Introduction to the Titans
By Samuel Warren Shaffer
Titans are what some might call spirits or energy beings which can appear in the form of various animals, people or combinations of both, and which watch over the elements and help lead and assist us in our search for enlightenment.
Following is a brief description of the Titans and their jobs, after which I have a list of Titans from different cultures. The cultures go in the order of, Slavic, Armenian, Hindu, Greek, Norse or German, Celtic and Kymoorian. These lists are far from exhaustive, and there are many more Titans or Gods and Goddesses which are not mentioned here. If you look up what each of these Gods or Goddesses were like though, you will get a pretty good idea about what each Titan archetype or kind of Titan is like. There are also minor Titans in every culture which are apprentices or children of the more major ones; like the Gods of hearths, beer, romance, various kinds of animals etc. When I say so and so or so and so, in the lists I mean to say that those are different Titans which are interchangeable in the way that they either took over the job of the other or that they probably did the same job in another Titan group within the same culture.
The Forest Titan is the God or Goddess of all kinds of forests. Not just the woods but also the forest of space and other dimensions. He is the master of things which you cannot see the end of and which exist in harmony even though they seem to be in endless expanses. He can therefore also be called the God of other worlds; the God of refuge, as also the God of creatures which exist in those endless forests. The Forest Titan brings life where he can and is the gardener of increased complexity within his worlds, dimensions and forests; which in turn can rest under the canopy of reality.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of the Forest – Jarilo, Ara, Prajapati, Artimus or Pan, Baldur, Cernunnos and Eldrid
The Life Titan is both the Titan of Life and Death in their proper seasons. The Life Titan is the Goddess or God of the cyclical and flowing nature of life. She understands that life is like a flowing river which is not made of the same water from moment to moment. She understands that life is a cycle of life and death which in turn brings more life just as particles burst into an eternal moment of light and experience and return to blissful sleep again, awaiting the next experience of infinite nature. She understands that death and life are neither good nor evil and that the non-violence of the peaceful maiden and the sacrifices of the old hag both have their place in the eternal order of things. She flows through everything the Forest Titan does.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of Life – Marana, Anahit or Astighit, Prana or Saraswati, Demeter or Persephone, Fraya or Iduna, Madron or Morgan and Canada
The Wind Titan is both about the wind that blows but also about the breath we take in and out. The wind is the breath of the earth and brings fresh breath to all things that live therein. The Wind Titan knows that breathing is the greatest bliss for those who truly experience it. That having breathed out is like unto the Garden of Eden and having breathed in is like unto the Heavenly Glory. She also whispers in the wind as also she is the power of our breath. Her oxygen brings energy to our blood and whispers revelations in our minds. She is the flowing particles and the electrical force which perpetually flies around the world.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of the Wind – Stribog, Barsamin, Vayu, Hermes, Frigga, Lugh and Alitha
The Mind Titan is more than just the Titan of the brain. The Mind Titan is the God of both Wisdom and Understanding. It is the honor of Kings to seek out wisdom and knowledge and the Mind Titan is the force of reason which enlightens their minds. He is the initiator, the bringer of languages and he prepares the minds of prophets and seers for the lightening of inspiration. He prepares the way by teaching eternal principles so that when the electricity of the brain makes connections they might be made with wisdom and understanding. He teaches about archetypes and mental emanations and how to become one with all dualities in our mind. He reveals how to lay out the story of our lives and to combine ourselves with all our emanations and traverse that abyss to godhood; ultimately seeing the flowing nature of our minds. He is the revealer of mysteries and loves the flowing nature of the mind, for in it he sees endless worlds.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of the Mind – Svetovid, Tir or Nane, Manas, Athena, Wotan, Nuata or Ogma and Dro
The Lightening Titan is the God of all electricity which resides in all things, both in our bodies and in the world around us. He is the bringer of the rain and wields the Lightening-bolt which is the lightening of inspiration and the weapon of the Gods. He is a god of war and peace. He has the most direct power of all the Titans, dwelling continually in the heavens. It is to him we pray for rain and the lightening of inspiration. He has combined all his emanations which is why he is perfectly balanced and gained power over that thing which is always trying to solve imbalance between positive and negative. It is by electricity that all information systems gain intelligence. The Lightening Titan and the Water Titan are always having a friendly quarrel which is how lightening is able to bring the rain. The lightening in the clouds gain a more positive charge than the ground from the water they have taken, and that watery God of the underworld and that Lightening God of the heavens meet in conflict which brings all the elements together and brings life giving water to the earth.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of Lightening – Perun, Vahagn, Indra or Dyeus, Zeus, Thor, Turenn and Barak
