In Greek mythology, a ten-year series of battles
fought in Thessaly, consisting of most of
the Titans fighting against the Olympians
and their allies. This event is also known
as the War of the Titans,
Today in this videos you are going to findout
the series of events in the battle of titans.
In the beginning, Father of Sky, also known
as Uranus, gave birth to the Twelve Titans
in gaea mother of earth. The Titans included
Rhea and Cronus, mother, and father to Zeus.
Uranus locked up some of his children in the
Tartarus, which was a prison deep below the
earth. Gaea was very mad that Uranus had locked
up her children, so she made them a giant
weapon and told them to castrate their father. CRONUS was
the only child that would do as his mother
told him. So Cronus and his mother made a
plan to overthrow Uranus. Gaia asked Cronus
to castrate Uranus, to which Cronus agreed
and fulfilled the task.
Once Uranus was castrated, Cronus and Rhea
took over the throne. This was the period
of the Golden Age, which everyone seemingly
got along. Cronus and Rhea had five children:
Demeter, Hestia, Hades, Poseidon, and Hera.
Before the fall of Uranus, he made a prediction
that Cronus would be overthrown by his sons.
Because Cronus was afraid of losing the kingdom,
he made the same mistakes his father did and
turned into a terrible, angry king and did
lots of horrible things to stay in power.
He put his brothers back into prison and ate
his children, just to keep them from overthrowing
him. But Rhea, his wife, managed to fool Cronus
and keep one of his children safe. This child
was named Zeus. Rhea hid him away in a cave
on the island of Crete so he would be safe.
On the island, Zeus was raised by a goat,
named Amalthea.
Once Zeus grew up, he went to his father’s
mountain and served him as a cupbearer. His
father did not know that Zeus was his son.
A Titan goddess named Metis helped Zeus fool
his father into drinking a mixture of mustard
in his wine. This caused Cronus to feel sick,
and he threw up all of his children that he
had eaten, one by one. Once Cronus had expelled
all of Zeus’ brothers and sisters, Zeus
talked them into rebelling against Cronus,
their father.
This is what started the Titan’s War. Zeus
and his brothers and sisters rebelled against
his father, Cronus. Zeus set the CYCLOPES and
the Hecatonchires free from their underground
prison and convinced them to join the rebellion
against Cronus too. The Hecatonchires used
rocks as weapons, and the Cyclopes made Zeus’
thunderbolts. Together they also made POSEIDON‘s
trident and HADES‘ helm of darkness.
The only Titans to fight with Zeus were Themis
and Prometheus. This war lasted ten years.
After the war was over, Zeus imprisoned all
of the Titans, except for Themis and Prometheus
who fought for him. These Titans were imprisoned
in the earth the same way that Cronus, Hecatonchires
and the Cyclopes once were.
After the Titans’ War Zeus and his brothers,
Hades and Poseidon decided to divide the universe
into three parts. They drew straws to see
who would rule over which part. Zeus drew
the longest straw, so he was given the title
of king of the sky. This also meant that he
was the head of mortals and all the gods,
too. Poseidon got the middle straw, so he
became king of the sea. Hades drew the shortest
straw, so he became the ruler of the Underworld.
Once Zeus had reign over the earth, he decided
to ask Prometheus and Themis to create man
and animals to populate the earth as a new
generation of mortal beings. Themis created
animals, and Prometheus was given the job
of creating man. Themis took his job very
seriously and finished all of the animals
before Prometheus had even decided what gifts
to give mankind. By the time Prometheus was
ready to give mankind the gifts, Themis had
already used them all on the animals!
Prometheus was so angry that he stole the
godly fire back from Zeus, and gave it to
man. Zeus was so angry that he chained Prometheus
to a mountain forever. Zeus was still so angry
that he wanted to punish mankind. He did this
by creating a beautiful woman, named Pandora.
Pandora was given a box with a little bit
of each of the gods’ powers. Pandora then
married, and lived a very happy life, until
one day she got very curious. Pandora and
her husband decided to open the box.
When they opened this box, all the evils of
the world came spilling out. According to
Greek mythology, this is where we get pride,
envy, greed, pain, suffering and anything
bad. Pandora and her husband managed to close
the box before every horror escaped. They
only opened it one more time because the box
whispered that it had hope inside, and wanted
to let it out. They did open the box then,
and hope was released for all of mankind.
