Finally, this is happening. Welcome to the first part of a (probably) very long series of Greek mythology. Why is this being talked about in this blog, a blog which I mentioned was for science and history you ask? I have no proper answer to this, for some reason this seemed like a great idea. Anyway, like I said in pt. 0Ā Iāll be exploring Greek Mythology in this series, this is of course in a not-so-fact-based-but-kinda-fact-based manner, which is always the fun way of doing things. Thatās enough babble from me, letās get to the point.
So, a long time ago, and I mean a very very long time ago, there was a whole lot of nothing. And from this nothingness came Chaos, the very first āgodā of sorts.. (Notice how I did not say āGodā and said āgodā with a lowercase āgā. This is because there are many more gods that will follow very soon.)
Now, Chaos was a collection of matter, mist and gases and stuff. After quite some time of chaos, Chaos began to calm down and gather into bigger matter, from this gathering was born Gaea (or Gaia if you want). Gaea is the Earth, rocks, oceans and all. She would take up a human form and walk around the Earth (like..on herselfā¦Itās pretty weird). Again, like Chaos, Gaea got bored with walking around on the Earth alone and decided that she wanted a companion. Lo and behold, a companion was created indeed. It was the Sky! He was called Uranus. Chaos, seeing the creation of the Sky, decided to DIY more stuff, and by stuff I mean gods. His first creation was Water, which was the god Pontus. And then Chaos created a Pit under the Earth called Tartarus (Also a god).
The fun, more confusing part begins. Chaos and Tartarus together gave rise to Nyx, the embodiment of night. Nyx, then gave rise to Hemera, the embodiment of Day. Gaea and Uranus were having kids together too, in the middle of all the other god giving birth to more gods. The first time Gaea and Uranus had kids, Gaea gave birth to 12 children, six boys and girls each. These children were called the Titans. After the birth of the Titans, Uranus and Gaea began to fight more often and Gaea became resentful and full of contempt for Uranus. In hopes of getting back together, they had another set of kids, this time it was tripletsā¦.with only one eye and a very hairy body, they were called the Elder Cyclops. Uranus, appalled by them andĀ threw them into Tarturus. Gaea, obviously hated this, but again, in hopes of rekindling their relationship, they had yet another set of kids, triplets again. but these children had a hundred arms and heads on their body, they were called the Hundred Handed Ones. Uranus again, appalled by the sight threw the triplets into Tarturus. If you have not noticed it yet, Our guy Uranus was a pretty messed up dude.
The Hundred-Handed Ones were the last straw for Gaea. She had enough of Uranus and decided to take revenge on him. She summoned the hardest substance fromā¦.herself, and created the first weapon, a curved iron blade with a wooden handle called the Scythe. She asked one of the Titans to murder Uranus. So, One of the boys named Kronos took up the task, he was the youngest of the Titans. So, they decided to trick Uranus into coming down to the Earth in his human form. Kronos chose four of his brothers ā Koios, Iapetus, Krios, and Hyperion. Kronos had them hold down Uranus so that he could chop him up into pieces. For this, Kronos promised his four brothers the four corners of the Earth, once he was King of the Universe. Before getting cut into pieces by his son, Uranus cursed Kronos, saying that if Kronos killed him, He would meet with the same fate (Chopped up by his children, that is)
As Kronos chopped Uranus, a whole bunch of blood spattered all over the place. It wasnāt red blood mind you, it was the blood of the gods so it was golden in color and was called Ichor. From the spatter were born a whole range of creatures, good and bad. Bad as in three bat-like creatures called the Furies and Good as in Nymphs and Satyrs.
Uranus was dead and Kronos was named Kind of the Universe, Gaea got her revenge and the four volunteers got the four corners of the Earth, Koios became the Titan of the North, Iapetus the West, Hyperion got the East, and Krios got the South. What of Uranusā remains you ask? Well, Kronos simply tossed them into the ocean.
There you have it, the creation of the universe, the Greek version. Next up, The Story of the Titans.
Ā Greek Mythology Series Pt.1: The Creation of theĀ Universe Finally, this is happening. Welcome to the first part of a (probably) very long series of Greek mythology.
