Gigantomachie

The gigantomachies (literally “engagements between Giant S”) are current episodes of the Cosmogonie S, and in particular in the Greek Mythologie, with the Titanomachie.

The Greek myth

Causes of the confrontation

Zeus locked up the Titans in the Tartar . Gaïa, their mother, is shown outragée and declared the war with the gods. It sends its sons, the Giants, with the combat.

Preparations

The aggression of Gaïa did not occur directly after the affront. Zeus could thus prepare there. As the Giants were immortal vis-a-vis the gods, Zeus is linked with Alcmène and generated Héraclès.

On the other hand, Gaïa made push a grass which will make his/her children invisible to the eyes of human and immortal to their blows. With the fact of the situation, Zeus prevented Hélios, Séléné and Éos to rise before he discovers itself the grass with the magic effects.

The confrontation

The battle field is located where the Giants live, namely the Phlégra (“burning ground”). The leaders were Eurymédon, Alcyonée and Porphyrion.

The gods gathered essuient a first attack. The Giants advance holding up made torches of trunks of oaks and by catapulting peaks and rocks.

Héraclès attacks in first Alcyonée and bores it of one of its poisoned arrows. The giant being immortal only on his native soil, Héraclès trails it far from his fatherland.
Porphyrion tries to force Héra. Zeus strikes down it and it is completed of a poisoned feature launched by Héraclès.
Éphialtès is destroyed of an arrow in each eye, one stripped by Apollon, the other by Héraclès.
Encelade deserted the battle field, Athéna crushes it by projecting to him the island of Sicily where there remains imprisoned. Its breath of fire leaves the Etna.
Pallas is overcome by Athéna; the goddess skins it and revêt her skin like an armor.
Mimas is buried by Héphaïstos under a mass of fused metal of which there remains prisoner (the Vesuvius).
Polybotès is buried by Poséidon which dispatches to him a piece of the island of Cos which will become a new island: Nisyros.
Hippolyte is embanked by Hermes crowned helmet of Hadès which makes invisible, the Kunée.
Artémis cuts down Gration its arrows.
Dionysos strikes Eurytos with its thyrse.
Clytios is burned by the infernal torches of Hécate.
Armed with their bronze bludgeons, the Moires kill Agrios and Thoas.

Each Giant is completed by the arrows of Héraclès soaked in the poison of the Hydre de Lerne, except the prisoners of the islands.

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