CHAOS - in one ancient Greek myth of creation, the dark, silent abyss from which all things came into existence. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos generated the solid mass of Earth, from which arose the starry, cloud-filled Heaven. Mother Earth and Father Heaven, personified respectively as Gaea [Gaia] and her offspring Uranus [Uranos], were the parents of the Titans. In a later theory, Chaos is the formless matter from which the cosmos, or harmonious order, was created.
Sky (Uranos) was the first who ruled over the whole world. And having wedded Earth (Gaia), he begat first the Hundred-handed.... After these, Earth bore him the Cyclopes.... But them Sky bound and cast into Tartarus.... And he begat children by Earth, to wit, the Titans ... and youngest of all, Cronus....But Earth, grieved at the destruction of her children, who had been cast into Tartarus....
Apollodorus
Earth produced the Sky (Uranus [Uranos]) to cover herself. Then, by coupling they produced an enormous brood, including Oceanus (Ocean), Themis (Law), Mnemosyne (Memory), Phoebe, Cronus, the Cyclopes (producers of Zeus' thunderbolt) and the fifty-headed monsters, Cottus, Briareus, and Gyes (the Hecatoncheires).
Not a very natural parent, Uranos took pleasure in preventing any of his children from seeing the light of day. He insisted that Gaia keep them locked up. Growing within the bowels of their Mother Earth (Gaia), the children of Uranos and Gaia caused great physical and emotional pain for their Mother Earth. Eventually she could take it no longer and so she created a new metal. From the metal, Gaia fashioned a sickle, which she gave to her boldest offspring, the Titan Cronus.
The next time Uranos came to make love to Gaia, which he did by stretching out all over the Earth, Cronus sprang up from his hiding place, brandished his sickle, and attacked and castrated father Uranos. Additional offspring sprang from the spilled blood and organ of Uranos : Giants, Erinyes (Furies), Meliae -- and most spectacularly, Aphrodite, who was born from the foam.
Like the Greek Theogony, the creation of the world in the Enuma elish begins with the universe in a formless state, from which emerge two primary gods, male and female:
Ares’ birth was a very odd birth compared to many other Greek gods. Hera was jealous of Zeus having the quality of conceiving a child immaculately. So she got a magical herb to make herself pregnant with the help of Zeus with a process called parthenogenesis. (Turnbull 2) The child she bore happened to be Ares.
Daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, Demeter was one of Cronus and Rhea’s six children, and sister of Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus (Pontikis). He feared that they would overthrow him and take his throne, as he had done to his own father, Uranus (34). Consequently, Cronus adopted the habit of swallowing his children as they were born, so they would never have a chance of overthrowing him (34). Distraught at the loss of her children, Rhea sought her mother Gaia, the earth mother, and asked for advice (Webster). Gaia advised that she give Cronus a stone to swallow in the place of her next child. After the birth of her last child, Zeus, Rhea followed this advice: she hid Zeu...
Cronus was afraid that one of them might overthrow him just as he had overthrown
Hera was “the daughter of Cronus and Rhea”. Cronus was the youngest son of Uranus and Gaia. Rhea was the mother of gods and the daughter of Uranus and Gaia. Cronus and Rhea were brother and sister, but they were married, having six children, the olympians. Her father was afraid of the prophecy that his children would overthrow him, so he swallowed all his children except one, Zeus, Hera’s brother. For Zeus not to be swallowed, Rhea wrapped a stone in a blanket, making it look like Zeus, and Cronus swallowed the stone while Hera’s younger brother was hidden. When Zeus grew older, he defeated and banished Cronus with the other titans and the siblings were released. Also, some other legends say Zeus received a potion and gave it to his father to vomit the five olympians. Being the savior of the five olympians and the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea, Zeus, is the brother of Hera. After defeating his father, Zeus did love Hera, but Hera was not interested in her younger brother. Zeus then tricked Hera into marrying him, and Hera, decided to marry him to hide her embarrassment and had three children, Ares the god of war, Hephaestus the god of fire, and Hebe the ...
Leading to the overthrow of the great ruler known as Cronus("The myths of Poseidon, God of the sea"), the battle of Titanomony. They released three cyclopes from the pit of the underworld and to help aid them in the war.The cyclopes returned a favor to them by granting Zeus’ power of lightning, the “invincibility helmet” of Hades and most importantly the trident of Poseidon.The three pronged weapon gave Poseidon the powers need to defeat Cronus and the Titans. Using the powers given to them by the cyclopes eventually overthrowing his powerful father ,Cronus, with the help of his brothers Zeus and Hades in the battle of Titanomony. The battle resulted in the Titans and the monster of the underworld ,Typon, getting sent into the “underworld” known as “Tartarus”.By defeating Cronus they split their power into three. Zeus getting the power to rule the sky and Earth.Then Hades got the privilege to rule the area known as the "underworld" .The third and final area split up between Zeus, Poseidon and Hades was ruling of the sea .("The myths of Poseidon, God of the sea"). They decide...
