Greek mythology
So in the beginning there was only chaos.
Then from the chaos came the first deities,
the primordials.
You probably know eros, whos basically cupid,
and nyx whos the goddess of the night, nobody
remembers who tartarus, erebus and hemera
is so never you mind them.
Youre gonna forget it anyways.
The most important one though, is mother earth,
gaia.
She was also the very first primordial deity,
and thus shes the original mother to all life
that exists.
Gaia had a child, called uranus, who is mostly
known for being the very first punchline of
jokes.
But he is also known as the personification
of the sky, the heaven daddy, and soon wedded
his mother gaia.
Uranus and gaia had many children together,
known as the titans.
No, were not at zeus and the boys in his pantheon
yet, we will get there soon, dont worry.
My personal way of remembering them all better,
is to separate them by three.
The primordials, such as gaia, the titans
such as her children which we will get to
now, and then lastly the olympians, zeus’
pantheon.
So, the titans.
Theres a bunch of them youve never heard of,
so once again im going to list them but only
talk about the most important ones.
Theres 6 men and 6 women, the men are oceanus,
coeus, crius, hyperion, lapetus and cronus,
and the women are theia, rhea, themis, mnemosyne,
phoebe and tethys.
There also came more later, like prometheus
and atlas, who are both cool enough for their
own video.
But for now, Of all of these children only
cronus and rhea are important, because they
together gave birth to the olympians, zeus’
pantheon.
But before they did that, gaia had decided
she wanted to castrate her husband uranus,
because he had imprisoned some of their children.
So with the help of her titan son cronus,
she gave him a sickle and had him do the deed
while gaia and uranus were fricking.
This was successful.
Cronus snipped off the whole package and threw
it into the ocean, where a magical foam from
the testicles created aphrodite, the goddess
of love and beauty.
After this, cronus and his sister rhea took
gaia and uranus’ place as the top dogs of
the world, and became king and queen.
Destiny and stuff is very important in greek
myth, and so cronus became extremely paranoid
that his future children would overthrow him,
and do the same thing he did.
So as soon as his and rheas kids popped out,
he immediately ate them.
Their children were demeter, the goddess of
agriculture, hestia who no one remembers but
basically the home, hera, the goddess of marriage,
hades the god of the dead, and poseidon the
god of the sea.
All of them got eaten, but when the sixth
child, zeus was born, rhea tricked cronus
into eating a stone instead, and hid zeus
away secretly.
There are many stories about how zeus was
raised in an order of which his father coulndt
find him.
One says he was dangled by a rope from a tree,
so he was between the heaven, earth and sea,
and thus not in uranus’ domains.
Another says he was simply just raised by
his grandmother gaia.
But my favourite is that he was raised in
a cave by a goat, while some armored dancers
clapped and made such loud noises that no
one could hear his wailing.
I dont know why, but my minds image of this
scenario is just so funny.
Either way, he was raised in secret, and just
like gaia was sick of uranus’ shit, rhea
was too getting fed up with her husband cronus’
shenanigans.
So rhea, gaia and zeus started scheming a
way to punish cronus for his heinous acts.
The plan was surprisingly and a bit disappointingly
simple.
Zeus simply made his father vomit all his
children out.
Then with the help of some of gaia and uranus
kids, zeus and his sibling gang overthrew
cronus, just like was prophesized, after a
war between the titans and zeus’ brothers
and sisters.
They would now be known as the original olympians.
Zeus took the crown as king, and hera as his
wife.
So once again, so you remember it, first theres
the primordials.
Gaia and uranus, mother earth and the sky
father.
Then there was the titans, cronus and rhea,
who castrated cronus.
Then lastly, theres the olympians, which consists
of zeus, hera, poseidon, hades and more youve
probably already forgotten about, and even
more of their children who would later join,
such as athena.
And thats the basics of the greek myth, that
everything else is tied to.
Do you want to know more about the various
niche gods, or about zeus’ adventures seducing
mortal women, or about legendary characters
like medusa, make sure to subscribe so you
get to see the videos when i post them.
Until then, i hope you have a great day, and
PEACE
