In time before time,
there was only shapeless chaos,
swirling,
churning nothing.
Everything
presiding over a permanent dark.
Out of that dark,
two children formed,
Night and
Erebus,
the deepness
where death resides,
all else was void.
And so it was
for Eons to come.
[Opening theme]
Then,
from the impossibly vast terror of roiling form,
a new being came to be.
Out of night
and the depth of death sprang love.
And once there is love,
form begins.
And Gaia,
Earth,
comes to be
but earth cannot exist in void and chaos indistinct.
So Earth bears forth the firmament
the Stars and heavens that will eventually house the gods,
and Pontus
the Great Sea,
and the Earth and the heavens together brought forth life.
Horrible,
monstrous life.
Three primordial beings,
as large as mountains,
emerged from the world,
each rearing fifty heads.
They crawled across the ground with their great bulk
and as they passed,
the seas churned, and the earth heaved. And
as they looked about with their hundred eyes, and felt with their hundred hands
the world shuddered.
They were the chthonic things,
who by dragging their unthinking mass
carved the oceans.
and thrust up the mountains
With them
three other beings were raised
The Cyclops
the wheel eyed.
each having one enormous eye
as large as a wheel in the center of their vast forehead.
They too were gigantic beings
looming over the land.
Thereafter came the Titans,
powerful and massive.
the first creatures with which humanity can begin to relate
but the firmament
which had brought forth these creatures with Gaia
was disgusted
by the hundred handed beasts,
and though they were his sons,
imprisoned them deep within the earth.
Gaia writhed in pain,
and with fury at this treatment of her sons,
and called on her other children for aid.
Only one of them though,
Chronos,
the first among the Titans,
was bold enough to oppose their father the sky.
for him,
Gaia formed a great adamantite sickle,
and bade him lie in wait for his father,
and as the sky came to mate again with Gaia,
Chronos leapt forth and dealt him a grievous blow with his sickle.
and as the sky bled,
the drops it scattered on the ground.
created another race of monsters
the Giants,
whose stature was fearful to behold.
and the Furies.
the Erinyes,
Whose task it was to hunt down the wicked and punish those guilty of blood crimes and the breakers of oaths.
When Chronos cast his father's flesh into the sea
from the foam Rose Aphrodite.
thus,
with the wounding of his father.
Cronos became the master of all that was
He imprisoned the Cyclops, and reimprisoned to the hundred handed ones,
bringing peace.
He ruled with his sister queen Rhea,
but after a time
He learned something that would disturb that peace
from his mother and father
He discovered that,
just as he had overthrown his father
one of his children would overthrow him
To prevent this prophecy from coming to pass
he did what any logical Titan would do in this situation
He devoured his children
consuming them.
So they would not threaten his reign
but in time
Rhea, his queen,
called upon Gaia to help her devise a plan so that her children might live,
and that they did.
The plan was simple
when her sixth child,
Zeus, was born
in place of the baby
Raya gave Chronos a stone wrapped in a swaddling cloth
Which he swallowed whole
I guess his highly discerning child eating palette never realized the substitution
In time,
Zeus grew.
and returned to enact vengeance upon his father
He became Chronos's cupbearer
until one day, He slipped Chronos a poison
which made him vomit forth his brothers and sisters.
With his newly regurgitated siblings at his side,
He then rebelled against Chronos
and his Titans.
He freed the imprisoned cyclopses
and the great primordial beasts with fifty heads and a hundred hands
The cyclopses were great Smiths,
and forged for him Thunderbolts to use in his war with Chronos.
The hundred handed beasts
hurled great boulders
a hundred at a time at the Titans.
For ten years the battle raged
but at last,
the Titans are overthrown.
They are imprisoned
cast into Tartarus
the bleak pit far below the ground
all except three
Atlas one of the chief generals of the Titans and the strongest among them
Zeus made hold apart the heavens and the earth
To keep Gaia and the sky from returning to their primordial embrace
to others alone escaped Zeus's wrath
Prometheus
named forethought
Wisest of the Titans
and his brother Epimetheus
or afterthought
due to Prometheus's wisdom
They had not gone to war against Zeus
and so Zeus let them remain with the gods
But the world was not yet at peace
because the Giants took up war with the gods
and this was in the Age of Heroes
When men born of gods and mortal beings walked the earth
Heroes who were nearly as far above man today as the gods themselves
and of these heroes
Heracles took arms with the gods
and with his bow
slew the Giants
Yet there was one more horror
that awaited the Olympians
for Gaia was yet pregnant with one more child
Typhon.
This was the greatest of the beasts
She ever bore.
with a hundred heads
and snakes coming out of its shoulders
all flickering with flame along their Dragons tongues
One that would feel right at home on a metal album cover!
[Guitar Noises]
Excuse me
something in my throat
It spewed fire
and laid waste to all around it and was nearly the ruin of Zeus
for when they engaged in battle
He was near evenly matched
but having mastered the Thunderbolts
he burned the Serpent's heads to ash and
Turned to cinder the giant frame of this new monster
Taming the world
and at last
bringing peace.
and with this peace,
He turned to prometheus and his brother with a task.
to fashion the men and beasts of the next age.
for the Age of Heroes
had faded from the world
and that my friends
is just half the story
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