the third race of beings created by gaea and uranus were the titans they were born huge and powerful like their elder brothers but they were not as ugly they were twelve in number: six males and six females
the titans set about creating things like the moon the seas mountains forests and plains they married each other and gave children became the lesser gods and goddesses of all the natural features of the earth for example the first two titans were oceanus and tethys oceanus fomed the ocean that surrounded the earth formed the his sister tethys who gave birth to the three great rivers known to the greks including the nile in egypt they also had more than three thousand other children their sons were called oceanids and their daughters were nymphs or oceanids each became the minor god or goddess of a river stream spring lake or pone