THE OLYMPIAN CREATION MYTH

GAIA

DARKNESS (TARTARUS) THEN EROS

GAIA GAVE BIRTH TO PONTUS

THEN TO URANUS WHO SENT DOWN RAIN TO FERTILISE HER

CHILDREN – TITANS, CYCLOPES, HECATONCHIRES

URANUS FORCED GAIA TO KEEP CHILDREN SHUT INSIDE HER

GAIA PERSUADED CRONUS TO PUNISH FATHER – CUT OFF GENITALS AND THREW THEM AWAY

DROPS OF BLOOD FELL ON GAIA AND SHE CONCEIVED ERINYES (FURIES)

GENITALS FELL IN OCEAN FORMING WHITE FOAM – FROM THIS WAS BORN APHRODITE

CRONUS FREED SIBLINGS AND BECAME KING. TOOK SISTER RHEA AS MATE

FORETOLD THAT CRONUS WOULD BE DEPOSED BY SON. SO SWALLOWED CHILDREN AS SOON AS BORN

RHEA TRICKED CRONUS BY GIVING HIM STONE RATHER THAN SIXTH CHILD - ZEUS

ZEUS HIDDEN FROM FATHER AND RAISED BY NYMPHS

WHEN ZEUS BECAME AN ADULT HE TRICKED CRONUS INTO DRINKING AN EMETIC WHICH MADE HIM VOMIT UP CHILDREN

WAR – YOUNGER GODS, CYCLOPES AND HECATONCHIRES AGAINST TITANS AND CRONUS

GODS WON AND TITANS IMPRISONED IN TARTARUS

GAIA ANGERED – SENT TYPHON