Hyperion was one of the twelve children of gaia (Earth) and uranus (Sky). With his sister, the Titaness theia, Hyperion fathered helios (Sun), selene (Moon) and eos (Dawn).
Hyperion was, along with his son Helios, a personification of the sun, with the two sometimes identified. jhon keat's abandoned epic poem hyperion is among the literary works that feature the figure.
Uranus imprisoned all the children that Gaia bore him, before he was overthrown. According to , Uranus only imprisoned the Hecatoncheires and the Cyclopes but not the Titans, until Gaia persuaded her six Titan sons to overthrow their father Uranus and "they, all but Ocean, attacked him" as Cronus castrated him. Afterwards, in the words of hesoid, Hyperion subjected his sister theia to his love, and fathered on her three children, the lights of heaven; (Sun), (Moon) and (Dawn). As is the case for most of the Titans, there are no myths or functions for Hyperion. He seems to exist only to provide a father for the three celestial deities. As a Titan, one of the oldest generation of gods, Hyperion was a fitting father for these three sky-gods who, as elements of the natural world, must have been conceived of as having come into being near the beginning of the cosmos.
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