Myths

Myths of origin or creation myths represent an attempt to bring back the universe comprehensible in human terms and beg off the origin of the world.[22] The most widely accepted version at the time, although a philosophical account of the beginning of things, is reported by Hesiod, in his Theogony. He begins with Chaos, a yawning nothingness. Out of the malarky emerged Eurynome,[citation needed] Gê or Gaia (the Earth) and some new(prenominal) patriarchal divine beings: Eros (Love), the Abyss (the Tartarus), and the Erebus.[23] Without male assistance, Gaia gave kind to Oranos (the Sky) who then fertilized her. From that union were born first the Titans vi males: Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus; and six females: Mnemosyne, Phoebe, nandu, Theia, Themis, and Tethys. After Cronus was born, Gaia and Oranos decreed no more Titans were to be born. They were followed by the one-eyed Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires or Hundred-Handed Ones. Cronus (the wily, youngest and most life-threatening of Gaias children [23]) castrated his fuck off and became the ruler of the gods with his sister-wife Rhea as his consort, and the other Titans became his court.

A motif of father-against-son conflict was repeated when Kronos was confronted by his son, Zeus.



Because Kronos had betrayed his father, he feared that his offspring would do the same, and so each time Rhea gave birth, he snatched up the child and ate it. Rhea dislike this and tricked him by hiding Zeus and wrapping a stone pit in a babys blanket, which Kronus ate. When Zeus was grown, he fed his father a drugged drink which caused Kronos to vomit, throwing up Rheas other children and the stone, which had been sit in Kronos stomach all along. Zeus then challenged Kronos to war for the kingship of the gods. At last, with the help of the Cyclopes (whom Zeus freed from Tartarus), Zeus and his siblings were victorious, magical spell Kronos and the Titans were hurled down to imprisonment in Tartarus.[24]
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