Beginning of myth 1/? (D1, D2)

In the beginning of Greek mythology, the Ancient Greeks that believed in this form of polytheism through the worship of multiple gods and goddesses believed that the beginning of time just started with Chaos. Chaos was just complete emptiness. This is similar to the scientific belief of the Big Bang Theory, where there was just emptiness until there was suddenly everything. In the Greek point of view, they believed that Gaia was the first to exist out of all of the gods. Gaia was seen as Mother Goddess and created planet Earth and the entirety of the universe itself. By herself Gaia had a total of three children. They were called Uranus (the sky), Pontus (the sea), and Ourea (the mountains). Her children together were the factors of planet Earth; therefore she is seen as the creator of the Earth. It makes sense if you think about it. Uranus also ended up becoming the husband of his mother, Gaia. There was a lot of interbreeding and incest in Greek myth because they had a little amount of gods and goddesses at the time, but it continues throughout all Greek mythology through popular gods and goddesses. For example, Aphrodite and Hephaestus (in the case in which Zeus is the father of Aphrodite rather than some beliefs that Uranus was the true father of Aphrodite); Zeus and Hera; Hades and Persephone (Persephone was his niece); etc. etc. She ended up having many more children with Uranus.

The children Uranus had with Gaia were the three Cyclopes; the Hundred Handed Giants; the Titans: Cronus, Rhea, Tethus, Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Crius, Iapetus, Mnenosyne, Phoebe, and Themis; and then in some cases Uranus is seen as the father of Aphrodite rather than some beliefs that Zeus is the father of Aphrodite. In the point of view and belief that Uranus was the father of Aphrodite, she was born from the water in which Uranus’s body was thrown into after it was dismembered. In some other cases also she is believed to be born from foam from the ocean, in which in this point of view, Poseidon would be seen as the father rather than Uranus or Zeus. The first children Uranus and Gaia had together had been the three Cyclopes and the Hundred Handed Giants. Uranus received of prophesies that one of his children would overpower him and take over his throne as the ruler. Because of this reason, he took his children that consisted of the three Cyclopes and the Hundred Handed Giants and jailed them in the Underworld. The people of Ancient Greece also believed that the Underworld was created when planet Earth, Gaia and her first children: Uranus, Pontus, and Ourea were created. They believed that the Underworld was as old as the entirety of the Universe and planet Earth. That is in the Christian point of view, hell in which the devil rules over. In the Greek point of view, they also see it as hell or as a place of misery, but in this case it is ruled by Hades, the most despised out of all of the gods and goddesses in Greek mythology. The people of Greece didn’t want to meet Hades for obvious reasons; they would have to die in order to meet him. The people feared death, and Hades was their symbol for death and the afterlife, and the people of Greece obviously didn’t want to die anytime soon. Hades, talked about in a previous blog entry of mine, was one of the children of Rhea and Cronus and was given the underworld to rule after losing the sky and seas to his brothers, but that’s a different story.