The Water Titan is the God of Eden and the Wizard of the underworld. He is a great serpent or dragon, or a creature with many tentacles, which are the tentacles of divine providence. He both helps the Gods forget their troubles in paradise and helps them remember in the waters of their subconscious mind. He accepts the particles of the dead and he is from which all living beings are reborn. He is the God of the endless ocean, both that on earth and the ocean of space, and ultimately the ocean of all things. He nourishes the roots of the world trees and is the fresh spring of wisdom which one gains through the struggles of life. He is cold and wet but revives all living things and brings the fire of the Spirit.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of the Water – Valas, Tsovina, Varuna, Poesidon, Egir, Lir or Manannan and Bensidon
The Fire Titan is the God of direct knowledge; he is the bringer of the light by which we see. His fire is a portal to the heavenly worlds. He is a fire priest who seals those together who burn in eternal love, and who will be held together from life to life eternally by Water’s divine tentacles. The Fire Titan is the God of that fire which burns at the core of the earth and which burst from volcanoes, and he is hence the God of forges and of working metal from the earth. The Fire Titan bestows the spirits of fire upon those who have already been immersed in their subconscious sea. He is the green flame which burns the bodies upon the pyres and which burns on the candle of inspiration, which is a portal into the hidden flame; which is the eternal flame. Each fire has a lifetime and gives us light, heat, cooks our food; but can also burn down forests and houses, however all these are a-moral and are a portal into the hidden flame.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of Fire – Svarog or Dazbog, Mihr, Agni, Hephestus, Loki, Belisama or Brigit and Luz
The Earth Titan is a Goddess or God who is on and in the earth, which we rest upon, upon which all things grow. She is the lover of the Sun and Moon, the gatherer of all the energy which climbs up our spins like the two serpents of Gaia. She is the bearer of all the life upon the earth, all the air we breathe, all the electricity of the Lightening Titan’s thunderbolt. Her hair is the forests and protrusions the mountains; her low spots the seas and within her the underworld. She gathered all the minerals at the beginning of time we needed to live. The Earth Titan is the caretaker and God of all these things. She is the mother in whose womb we were formed, she is the tabernacles or bodies in which we dwell. All are made of her, and it is her energy which she has gained from her lovers that allows life to prosper upon her and in her. All creatures and trees grow up upon her. The Earth Titan is the caretaker of the earth, and her personification.
Gods and Goddesses which are or were Titans of the Earth – Radegast or Zemlya, Amanor, Prthivi, Gaia and Demetr, Sif, Nemed and Nebo
The Spirit Titan is the intelligences which first came into the universe. He and she are the enlightened ones. They are the Gods which reside in the eternal sea and dark mountains of our subconscious minds. They are the flowing intelligences which flow through all things. The Spirit Titan made the lightening-bolt of the Lightening Titan, the earth and all the sea of space dwell within them. He is the grandfather of the all-father; she is the grandmother of the mother Goddess. The Spirit Titan does not have to come earlier in chronological time, but must be one with the particles and intelligences which did. They are the enlightened one throughout all the universes and in all things. It is the love imprinted on the particles of his intelligences when a couple washes and anoints each other’s feet which truly brings them together forever free of all binding. He is in the center of the Titan circle; it is upon him which fire burns and which water washes. It is through his particles that we all experience as if a continuous being when we are really like a river. Life is an eternal flowing of experience, washing our experiencing principles through endless beings in the oceans of spaces and times. The Spirit Titan is the master of all walkers and energy, he is the forger of the mind which the particles make while flowing through us. He is the center of all things; all universes and things which are in space and time and things which are not. However, even though he is the God of all these things, he has reached the state in which he understands that no direct interference is necessary. He only meditates upon it and its eternal bliss and variety in all the eternities, forever and ever.
Gods and Goddesses which are Spirit Titans – Rod, Aramazd, Tvastar or Tangrii, Prometheus or Atin, Buri or Tyr, Dagda and Tan
The Titans Discourse
By Hans Woodman
"I am the Forest Titan. I make Life where I can.”
