Editing Theia (section)

== Family ==
Early accounts gave her a primal origin, said to be the eldest daughter of [[Gaia]] (Earth) and [[Uranus (mythology)|Uranus]] (Sky).<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D104 132&ndash;138]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D3 1.1.3]; Gantz, p. 10; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA37 p. 37]; Caldwell, p. 37 on lines 133&ndash;137; Tripp, s.v. Theia; Grimal, s.v. Theia; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DT%3Aentry+group%3D7%3Aentry%3Dtheia-bio-1 s.v. Theia].</ref> She is thus the sister of the [[Titans]] ([[Oceanus]], [[Crius]], [[Hyperion (Titan)|Hyperion]], [[Iapetus]], [[Coeus]], [[Themis]], [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]], [[Phoebe (Titaness)|Phoebe]], [[Tethys (mythology)|Tethys]], [[Mnemosyne]], [[Cronus]], and sometimes of [[Dione (Titaness)|Dione]]), the [[Cyclopes]], the [[Hecatoncheires]], the [[Giants (Greek mythology)|Giants]], the [[Meliae]], the [[Erinyes]], and is the half-sister of [[Aphrodite]] (in some versions), [[Typhon]], [[Python (mythology)|Python]], [[Pontus (mythology)|Pontus]], [[Thaumas]], [[Phorcys]], [[Nereus]], [[Eurybia (mythology)|Eurybia]], and [[Ceto]]. By her brother-husband Hyperion, she is the mother of [[Helios]], [[Selene]], and [[Eos]].<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371 371&ndash;374]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D2%3Asection%3D2 1.2.2]; Scholia on [[Pindar]], ''Isthmian'' [https://scaife.perseus.org/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg5034.tlg001d.perseus-grc1:5.2/ 5.2 (Drachmann, pp. 242&ndash;243)]; Gantz, p. 30; Hard [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA43 p. 43]; Morford, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ecGXcMRAPXcC&pg=PA40 p. 40]; Kerenyi, p. 22; Tripp, s.v. Theia; Grimal, s.v. Theia; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DT%3Aentry+group%3D7%3Aentry%3Dtheia-bio-1 s.v. Theia].</ref> 

[[Robert Graves]] relates that Theia is referred to as the ''cow-eyed Euryphaessa'' who gave birth to [[Helios]] in myths dating to [[classical antiquity]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Greek Myths|last=Graves|first=Robert|publisher=Penguin Books|year=1960|isbn=978-0143106715|location=Harmondsworth, London, England|pages=42a}}</ref><ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D371 371-374];  of ''"cow-eyed"'', [[Károly Kerényi]] observes, "these names recall such names as [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] and [[Pasiphae]], or Pasiphaessa—names of moon-goddesses who were associated with [[Bull (mythology)|bulls]]. In the mother of Helios we can recognize the moon-goddess, just as in his father [[Hyperion (mythology)|Hyperion]] we can recognise the sun-god himself" (Kerényi, ''The Gods of the Greeks'', 1951, p. 192).</ref>