Pallas and Styx* (the ocean-nymph) were the parents of Envy, Victory, Strength, and Force. […] She was probably a personification of the creative and generative forces of nature. […] Gæa, or Terra, personified the earth, with its subterranean forces. […] Titans personified the forces that formed the earth in the early ages. […] Aphrodite, or Venus, personified the creative and generative forces of Nature.