Summary: The Greek Origin Myth

In the beginning there was only Chaos, an empty void. But

somehow this enormous vacancy gave birth to Gaea, the Earth, to
Tartarus, the great region beneath the earth, and to Eros, the
shining God of Love and attraction. Chaos also bore Erebus, the
darkness of the netherworld, and Night, the darkness over the
earth. Then Erebus slept with night, which gave birth to Ether, the
heavenly light, and now the earthly light. Then Night alone
produced doom, fate, death, sleep, dreams, nemesis, and others
that come to man out of darkness. Meanwhile, Gaea alone gave
birth to Uranus, the sky. Uranus became Gaeas mate covering
her on all sides. This primordial couple, Gaea and Uranus,
produced
the
twelve
Titans:
six
males: Coeus, Crius, Cronos, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus and
six
females: Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis,
and
Tethys, the three towering wheel-eyed Cyclopes and the three
terrible Hecatoncheires with fifty heads and a hundred pieces of
arms. However, Uranus was a bad husband and a father. Each of
the Hecatoncheires hated him, and he hated them in return. In his
anger Uranus pushed them back into Gaea's womb and kept them
there. Gaea writhed in pain at this and plotted revenge upon her
mate. She made a flint sickle and tried to get her children to
attack Uranus. All were too afraid except the youngest Titan,
Cronos. Gaea and Cronos set up an ambush of Uranus as He lay
with Gaea. Cronos grabbed his father and castrated him with the
stone sickle. Cronos threw the severed genitals into the ocean. As
Uranus departed, he promised that Cronos and the Titans would
be punished. From his spilt blood came the Giants, Ash tree
nymphs, Erinnyes. From the sea foam where his genitals fell came
Aphrodite, the beautiful goddess of love, who floated along and
stepped ashore at Cyprus. Cronos became the next ruler. He
imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires in Tartarus.

Cronos shortly after marries his sister Rhea. Under his rule the
Titans had many offspring. He ruled for many ages. However,
both Gaea and Uranus had prophesied that he would be
overthrown by a son. To avoid this, Cronos swallowed each of his
children as they were born. Rhea was angry at the treatment to
her children and so she plotted against Cronos. When the time
came to give birth to her sixth children, Rhea hid herself. Then
she left her child to be raised by the nymphs. To conceal her act,
she wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes and passes it to Cronos
to swallow it. Gaeas child was named Zeus. He grew up in Crete.
Zeus even as a teenager was already showing immense strength.
As he reached his late teens his power was unmatched. When
Zeus was finally at his prime, he was ready to take on his father.
He consulted Metis on how to defeat Cronos. Metis prepared a
drink for Cronos design to make him vomit up the other children.
Rhea convinced Cronos to accept his son and Zeus was allowed to
return to Mount Olympus as Cronoss cupbearer. This gave Zeus
the opportunity to slip Cronos the specially prepared drink. The
plan worked and the other five children were vomited up. They
were thankful to Zeus and made him their leader. Cronos was yet
to be defeated and he vowed vengeance on Zeus. He and the
Titans except Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Oceanus fought to
return their power. Atlas became their leader in battle and it
looked for some time as though they would win and put the young
Gods down. However, Zeus was cunning. He went down to
Tartarus and freed the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires.
Prometheus joined Zeus as well. Zeus returns to battle with his
new allies. The Cyclopes provided Zeus with lightning bolts for
weapons. Then Zeus matches Cronos in power. And the
Hecatoncheires he set in ambush armed with boulders. With the
right time, Zeus retreated. The Hecatoncheires rained down
hundreds of boulders with such a fury, the Titans thought the
Mountains were falling on them. They broke and ran giving Zeus a
victory. Zeus exiled the Titans who had fought against him into

Tartarus. Except for Atlas, who was singled out for the special
punishment of holding the world on his shoulders. Although
Cronos and the Titans were defeated, all was not well and Zeus
was not safe. Gaea was sad because her children have been
imprisoned. Gaea driven by sorrow and anger gave birth to her
last offspring, Typhoeus. Typhoeus was so fearsome that most of
the Gods fled, but not Zeus, he fought Typhoeus. Zeus was
surprised at how strong Typhoeus was. But Zeus with all his might
flung his light bolt and he was able to kill that creature. After all
the battles, Zeus still had one last battle, and it was to be with the
Giants. They went so far as to attempt to invade Mount Olympus.
Piling mountain upon mountain in an effort to reach the top, but
the Gods had grown strong. And with the help from Zeuss new
son, Heracles the Giants were subdued or killed.

Valuing:
Dont be too greedy of so much power.
Always think twice before doing a decision because it might
give the urge to someone to kill you.
Love your family.
Vengeance is not ours, its God.

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