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This name regards the 6 sons of Uran, the divinity of the sky and its stars and Gea, the divinity of the Earth; so, their birth was highly symbolic, meaning the union of Sky and Earth to generate the forces of Nature.
They were:
- CEOS
- CRIOS
- YPERION
- IAPETOS
- OCEANOS
- KRONOS

Uran and Gea generated also 6 daughters, the TITANIDES (THEA, RHEA, THEMIS, MNEMOSINES, PHOEBE and THETIS)and each of them married one of their brothers, generating many other divinities.

So, fearing to lose his power on the Universe against all those exuberant boys, Uran closed all them in the Tartaros, (like the Cyclopes), that was imagined by mythology as the most far extremity of the Universe, in which the Gods confined their enemies forever, toghether with other Giants.

But KRONOS seriously wounded his father with a sickle, took the power and freed his brothers.

Then, ZEUS, one of the sons of the Titans (precisely, KRONOS' son) rebelled against his father and started a bloody fight of all his generation against the Titans, known as TITANOMACHYA.
This fight lasted 10 years, ending with the defeat of the Titans, that had occupated the Otros Mounts in the Southern Thessalia, in Greece, against the OLYMPIC generation led by ZEUS, so named because they had their headquarter on MOUNT OLYMPOS, Northwards from the central plane of Thessalia.

So, the Titans were unchained in the Tartaros.

Only one of the Titans, OCEANOS, didn't take part to the rebellion of his brothers and helped, on the contrary, Zeus.
This could explain why, on the Earth, there are still the seas and the oceans.

By the traditions, probably, the Titans's wives didn't participate to the fight and, not by chance, for the ancient Greeks, women had only to stay at home.
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F rom then on, the adjective TITANIC refers to something of extraordinary, immense, outstanding, like, for ex., the genius of a great artist, or great monumental buildings, like the Egyptian Pyramids.

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