Life is a song that never ends with many strange and marvelous melodies. Life is a weave with many harmonious patterns of power. This Titan holds the magic of the Forest, the falling leaves, of the driven snow and the coming of leaves and flowers again. He holds the key to the heart of life.
He walks through the forest with a garment of power about him. He is the king on the mountain throne. In ages past he hunted a white stag who would give him a chase but when the eyes of the two met they had perfect love and honor for one another. He is a mighty hunter and a perfect tracker, silent are his feet and perfect his smell.
His rangers are as the Aryans of old, Masters of the bow and lovers of music. Their mountain home lay deep in the shadows of a joyful forest, and few are they who come and see their glory. This Titan gains energy from all the life around him that freely gives it to their master, for he takes care of and protects them.
He is a mighty Wizard for he knows how to use the energy to work many miracles, and is a scholar in all the symbols of the trees. The Forest Titan of Forest Titans has green skin as the canopy of leaves and antlers like a mighty stag. He is the master of bards who tell tales and sing songs, that the many countries through which they travel might have truth abounding in their hearts and long ever for the magic of the woods.
The servants of this Titan have said. “Look hard and you might see a tree spirit. Or listen, for they make strange songs, be silent and have ears to hear for all things have life even the rocks around us. Meditate in the forest and listen to the wind in the trees and you might learn of its ways.
“I am the Wind Titan. Only in the Mind’s eye can I be seen.”
Wind changes many things yet it is invisible. One can imagine its many hands picking things up and throwing them into the sky but none know what it truly looks like save The Mind Titan. Wind is the messenger of the Titans bringing tidings to far off places and wise men. As they hear its voice the world changes around them.
The Wind is constantly moving, bringing the seasons, rain and sunshine. Where it came from and to where it will go is impossible to know but to the Mind Titan. It carries travelers over waves and birds through the clouds. The powerful Magi of the past wore cloaks of feathers to help them move from world to world for the wind is master of all secret portals.
As Han and Dro came out into the sunshine of the day though blind at first knew beyond doubt they were free for they felt the breeze upon their faces. In ancient times powerful men went to the top of their towers to speak into the wind and the wind would bring it to the ears of the gods. Wind blows out little flames and makes large fires bigger.
Constantly moving she spines giant whirlwinds and soft breezes. In ages past their were four for each side of the earth and the effects of their stones are still felt upon the earth, constantly pushing against each other. As a storm gathers green on the horizon and the Wind is silent in the air.
Gather your family and go underground that the tempest might pass over you. For the evil Titans use the wind to their advantage to the sorrow of her who ever moves it.
The servants of this Titan have said. “Go and enjoy the breeze in your hair and see what the Winds of change will bring you, or maybe even where it might sweep you to, perhaps the edge of the earth or to another world.”
"I am the Lightning Titan. I am the Water current that is Motivation."
The Lightning Titan is not the water, yet he moves people like the waves of the sea. He fills them with inspiration to movement, that they are not stagnant like a rotting pond. He flows through water like a stinging tongue, exiting its living energies. He is the glory of the planets for angels truly have countenances as lightning, who bring inspiration to men.
If a man is walking in the dark forest and a flash of lightning strikes, he is lighted for a moment and can move on a few steps. Likewise, in ancient times the masters of the mind would call "come, come out and see the storm!" Then the village would come to watch for the light of the lightning breathed from the dragons of the sky. And the man of the wood would joy in the life of the forest and sorrow only a little in the sacrifice for it.
As man has walking on the edge of the meadow he has seen the light strike the lone tree making the light of fire. First came the discovery of water, than lightning down from heaven bestowing fire on man. Thus the round was complete making fire's reflection. This is why a scarred tree is his symbol. A tree is scarred but a forest is saved!
The servants of this Titan have said, "If a storm is coming nigh, travel along it and receive its inspiration. Thus we see the mind Titan is preparation, the Lightning inspiration, the fire is revelation, and the water swims through and basks in them all."
"I am the Fire Titan. I am the Earth's core."
The Fire Titan is the earths core because the Fire Titan is the messenger of the Hidden Fire that is in her heart. The Hidden Fire is pure intelligence and light giving all knowledge. Each Man is a vessel or carrier of it. He is given the flame at his birth, then he carries it as a lantern through his mortality. Once he dies it is given back to the earth, than the earth gives it to another.
