Hecatonchires : Briareus
The Hecatonchires ("the hundred-handed") were figures of Greek mythology, giants with a hundred arms and fifty heads. They were children of Gaia and Uranus. Their father threw them into Tartarus, but they were rescued by Cronus and helped him overthrow Uranus by castrating him. After helping Cronus, he threw them back into Tartarus, where they remained, guarded by Campe, until Zeus rescued them. During the War of the Titans, they threw rocks one-hundred at a time at the Titans.Afterwards the Hecatoncheires became the guards of the gates of Tartarus. In the Iliad there is a story, found nowhere else in mythology, that at one point the gods were trying to overthrow Zeus but were stopped when Thetis brought a Hecantocheire to his aid. They are often considered sea-deities, and may be derived from pentekonters, longboats[?] with fifty oarsmen.
They were Briareus ("strong"), Gyges (or Gyes) and Cottu ("son of Cottytus"). Homer also referred to Briareus as Aegaeon ("goatish"), and said he was a marine deity and son of Poseidon.
In Latin, the Hecatonchires were also known as the Centimani.
When the leaves awaken
I'll soon put on my womanhood and marry
When I was born for the first time ? I think
That blinks and blinks on Ballygawley Hill,
FATHER HART. O she is of the faery people.
THE CHILD. One called,
She called again and after that I came.
(All except SHAWN and MARY BRUIN gather behind the priest for
You have not charmed my sight and won from me
I'll turn you from the house.
FATHER HART. No, I will face her.
THE CHILD. Because you took away the crucifix
Unless I will it, where my feet have danced
There something stops him-look how he moves his hands
Be not afraid, the Father is with us,
The adoring Magi in their coats of mail,
And all the nine angelic hierarchies.
(The CHILD kneels upon the settle beside MARY and puts her arms
White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,
Who is the ruler of the Western Host,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no.
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