Themis, the goddess of law, justice and order, one of the twelve titan gods, the daughter of Uranos, the god of the heavenly vault, and Gaia, the goddess of the earth, is a symbol of law and justice, as well as the creator and guardian of order.
In Hesiod's Genealogy of the Gods, there are not many descriptions of her, and we only find that "later the earth and the vast heavens intersected, and the deep vortex gave birth to the deep vortex of Oghianos, Coos, Cleos, Hupérion, Iapetos, Thea, Rhea, Themis, Mone mossinie, and the golden-crowned Forber and the lovely Theseus." "Second, Zeus married the illuminated Themis and gave birth to Theray (the three goddesses of time), namely Onomia (goddess of order), Dike (goddess of justice), and the flower-filled Erenich (goddess of peace). These goddesses cared about the work of mortals. They also gave birth to Moirai (the three goddesses of destiny), and the wise Zeus bestowed them with the highest honor. These three goddesses are Chlosso, Lahsis and Atlopos, who make life lucky and unhappy. ”。
Like Mossene, she was the only two titans who did not marry any of their brothers, but to Zeus, the three-generation god king, meaning that she was not only Zeus's aunt, but also his second wife. According to legend, her image is usually a blindfolded goddess dressed in a white robe, wearing a golden crown, holding a scale in her left hand, holding a sword in her right hand, and leaning on a stick. A snake is wrapped around a stick, a dog sits at his feet, and a scepter, a number of books and a skeleton are placed on the desk. According to the interpretation, the white robe symbolizes immaculate morality and uprightness; blindfolded, because justice relies purely on reason, not on the wrong person's sensory impression; crown, because justice is incomparable, glory comes first; scales, metaphorically discretionary fairness, in the face of justice, everyone is worthy, no more and no less; the sword, indicating severe sanctions, never tolerated; the stick, originally the symbol of the highest magistrate in ancient Rome, is the embodiment of authority and punishment; the snake and the dog, respectively, represent hatred and friendship, and neither is allowed to affect the judgment. This image usually represents the divinity of law and justice that she commands.
The divinity of her order was born out of a short story and a change in her identity, and it is said that Zeus's first wife was the original goddess of wisdom, Metis, who recorded in the Genealogy of the Gods that "when she was about to give birth to athena, the goddess of bright eyes, according to the advice of the starry Ulanos and Caia, Zeus cleverly deceived her and swallowed her into his belly." They advised Zeus to do this in order not to allow other gods to take the throne of the immortal gods in place of Zeus; for Metis was destined to give birth to several extremely intelligent children, the first being the bright-eyed maiden Tritogna, who was equal in strength and wisdom to her father. But after that, Metis will have a proud son to be the king of the gods and mankind. However, Zeus preemptively swallowed her into his stomach, so that the goddess could give him advice. Themis was so disgusted by this that when she married Zeus as her second wife, she created the law of marriage, invented the concept of the family, and established the obligations between men and women to bind Zeus.
In ancient Greek mythology, this iron-faced and selfless goddess often sat at the throne of Zeus, assisting Zeus in making just judgments about the various disputes in the world, and she can be understood as the maintainer of order and the administrator of the security on Mount Olympus. As the mother of the three goddesses of destiny, the goddess knows the future and secrets that Zeus does not know, such as the fate of the son of the goddess of the sea, Thetis, who will be more powerful than his father. It was because of her wisdom that Prometheus was freed from Zeus's punishment of him. It was she who revealed to Pyrrha and Deucalion how to rebuild her home after the floods. She also informed Atlas that one day a son of Zeus would come to steal the golden apple from Hesperides Garden. Because of this, Atlas refused to help Perseus.
All of the above is enough to show the power of this female Titan.