The flame gives intelligence, so a man may gain the memories and knowledge of another through it, if it is unlocked. The Fire Titan is the holder of the Key, the Key to the Earth's heart. In ages gone, the Fire Titan has manifest the fire's past lives to its bearers by way of the green candle. The Earth's heart burns with a burning heat that is the essence of the Fire Titan, yet the source of all of it, is the Sun.
The Sun is the father of the Fire, and the Earth its Mother, thus they are husband and wife bound in eternal love. So we see there is a spark that shines within you giving you intelligence and teaching you right from wrong. The Fire must pass from life to life, into the earth and out of the earth again and again until it has experienced all things, than it shines forth as a conduit of light from the heavenly spheres. The carrier of the hidden Fire and a Holder of the Secret Fire is different.
I have already talked about the carriers of it, that is all mankind, but I will now tell you about the Holders of it. The Holder's heart is made into a conduit as the center of the earth, shining forth into a day spring of everlasting light and knowledge. The righteous immortals and Wizards in Ages past have been Holders of it. So we see the Fire Titan is the Titan of this fire and the Key bearer to unlock it secrets. He is the high priest of the Fire Temple. The Fire Temples where Pillar circles manifest the secrets of the stars and in the center stands the fire alter that is a symbol of the heavenly light.
The servants of this Titan have said. "Sit by the camp fire at night, look at the glowing on the trees around, and look at the passing stars. Feed the fire all night and while looking into it meditate upon your collective ancestral memories, and your true nature will unfold before your eyes like a book ready to be read. In meeting the Magi stand around the fire, themselves being the pillars, looking into the fire that is the symbol of Gods Celestial light, that is the center of all things.
“I am the Spirit Titan. One tree is not a Forest.”
The Forest is a place were all kinds of life live in harmony and walkers walk together. The Spirit teaches us we were not meant to walk the road of life alone. Like the bee we are made to work together. Life is hard but worth it. We work all the days of our lives in the field of the Earth and when the day is done we come together.
Sad is the man who works alone and who has no friend or family to talk to at the end of the day. The perfect city of light is a place where people are one, constantly communicating and rejoicing with one another in intelligence. The energy of man is housed in the belly and as men clasp hands in fellow ship they transmit energy to each other in the covenant of fellowship.
The Spirit stone is in the center of the Titan circle and communicates with all. He is no one color, he is as many colors as the stars above. Titans make stones to prolonging life. But the Spirit Titan’s stone is made to keep him from being born until his mission is done. When God subdues all evil powers, then the alter in the center of the circle will be broken and the Spirit Titan shall come forth.
We shall know him for he shall be sitting under the lone tree of the earth on a grassy hill playing a flute, that that tree might not be alone. And behold the whole earth shall then be a forest. The servants of this Titan have said, “prepare now for the person you want to be. Remember perfect honesty and love is a requirement to remain in that day.”
“I am the Life Titan. The Winds of change, not even I can change.”
Life always adapts to the changes of the earth and sky carried by the winds. Life’s memories carry with it a record of disaster and gloom. Floods that cover the earth, fires that burn the forest and earth quakes that rend mountains.
And yet life is always renewed in a constant springing of color and perseverance. Age after age it finds joy in opposition and blooms again more powerful than before. Life runs in the heart and all creation rejoices. Creation is amazing! Life is good and should be savored with celebration! This Titan in all Ages past has had a halo of blue light in her hair.
She is beautiful above all and her hand is gentle upon delicate things. She flies down from the midst of heaven riding a white swan of glory to lead the seekers of truth. The over mind has always envied her powers most and cursed himself when he could not obtain them. For she has a gentle and precious understanding only the true and humble may know. She is the master of the life moon that goes around Uranus. Every time a life Titan is made the star of the magi lights up and the moon gains life again, of purple, yellow and white flowers.
The servants of this Titan have said. “don’t rush yourself, just do the best within you. And like the slow tortes you will come to the end at last and find a new beginning.”
“I am the Mind Titan. I prepare for the Lightning of inspiration.”
The Mind Titan is the teacher of understanding, showing men to where they might look for truth. He is a translator of languages bringing men into understanding one with another. He holds the key to detecting the wind and knowing truth from afar.
