koios

Updated: May 13, 2025

A by-product of the same activity is the mystic treatment of language: a certain Titan in Hesiod is named Koios. Why? Is this totally absurd? I think not.

Gilbert Murray - Five Stages of Greek Religion

Hail! god-reared daughter of the sea, earth-shoot most dear to bright-haired Leto's children, wide earth's immoveable marvel, who of mortals art called Delos, but of the blessed gods in Olympus the dark earth's far-seen star ... ... For of old time it drifted before the waves and stress of winds from every side; but when she of Koios set foot thereon, as the swift pains of her travailing drew nigh, then verily from roots deep down in earth there sprang upright four pillars with adamantine base, and on their capitals they held up the rock: there was the goddess delivered, and looked upon her blessed brood........

Pindar - The Extant Odes of Pindar