After Poseidon was born, his father, Cronus, attempted to eat him, but he was saved by his brother, Zeus. In other versions, his mother saved him and he was raised by Telchines.

Nikon, or Nicon, was not really a god, but was a Telchine, which were sea spirits native to the island of Rhodes. Nikon and the other Telchines were worshipped as gods though in the town of Lalysos, Kamiros, and Lindos.

Most would say Poseidon was swollowed at birth, but according to others, he was concealed by Rhea, after his birth, among a flock of lambs, and his mother pretended to have given birth to a young horse, which she gave to Cronos to devour.

A well in the neighbourhood of Mantineia, where this is said to have happened, was believed, from this circumstance, to have derived the name of the "Lamb's Well," or Arne.

According to Tzetzes the nurse of Poseidon bore the name of Arne; when Cronos searched after his son, Arne is said to have declared that she knew not where he was, and from her the town of Arne was believed to have received its name.

According to others, again, he was brought up by the Telchines at the request of Rhea.

There are two main versions to the myth of Aphrodite's birth, one, that she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione: in this any son or daughter of Zeus (Dionysus, Apollo, Artemis, Athena) would be a brother or sister of Aphrodite.

In another Aphrodite is the "daughter" of Ouranos (Heaven) born from his blood as he was castrated by Cronus - this would make her a sibling of the Titans (Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Cronus, Theia, Rheia, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys) the Elder Cyclops (Brontes, Steropes, and Arges) as well as the Hecatoncheir (Kottos, Gyes and Briareos) born also from the blood of Ouranos were the Erinyes, and the Giants, as well as Telchines, the Phaeacian men and Aetna.

Uranus came every single night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod names the Titans, six sons and six daughters, the one-hundred-armed giants (Hecatonchires) and the one-eyed giants, the Cyclopes. Uranus imprisoned Gaia's youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest of the Titans, was willing. From the blood which spilled from Uranus onto the Earth came forth the Gigantes, the three avenging Furies - the Erinyes - Meliae, the ash-tree nymphs and according to some, the Telchines. After Uranus was deposed, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. Uranus and Gaea then prophesied that Cronus in turn was destined to be overthrown by his own son, and so the Titan attempted to avoid this fate by devouring his young.