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The Beginning
There was nothing but Chaos and darkness and death, then out of thin air, Erebus and Night were born. -
Afterly...
EARTH. Grand and beautiful and....just there. It was only natural that Earth would come along with Light and Day, but there's no reason for it to be, it just is. Although, strangely, Earth was it's own personality. Heaven was that blue up above, and yet that also had a strange personality. The whole universe was alive and partying. Giving Heaven and Earth personalities, though, helped the Greeks understand them, because they wanted to understand everything around them. -
And Then...
Somewhere in the midst of all of the chaos and darkness and....Erebus, Love was born, banishing blind confusion and bringing forth order and beauty. Love created Light, along with the radiant Day. The fact that love is created out of nothing, and is BEAUTIFUL, connects this reoccuring love for beauty in the Greek culture, and, don't we love beauty? Don't we strive to be beautiful? Yeah, that's what I thought. -
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Ancient Times
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New Day!
First creatures ever are monsters! Mother Gaea and Father Ouranos spawned monster children. We think the Earth was inhabited by giant dinosaurs and stuff, so the Greeks thought it was inhabited by cyclopses and things with a hundred hands and five hundred heads and stuff like that. They had strength beyond any belief. They were human but monsters at the same time, silly birth defected things. Maybe someone in Greece realize if you sleep with your son, strange things come out. -
PUNISHMENT
Cronus waited for his father, and once his father came, he wounded him terribly. The Giants, the fourth race of freaks, came from his blood along with the Furies. They were to punish sinners. They looked gross, having snakes for hair and crying blood and stuff. Those monsters were banished from existence, except for the Furies, because, you know, someone needs to punish those sinners. -
Imprisonment of the Ugly Monster Children
Heaven hated his children, those monsterous, birth-defected freaks of natures they were. He imprisoned them deep within the earth. Besides the Titans and the Cyclopses, all of Heaven and Gaea's children were stored away, never to be seen again. Mother Earth looked to her remaining children for help, because she loved her children even if they were ugly monsters, and only one steps forward. Cronus. -
CANNIBALISM.
Now, Cronus and his sister-queen were rulers of everything. Cronus started eating his children because fate told him that one of his sons would rise and rebel against him, so Rhea tucked away Zeus, their sixth child, to a safe hole somewhere. When Zeus grew, he forced his father, with the help of grandmama Earth, to throw up his brothers that he had already eaten. This sparked a father-son dispute over the throne of the universe, the clash of the Titans and the Gods. -
Zeus Takes the Throne and Gains Shiny New Powers
Zeus won because he had released those birth-defected children from the beginning of the story with the hundred hands and what-not. One of the sons, Prometheus, sided with Zeus and with his smarts, helped with the planning of Cronus' overthrowing. Even though Zeus had taken thrown as the leader of the universe now, he still was fighting for the thrown. First, Mother Earth spawned Typhon, but Zeus struck him down with his shiny new powers, and then Hercules helped defeat the Giants. -
I KNOW WHAT WILL MAKE YOU HATE ME. WOMEN.
Zeus was angry at Prometheus for caring so much about the men he had asked him to create, and decided to create something evil for men. It was cute, sweet, lovely, and beautiful. What would this be? Women. Zeus gave men, women. As a punishment. From the first woman, who was named Pandora ("the gift of all"), came the race of women, who were evil but with no nature to do evil. -
AND NOW, MANKIND.....soon.
So now Zeus and his brothers and sisters were ruling the Earth. Awesome! But there were no people to rule over. They saw no threat to mankind, if they created mankind, so they decided "Lets make people!" They decided that Epimetheus and Prometheus, the two Titans that had sided with Zeus, should design mankind. -
CREATION OF MANKIND BECAUSE OF EPIMETHEUS BEING A STUPID BUTTHEAD
Epithemeus, very scatter-brained and kind of stupid, gave all desirable traits to animals - strength, cunning, protective coverings. Realizing he had given all the cool stuff to animals, Epimetheus goes to his brother and said, "Um, hey, help." and Prometheus, thinking his brother stupid, helped with the creation of mankind. They made man in the image of Gods, giving them an upright position. Realizing they have no way to protect themselves, Prometheus gave them knowledge and fire.