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Theia
In Greek mythology, Theia (sometimes rendered Thea, Théa or ''Thia''), also called Euryphaessa "wide-shining", is a Titaness. The name ''Theia'' alone means simply "goddess" or "divine"; ''Theia Euryphaessa'' () brings overtones of extent (, ''eurys'', "wide", root: ) and brightness (, ''phaos'', "light", root: φαεσ-). Her brother/consort is Hyperion, a Titan and god of the sun, and together they are the parents of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn).
==Earlier myths==
Hesiod's ''Theogony'' gives her an equally primal origin, a daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Sky).〔Hesiod, ''Theogony'', 132.〕 Robert Graves also relates that later Theia is referred to as the ''cow-eyed Euryphaessa'' who gave birth to Helios in myths dating to Classical Antiquity.〔Graves, Robert, ''The Greek Myths'', 42.a〕〔Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 371; of "cow-eyed, Karl Kerenyi observes that "these names recall such names as Europa and Pasiphae, or Pasiphaessa—names of moon-goddesses who were associated with bulls. In the mother of Helios we can recognize the moon-goddess, just as in his father Hyperion we can recognise the sun-god himself" (Kerenyi, ''The Gods of the Greeks'', 1951, p. 192).〕
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