Blog on the Mythology of Greeks

Greek mythology can be dated to be originated around 2 billion years ago. It is the order of myths originally told by the ancient greeks and a genre of Ancient Greek Folklores. These stories tell the origin and the nature of the world, the lives and the activities of deities, heroes and mythological creatures and the other significances are their practices of cult and rituals.

In the Greek mythology, the Greeks say that Gaia(the earth was born before anyone. Then she gave birth to Uranus(the sky) who then fertilized her. From the union were born the first titans-six males:Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Lapetius and Oceanus, and six females:Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis, Tethys.

Then, Cronus had a son, Zeus. Both of them had a father-against-son conflict. Because Cronus had betrayed his father, he thought his sons would also do the same thing to him. So, when Rhea gave birth to a son, he ate them up. Rhea didn't like this. So, she hid Zeus and put a stone in his place. So, Cronus had eaten the stone. Zeus had grown up by that time. Then he gave Cronus a drug that made him vomit. He threw up Rhea's other children, including Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter and Hera.

Zeus then challenged Cronus to a war for the kingships of gods. He won the war with the help of Cyclopes and his siblings and then he put Cronus and the other Titans in Tartarus and Zeus ruled his emperor very wisely with his siblings

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