Greek Mythology

Gaia was mad at Uranus for banishing most of her children

• She turned to Cronus for help

Cronus castrated Uranus

• Uranus's blood created many things like Aphrodite

• Uranus was robbed of his powers because he was a fatherly figure who lost his manly part

Cronus took over the universe, took Rhea as his queen, and ruled for eons

• For the most part, everything went really well under the rule of Cronos

• Cronus believed with his father to keep Gaia’s other children away which further angered her

Cronus and Rhea had many children who were known as the Gods

• Offspring: Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and Zeus

• Cronus was paranoid that his children would castrate him, so he swallowed his children just after birth

• When Rhea was pregnant with her last child (Zeus), she didn’t want to see another child eaten so she gave a rock to Cronus to eat and gave the baby to Prometheus

After Zeus matured, he gave Cronus something to throw up and he threw up all of his children

• Zeus waged a war with the other Gods, hundred-hands, cyclops, and giants against the Titans

• One of the Titans went to the Gods (Prometheus) and said he would help the Gods win the war for protection

• The Gods won the war because of the help from Prometheus but Cronus escaped and still exists today

The world now belonged to the Gods

• Zeus punished the Titans like Atlas who was forced to hold the world

• Prometheus and Epimetheus were given pardon and lived with the Gods on Mount Olympus

Zeus saw that most the children of Gaea were trouble and imprisoned them again

• Gaea was enraged for the third time and wanted to destroy Zeus

• Gaea creates Typhan, an immortal dragon, to kill Zeus but Zeus trapped it beneath the earth

  • Sicily sits on top of the dragon

  • This is why the island is so volcanically active

The containment of the dragon starts civilization