Out of the original emptiness(chaos), three immortal beings emerge: Gaea (mother earth), Tartarus (underworld), and Eros (love). Gaea by herself conceived Uranus (father sky), and made him her equal, then together Gaea gave birth to three hundred handed giants and the three cyclopes, in which Uranus threw his children into the Tartarus (underworld). Gaea hiding her feelings, gave birth to the next children of Uranus known as the thirteen titans. Eventually he was overthrown by his youngest son, whom took his father’s position as ruler of the universe and started the age of the titans. Uranus is a greek god that plays a crucial role in the start of greek mythology, has a great thirst for power, and had his power taken from him by his son Kronos.
Cronus and Rhea are the parents of Poseidon in Greek mythology. Poseidon is one of the 3 sons; the others are Hades and Zeus. And there three sisters were Demeter, Hestia, Hera, and while Cronus was the horrible father who feared his own children so he ate them at birth. He continued to eat the newborns until his wife tricked him by giving him stones instead to save Zeus. But sadly Poseidon (and Hades) was eaten by Cronus to save them Zeus (who was being raised by nymphs) became Cronus’ cupbearer. He poisoned Cronus and he threw up Poseidon. They started a war against Cronus it lasted for ten years until the brothers released the Cyclopes and in return they gave the each a weapon. Poseidon received a trident, Zeus a lightning bolt, and Hades the helmet of darkness.
Cronos killed Uranus in order to take his throne, as Uranus breathed his last breath he warned Cronos that his child would kill him, just as he did his father. Naturally the only way to prevent the prophesy from becoming reality was to eat his kids. They didn’t really believe in talking things out. Being immortal, the gods didn’t die. Rea, Cronos’s wife, became infuriated. She gave her husband a rock to swallow and eat instead of her child, Zeus. Zeus was sent to be raised until he was strong. Rea and Zeus fed Cronos a drink of which made him vomit up his children. The Zeus and his newly freed siblings then killed Cronos. Since everyone was so grateful to Zeus, he was unanimously determined as the King of the
...su, making him his palace, and later had a son Marduk, who was given gifts from his grandfather Anu that stirred Tiamat and did not let the gods within her rest. This caused them to incite Tiamat to wage war against them, which ultimately lead to her being split in half. Had Apsu not attempted against the lives of his children maybe Tiamat would not have had to fight against Anu (sky) and been split in half and the division would not have occurred. In the Theogony, there was a more direct relation between the split since Ouranos (sky) pushed his last children, the Hekatonchires, back into Gaia “[f]or of all the children that were born to Earth and Heaven, these were the most terrible, and they were hated by their own father from the first.” However, this caused Gaia great discomfort, leading her to create the adamantine sickle and plot with Kronos against Ouranos.
Gaea and Cronus plotted an ambush of Uranus. One night as Uranus lay with Gaea Cronus grabbed his father and castrated him with the stone sickle. What happened to Uranus after the attack is unknown, but as he departe...
His grandfather, is King of Argos, his name is Acrisius. Acrisius had a daughter named Danae, however he wanted a son. So in search for an answer towards having a son, Acrisius went to the Oracle of Delphi. The Oracle said that Acrisius’ daughter, Danae would be the one to carry a baby boy, but this child would kill Acrisius. To avoid his own death, Acrisius created an underground chamber to lock his daughter in, therefore, she would be unable to conceive a child. Little did Acrisius know that Zeus would shape shift into golden rain and conceive a child with Danae. Naturally, Danae gave birth to Perseus. When she was let out of this underground chamber Danae met Polydectes. Polydectes was determined to make Danae his wife and that is exactly what happened. Perseus was unable to grant his mother and Polydectes a gift, so he was told to bring back Medusa’s head. Perseus was successful in retrieving Medusa’s head. On his journey back home he met a beautiful Goddess who was in distress. Perseus saved her from a horrific sea monster and they instantly fell in love and wanted to be joined together in holy matrimony. However, Andromeda’s uncle was no too pleased with this decision. He wanted Andromeda only for himself. Therefore he planned to murder Perseus but was unsuccessful since Perseus had the advantage of Medusa’s head. Perseus showed Andromeda’s uncle Medusa’s face and he then was turned to stone. When he returned home with the gift, he found out Polydectes was abusing his mother. Instead of giving him the present he used it against Polydectes and turned him to stone as well. Acrisius became aware of what Perseus was capable of doing so he decided to flee. Although that didn’t help as much as he believed it would. Perseus and his grandfather ran into each other at the Games Ceremony, in Larissa. When Perseus went to throw the discus it slipped from his grasp and clashed into his grandfather’s head, killing
... children, Zeus, survived and it ultimately led to Cronus’s downfall. In order to uphold his preeminence, Cronus needed to limit the competition, which were his children. Also, in the myth of Medea, Medea assassinated both her children and her younger brother, without any sympathy. To be certain that her younger brother did not rebel against her in the future, she took the necessary steps to eliminate him. Medea as well murders her own children in which she bore to Jason, only to make him suffer. The vicious ways in which parents used to control their children’s lives just sparked a more hostile relationship.
The myth above started with a similar background as the Theogony by Hesoid. The cosmos in both myths are in Chaos at the very beginning until the appearance of world creator who reshaped the world. The special state of cosmos is also mentioned in many other creation myths such as Hebrew Bible. In Hebrew Bible, the early cosmos is described using the word