Beginning of myth 2/? (EE 1,2)

After the creation of everything in Greek myth, such as the belief in the creation of Chaos, the underworld, Gaia and her children that she had alone: Uranus, Pontus, and Ourea; Uranus came to power. He fathered children with Gaia, as mentioned in the last post, three Cyclopes, the Hundred Handed Giants (I think that there might be three of them as well), and the beginning of the Titans, such as the most known, Cronus. Uranus was a very cruel and brutal leader and he abused his power. He thought that the Hundred Handed Giants and the three Cyclopes would overpower him, so Uranus put them in the lowest layer in the underworld in order to preserve his title of being the supreme ruler of the Greek world. Uranus’s mother, who is also his wife, Gaia did not like how her son/husband was running the Greek world, and confronted Cronus, the most powerful of the children of Gaia and Uranus, and told him about how she wanted to get rid of Uranus’s brutality and selfish rule. Gaia mainly wanted her children, the Hundred Handed Giants and the three Cyclopes, to return from the underworld. Gaia missed them and wanted them back on Earth to be with her and the rest of her family.

  Cronus then, along with his brothers, sisters, and his mother, overruled the brutal Titan and took control. Because they couldn’t kill Uranus, because the Greeks believed that all gods and goddesses were immortal, they dismembered him and through his limbs into the River Styx, which was seen as the sacred river for the Greek gods and goddesses. Some people believed that when Uranus was “killed” and thrown into the River Styx that foam rose out of the River. In this belief, which was seen in many other very different ways, Aphrodite was born out of the foam. Another way people believe that Aphrodite was born was that her father was Zeus, Uranus’s grandchild or great grandchild? I don’t know how that would work seeing that Uranus married Gaia and had the Titans with her, but he was also the son of Gaia, so… Cronus then became the leader of the Greek world, given permission by his mother, Gaia, to rule. Cronus released the Hundred Handed Giants and the Cyclopes from the underworld immediately after the war between the Titans and Uranus.

Cronus received of prophesies by what would be a fortune teller in modern times, that one of his children would overrule him and take over the throne. Cronus was also a brutal leader like his father, but no one knew that would happen until they declared him the ruler of the Greek world. He put the Hundred Handed Giants and the Cyclopes (I still think that there were three of them) back into the underworld, where Uranus originally put them. Cronus then married his sister, Rhea and they had the six Olympians. They are probably the most well-known out of the Greek gods and goddesses. These children were Zeus, Hades, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon, and Demeter. Because Cronus was afraid to lose his place on the throne, he ate his children. He couldn’t actually eat his children seeing that the children are gods and goddesses, making them immortal. Cronus consumed the children and they were trapped in his stomach for a number of years. Rhea became considerably more depressed after she handed over each child to Cronus to consume, before she took action. When Cronus asked to see the final child, Zeus, Rhea gave him a rock covered in a baby blanket instead of the child to trick him.