Coeus, God of the Diviners and Father of the Prophets

Coeus, God of the Diviners and Father of the Prophets

Usually in divination, we work with the collaboration of spirits and entities that contact us from different levels to manifest in us their knowledge of the future. Whether they are Deities, spirits, deceased, ancestral forces or others, all of them give us their wisdom, even though it is unfortunate that most have a total ignorance of the forces with which they work. This is due in large part to the lack of seriousness and mysticism that divination suffers today, from what we can blame these “wise teachers” and their rapid learning courses where they promise to completely dominate the art of divination in only 2 or 3 months, and where they focus only on repeating textually the procedures and theoretical symbolism of a book with zero emphasis on what is really important, such as concentration, the development of clairvoyance and contact with the afterlife.

Trying to predict the future and good fortune, without the help of entities more experienced than us, because "we work with our own energy" is just as interesting as self-medicate and not go to the doctor, because you read a medical manual some time ago and you think that this qualifies you to be a doctor.

The human being is born being a seer by nature, a capacity that is lost as we mature and develop other qualities, few and perhaps very few families who do today the possible (according to the folklore that governs them) to keep these qualities active in the younger household.

The great oracles of antiquity knew this truth and were trained from very young to keep alive the flame of cognitive wisdom in them and thus be able to communicate with the higher deities and spirits, such as the Oracles of Delphi, Dodona or the Chaldean Oracle of Mesopotamia.

In these cases, one worked directly in the communication with the deity of the sanctuary, who through constant contact with the "messenger" well-named Pythoness, priestess or diviner, according to the case, strengthened their clairvoyance and showed them a clear field of play that completely evades the personal preferences and arrogant attitudes of current fortune tellers.

One of these entities nowadays is only kept in some textbooks and his adoration has been limited to certain traditional homes where he is still invoked to obtain its divine blessing and its clairvoyance.

This is the case of Coeus, the God of the soothsayers and one of the earliest recorded prophets, a Titan of ancient Greece (Primal Deities before the Olympic Gods). Coeus, is the Titan of Intelligence and Complex Wisdom, son of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea or Gaia (Earth), Coeus is the Father of Leto and Asteria, this makes him the grandfather of Apollo, Artemis and Hecate.

Coeus represented for Greek culture divination through the stars, a form of divination prior to the development of modern astrology, and became recorded centuries later as the first prophetic God, and according to European folklore, the father of the Prophets.

Coeus, as titan of wisdom and intelligence, was the spokesman of his Father Uranus before humanity and the youngest Gods. Being Uranus (also) a great prophet, in predicting to his son Cronus that this would be betrayed and defeated by his own son (Zeus) just as Cronus did with him.

The above account shows Coeus, an authoritarian and ancient deity, as a spokesman for fate, being him who speaks in the name of his father, becomes the most similar to a diviner who speaks in the name of the spirits.

Coeus had two daughters, who together with their own children represent the two oldest branches of clairvoyance, the same ones that in some way govern different aspects of the clairvoyance or modern prophecy. His daughter Leto, Goddess of the day and light, and her son, Apollo, God of prophecies and oracles, represent the prophetic power of light, heaven and stars, it is they who rule over the prophets who foretell the future and the fortune in solar hours.

His second daughter, Asteria, the goddess of night oracles and stars, and her Hecate, goddess of witchcraft and queen of ghosts, represent the prophetic power of night, darkness, spirits that speak from beyond, and the oldest forms of necromancy, it is they who govern and bless those oracles, diviners, and prophets who predict the future and fortune at night.

Leto and Asteria, are daughters of the Titan Coeus, God of wisdom, and the titan Phoebe, goddess of intellect and mental agility. This makes Coeus, Asteria, Leto, Apollo and Hecate into the first family of Prophet Gods of any Mythology.

In addition to them, we can not forget Artemis (the Moon), who is the twin sister of Apollo and in turn the female part of him, who takes the attributes granted by his father Zeus as Goddess of the hunt and queen of the wood. Although she is not a prophetic deity, it is told in the legends related to the Oracle of Delphi, that for those who came to the temple pythoness seeking answers in the evening hours, it was Artemis who was present giving her wisdom to the Oracle, while her brother Apollo, The regent God of the Sun and the Light of the day rested on Olympus.

If you wish, take these names into account as part of your personal prayers and use them to bless your personal oracle.

Direct family of Coeus:

Coeus (Titan): God of Intelligence and Wisdom, the first soothsayer, spokesman of the sky and oracle of the stars. Father of Leto & Asteria.

Phoebe (Titanid): Goddess of Intellect and mental agility. Mother of Leto & Asteria.

Leto (Titanid): Goddess of the night and the light of day. Mother of Apollo & Artemis.

Asteria (Titanid): Goddess of night oracles and fallen stars. Mother of Hecate.

Apollo (Olympic God): God of the Sun and the light of the day, god of the arts, music and poetry, d of the prophets, regent of the Oratory of Delphi. Son of Leto & Zeus.

Artemis (Olympic Goddess): Goddess of the hunting and the wild animals, queen of the forests and the virgin lands, protector of the pure maidens. Daughter of Leto & Zeus.

Hecate (Goddess): Goddess of witchcraft and ghosts, mother and queen of all witches. Daughter of Asteria.

Indirect family of Coeus:

Perses (Titan): God of destruction. Father of Hecate with Asteria.

Note: Artemis as Greek Goddess, is part of the Pantheon of the Twelve Olympic Gods, is the Goddess of hunters, forests and wild animals, her later cult as Moon Goddess was given for various historical reasons:

Her image was found in various temples of Selene, a titanid and goddess of the moon, where Artemis and Hecate were venerated as "other lunar deities."

Her most recognized images in the art, represented with a Moon on the head that represents a crown and in certain paintings, is mistakenly identified as Artemis, Goddess of the moon and the night.

By direct association with her brother, being Apollo the God of the Sun and the day, the complementary connotations in scriptures after the decay of Greece were attributed to Artemis.

Like her association with Selene the lunar Goddess, also there were engravings of Artemis in the temples of Eileithyia, the goddess of the Parthians who was also venerated like a lunar deity.