⅟∾ gods
↳ atlas, god of endurance and astronomy.
atlas and his brother menoetius sided with the titans in their war against the olympians, the titanomachy. when the titans were defeated, many of them ( including menoetius ) were confined to tartarus, but zeus condemned atlas to stand at the western edge of gaia ( the earth ) and hold up the heavens on his shoulders, to prevent the two from resuming their primordial embrace. thus, he was atlas telamon, “enduring atlas”, and became a doublet of coeus, the embodiment of the celestial axis around which the heavens revolve.
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