The Tritopatores were gods who were identified with the Hecatonchires and perhaps with three wind-gods Boreas, Notos and Zephyros.
- "Tritopatores: Demon in the Atthis says that the Tritopatores are winds (anemoi), Philochoros [C4th BC poet] that the Tritopatores were born first of all. For the men of that time, he says, understood as their parents the earth (ge) and the sun (helios), whom then they called Apollon. Phanodemos [C4th BC] in [book] 6 maintains that only [the] Athenians both sacrifice to them and pray to them, when they are about to marry, for the conception of children. In the Physikos of Orpheus the Tritopatores are named Amalkeides and Protokles and Protokleon, being doorkeepers and guardians of the winds (anemoi). But the author of Explanation claims that they are [the offspring] of Ouranos (Heaven) and (Earth), and that their names are Kottos, Briareos and Gyges."
Suidas "Tritiopatores" (from Harpocration s.v.)