Long ago he made many Meta machines knowing all the workings of the human brain. He is the guider of the Titan ship, and without him it could not go as fast as the light of the sun. He was awoken as the pain of a pin prick as Han the Magi a point of light. He is best at hearing as Han is at seeing. He is a master of physical sciences and can teach people practical things. He is a portal of understanding for people to look upon the doings of nature.
He prepares people for sudden inspiration. The evil Mind Titan is the Overmind, who makes people ignorant for personal gain where the good Mind Titan enlightens people who love him as their Teacher and Magi.
The servants of this Titan have said. “Practice and work even if it is hard at first. For people love to do what they are good at, and once you have mastered a principle, power and joy shall flow unto you.
"I am the Water Titan. Only by being what Fire is not can I gain its identity."
The water is not fire, yet it reflects its light as an eye sparkling and shimmering in the night. Water is the wisdom at the bottom of the well brought up unto light. Wisdom can only be received by light, and the sacrifice of an eye is the life of truth.
Only by the roots of the forest can this Water be gained, guarded by giants for ages remained. This water flows into the sea, and is freely given as wisdom to the giant fishes always hiding from the faces of man. In life he was poisoned, pierced and hung to a tree, yet birds fed him. So often time he will return to earth looking like an old man in a hat.
Yet the Titan of Titans still looks down in order. Water is the final grave of the dead. The evil Titan of death is the opposite of this Titan. Water is the grave yet the Water Titan's power is to bear him up with fire and the Spirit. This Titan is the master of those who live according to God in the spirit.
His armies shall break forth in the last days as a forest of spears and a consuming wave upon the evil shores of the wicked! A spear this Titan bears that never misses, for his path is sure. He wisps on the unsettled waves for a sea king he is forever! He may move the waters and no one knoweth for the ocean is a mystery to them. Wings on his helm he wears for wind is his friend. He hath the tools to navigate the stars and sail among holy places.
His tower hath an ever burning torch upon it that it may guide men unto him. It pointed to the west that men may sail east again. But if men sail to the immortal west they must follow the most cherished western star, out of his bay and follow it continually until it lead them out of this world, on the road of the Gods. There await shining white shores that darkness never sees and a city with many towers. In the sky shines the greatest of all burning planets, with a ring ever shining in the reflection of sea over which the water bears up stormy ships as countless as clouds.
This Titan's servants have said, "if a wise man looketh at the reflection of the flame, in the water of the well, he might see a truth, what mighty secret to tell!"
“I am the Earth Titan. A kind act is etched on the Spirits of all involved.”
The stones and clay of the Earth is the medium upon which things are recorded. If you draw a symbol in the sand the symbol will remain in its memory even after it blows away. The blood that beats in your heart is made of Iron and like the sand will remember the writings on the tables of your heart and therefore ultimately will be carried with you throughout Eternity.
The Evil Clay Titan is opposite of this Titan, for he is the Titan of broken promises. As man digs clay out of the river beds each good particle has promise of becoming a masterpiece of Literature, the holder of a family crest or pottery. As a pot is rejected and thrown back to the ground it cannot fulfill it’s purpose being broken, unless a caring potter picks it up, crushes it into small pieces and puts it back into his unorganized matter, to be made a new creation.
In ancient days people made baskets out of reeds by the river. One day there was a boy who had an old dieing mother who needed water to cool her fever. So this wise lad took a basket and administer mud to it, so it could hold water. His mother lived and one day was walking to the river to get more water. Suddenly she stumbled just a little and dropped it into the blazing fire.
Disappointed she told her son she had ruined his invention. “That is okay, I will make another one,” he said. He went down to the river and when he came back everyone was starring at something strange. It was his old basket that was now a hard bowl. So we see the Earth is made solid by fire for the purpose of holding water. As the fire swells within her it spews upon the earth making great mountains and the rivers cut great valleys. Truly the earth is our home!
The servants of this Titan have said. “Remember it is never worth it to offend your brother. After you have lost people in your life by this means you are never quit whole again. Perform kind acts unceasingly! When someone comforts you, helps you, or gives you something, even if it is small think of the gratitude that swells up in your heart. That is the greatest kind of power, and when someone does something for you just think how much Gods hands have done and do them for another.
