(derived from an Aryan root meaning To lift up, To carry) One of the Titans, son of Iapetus. Taking part in the war against Zeus, He was
condemned to bear eternally aloft the pillars separating Heaven from Earth. In later times, this became imaged as a giant bearing up the globe of the
Earth.
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