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Love
Love emerges from nothingness and creates day and light. -
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Uranus and Gaea(Heaven and Earth)
Uranus and Gaea first give birth to the monsters and then the Titans. Uranus imprisons the monsters and Gaea sends the Titans to free them. Cronus, one of the Titans, fights his Uranus and his blood releases more monsters including Erinyes whose job is to punish sinners. -
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Cronus and Rhea
Monsters flea and Titans reign with Cronus as the king and his sister Rhea and queen. -
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Birth of Zeus
Cronus and Rhea have five children. Cronus eats them all fearing they will overpower him. Rhea hides the sixth child(Zeus) and replaces him with a rock, which Cronus eats -
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Zeus
When Zeus is an adult he challenges Cronus and forces him to give back his siblings. His siblings become the first Olympians. -
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Olyimpians
The war between the Titans and Olympians almost destroys the Universe. Zeus wins the war with the help of exiled monsters and his mother Gaea. The Titans are banished to the bottomless pitt of Tartarus. -
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Golden age of man
After the victory for the Olympians, the world is ready to be inhabited.
One story regarding the creation of man suggests Epimetheus creates the animals and then his brother Prometheus creates humans with superior gifts. -
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How man was created part 2
Another story suggests that the gods created a series of humans from various metals, starting with gold and ending in the current generation of humans made of iron. -
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How man was created part 3
Another story states that there were several generations also made up of metals, but Zeus destroys them with a flood to punish their wickedness. Two humans, Deucalion and Pyrrha survive. Zeus allows them to live because they are faithful. They are instructed to cast the bones of their mother(mother earth) behind them, which means they have to throw stones behind them. The stones turn into humans and create the next generation of man. -
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Creation of Women
Zeus creates women to punish Prometheus's favor toward man. Zeus sends Pandora to earth with a box she is not allowed to open. Her curiosity leads her to opening the box, and it lets out a horde of miseries into the world. She closes the box before the last of it can escape(hope).