Theogony: Clash of Titans

In the beginning, there was nothing
but Chaos... Darkness covered
everything.
Until, the Earth was
born out of Chaos and so did the
mountains, the sea and the sky
(Uranus) with the sun, the moon
and the stars.

Shortly after, Uranus
and Earth came together and gave
birth to the Titans.
But, Uranus was
afraid that one of his children
would usurp his throne. So, he
enclosed every one of them in the
depths of the Earth.
But his son,
Cronus , the strongest of them all,
defeated him and became the world
leader. He married Rhea who gave
birth to 2 gods and 3 goddesses:
Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia and
Demeter.

But unfortunately, Cronus inherited
the fear of his father; one of his
children could snatch the throne
from him.
So when they were born,
he swallowed them! Worried, Rhea
who was expecting her sixth child,
gave birth secretly on a mountain
in Crete knowing well that if this
child were to be in Cronus's sight,
he would serve the same fate.
She
named him Zeus and convinced
Cronus that he had swallowed him
as well by giving him a stone,
swaddling clothes which Cronus
mistook for his newborn and
swallowed it.

The Nymphs took care of Zeus.
They
fed him with the milk of a goat.

When he grew up, Zeus found his
father and tricked him into
drinking a mixture of mustard and
wine.
This made him disgorge his
stomach's contents and out came his
older siblings fully grown!

This is how the great titanomachy
began, the war between the Titans
and the Gods, with Zeus as their
leader.
This titanic battle lasted for
ten years. The gods defeated the
Titans and threw them into
Tartarus, a dark and gloomy place
as far from the earth as earth is
from the sky.
Then the gods fought
with the Giants for the dominance
of the world. The Gigantomachy
lasted a long time as well.
But the
gods were again victorious.

Thus,
Zeus became the ruler of the whole
world and he and the other gods
settled in Olympus.

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Theogony: Clash of Titans

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Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the cosmos. It is the first known Greek mythical cosmogony.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony

budaatum:
Their first atheist lesson was completely impromptu. Noah was 5, Jesse was 3, and we were sitting on the couch before bed reading from “D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths,” a holdover from my childhood bookshelf. One of the boys asked what a “myth” was, and I told them it was a story about how the world works. People used to believe that these gods were in charge of what happened on Earth, and these stories helped explain things they didn’t understand, like winter or stars or thunder. “See” — I flipped ahead and found a picture — “Zeus has a thunderbolt.”

“They don’t believe them anymore?” No, I said. That’s why they call it “myth.” When people still believe it, they call it “religion.” Like the stories about God and Moses that we read at Passover or the ones about Jesus and Christmas.

The little pajama-clad bodies nodded, and on we read.

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