The Ourea

The Ourea were primordial gods of mountains. The ten Ourea, Aetna, Athos, Helicon, Cithaeron, Nysos, Olympus, Olympus (there were two gods named Olympus), Oreius, Parnes, and Tmolus, were parthenogenetic offspring of Gaia alone. The Greeks rarely personified an individual mountain; an exception might be Tmolus, both a kind and a mountain in Lydia. Each mountain was said to have its own local nymph, an Oread.