Krios Voyage (opening)

“And Eurybia, bright goddess, was joined in love to Crius and bare great Astraeus, and Pallas, and Perses who also was eminent among all men in wisdom.”

                                                                                        (Theogony, 375-377)

Chapter 6: Gaia-The Tree of Life

Once again Krios found himself sailing along the icy cold darkness of the Sea of Misery, following the current and that faint tug from the South that always seemed to be beckoning. Krios never mentioned it to the others, not wanting to concern them with something he felt he had under his control, he figured it was the main reason why his elliptical orbits went so much further than the other two. He always found it strange that whenever he was close to what he deemed the ‘South Pole’, the area at the rear of Ouranos that had detached from the umbilical, leaving a ‘gelasin’, a slight ‘dimple’, his entire structure would automatically align itself towards that Pole, curving his body in perfect unison with that center, his magnetic field in perfect harmony with that imaginary southern hub. He had secretly designated this point of attraction the ‘South’ with the knowledge on hand that Coeus had dubbed the other end the ‘North’. It appeared that Coeus too had an irresistible attraction towards a certain area of Ouranos, what he officially named the ‘North Pole’, after himself, the pillar of the North. Krios loved Coeus more than anything else in the Universe, maybe excepting for his sister, but he did have a habit of needing to stoke his own ego, always giving himself one title or another Krios was sure only to point out his ‘differences’ from the other Titans.   

Krios thanked the Mother every day that fortune brought Coeus to Phoebe’s and His own life. All sayings have their origination point, so mentioning that ‘It was love at first sight’ is no understatement! Coeus rivalled Phoebe in both size and brilliance, maybe a little bit larger than she was, while she was probably a little brighter than his shimmering luminosity could accomplish. And as Rhea liked to say, “theirs was a match made in heaven”, which was her way of belittling her own, let’s just say, not so perfect relationship with Cronos. Krios himself was did not share their magnificence, being much smaller in stature and quite dimmer than either of the others, and even though he was considered the smallest of the Titans he was not the least massive, that title belonged to Mnemosyne, who although almost twice Krios’ size she still weighed less than him. Phoebe had explained to him that because Mnemosyne basically lived over the Helium Lake named after her, and therefore having a diet based exclusively on just that, Helium which barely added any weight while simultaneously bloating her structure like a balloon, whereas everyone knew how much Krios liked to munch on those hard to find metals, and the more he hunted down and consumed the heavier he got, without seeming to ‘grow’ whatsoever.

The other six Titans were no less remarkable…

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