Greek Mythology

by Kaycee Leung (5E)

How much do you know about Greek mythology? I bet that everything you know about it is the famous gods like Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. So, in this series of articles, we’ll talk about those and some even older than them.

According to stories, the world begins with the god Chaos, The Void. And out of the Void emerged Gaea, the Earth and some other gods. Then Gaea made Uranus, God of the sky, and with him gave birth to 12 titans, 6 male and 6 female. Then, they had the cyclopes and the Hundred-Handed Ones, but Uranus threw them into Tatarus, which angered Gaea because she loves her children. So, she persuaded Cronus, his youngest son, to castrate his father.  After his father ran away in shame, Cronus became ruler of everything.

Then, Gaea and Uranus made a prophecy for Cronus, saying that his kids will overthrow him just as he did his father. Being scared of the prophecy, whenever his wife gave birth to a child, he would eat him or her. At last, when Cronus’s wife was pregnant with Zeus, she decided she didn’t want her child to be eaten anymore and, with Gaea’s help, replaced Cronus with a Rock and gave it to Cronus.

When Zeus grew up, he saved his siblings by feeding Cronus a special drink, which made Cronus throw up his siblings out, who were growing up in Cronus’s stomach the whole time. Then, they freed the cyclops from Tartaraus, which made them their famous weapons, like Zeus’s lightning bolt.

Then, the three brothers and some allies overthrew Cronus in the Titanomachy, the war of titans versus gods.