a composite with characteristics of both. Adam ate the forbidden fruit attaining enlightenment. Zeus is depicted with his thunderbolt as the enlightened leader of the gods.
Hera is the mother goddess based on Eve, but she is also jealous of the second set of mother goddesses based upon Naamah. These included Athena, who was the sister of Vulcan, recognizable as Naamah’s brother Tubal-Cain, as well as Demeter, Cybele, and Rhea.
Gyges - Ouranos - Noah
The father and leader of the Titans was Gyges, also called Ouranos. In the Anatolian and Turkic languages, “Gyg” or “Kuk” means old man or grandfather. This is a reference to Noah, the leader of the faction, who was loyal to the worship of Yahweh after the flood. In my first article in the Euhemerus series, “The Nakedness of Noah,” I examined evidence that Noah was cuckolded by Ham, whom the Greeks remembered as Kronos.
Gaia - Naamah the Wife of Noah
As I explored in the Euhemerus Revisited series, Naamah was Noah’s wife and the mother of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. In Greek mythology, she is the mother of the other Titans as well as the Gigantes, which means “earth-born”. While many interpret the Titans and the Gigantes as the same group of beings, they were actually two different groups. The Titan War occurred immediately after the Tower of Babel. The Gigantomachy, or war against the Giants, was a recollection of Chedorlaomer’s campaign against the giants of Canaan in Abraham’s time about three centuries later.
In the vase depiction below a Greek artist depicted Gaia as giving birth to Erechthonius, whose name also means “earth-born”. In the later part of the Euhemerus Revisited Series, I looked at the ancient accounts that say Gaia or Naamah was the mother of Gilgamesh the first of the post-flood Nephilim Giants. Erechthonius as depicted below was the Greek name for Gilgamesh, whom they also called Dionysius.
Kronos - Ham
Kronos (or Saturn) was the youngest of the Titan sons of Ouranos. His actions of uncovering his father’s nakedness and receiving a curse on his own sons identify him as the patriarch Ham. At the instigation of his mother Gaia, Kronos overthrew the rule of Ouranos by castrating him, which occurred about 32 years after the Flood on the mountain where the Ark had landed. In the Sumerian Literature, Ham is called the Lord of Arratta, who was later overthrown by Cush and Nimrod, whom the Sumerians called Gashur and En-Mer-Kar. Ham appears to have taken Naamah, his own mother, as his second wife and built the City of Arratta about ten miles south of the Ark site. You can still see it on Google Earth.
Ham was also remembered as the Centaur Chiron who was the most civilized of the centaurs because he was the father of Cush, on whom the Greeks based Zeus. Some depictions of Chiron show him as an African with kinky black hair.
Iapetus - Japheth
Iapetus is the Titan whose name is most obviously Japheth. He was the ancestor of the Greeks, but doesn’t play a large role in their mythology. Some of the prediluvian patriarchs were deified and placed as children of Iapetus, because they need to put them somewhere in the post-flood chronology of the Greeks. Therefore Atlas (Lamech), Prometheus (Lucifer), and Epimetheus (Adam) are made the children of Iapetus.
Titan - Shem
The Greeks depicted Shem as Titan or Oceanus.
Prometheus - Lucifer
The Greek legend of the Titan Prometheus being punished for giving the fire of the gods to man is most likely a reworking of the Genesis account of Lucifer giving the knowledge of good and evil to mankind, and being cursed by Yahweh for his crime.
Epimetheus - Adam
Epimetheus is the brother of Prometheus and is the one who received Pandora from the gods. His name means “afterthought”. His job was to assign virtues to all the creatures at creation, but because he didn’t think ahead he had run out of virtues by the time he got to the humans. Therefore, his older brother Prometheus gave the humans the knowledge of fire instead of virtue. Epimetheus could be a Greek jab at Yahweh the Creator God who, according to them, created humanity without virtue so that Prometheus (Lucifer) had to finish the job of educating them. However, as the husband of Pandora, and sometimes credited with opening the forbidden box, as Adam did when he ate the fruit, Epimetheus is based on the Patriarch Adam.
Pandora
Pandora means “all women” in Greek. The story of Pandora’s Box is the story of Eve in the Garden of Eden. Pandora and Eve were both forbidden to do something. Both were overcome by curiosity and did it anyway, releasing evil and chaos into the world.
Atlas
Robert Bowie Johnson makes the case that Atlas is the Greek memory of Lamech the father of Naamah, and therefore the grandfather of Nimrod. Heracles is trying to get back to the Garden of the Hesperides which belongs to Atlas, where the golden apples are found. Heracles is Nimrod trying to find the lost knowledge of the Way of Cain.
Conclusion
The Old Gods whom the Olympians overthrew were, with only one or two exceptions, based on the Yahweh-worshipping Patriarchs in Genesis. The “New Gods” of Mount Olympus were Cush and his allies, who built the Tower of Babel in opposition to Noah's rule. They were the original Secular Humanists who sought to remake history and the world in their own image.