The Beginning of Time

One of my topics this summer is Greek Myths and Legends.  I am going to write more about this, but I will first start with the beginning of time.  It all started like this.  Before anything there was complete nothingness called Chaos.  After a while, Earth was born from Chaos.  Her name was Gaea.  Earth did not have much on her yet.  She did not water, humans, or animals.  Soon though,  she fell in love with Uranus, the lord of the universe.  He loved her and rained water on her which created seas, rivers, ponds, lakes, and allowed plants to grow.  She became Mother Earth.  Gaea and Uranus had several children.  Their first set of children were three creatures that had fifty heads and one-hundred arms.  The second set were the one eyed Cyclopes.  These creatures were huge, good at blacksmithing, and had one eye in the middle of their foreheads.  There were six of these creatures.  One of the last children of Gaea were the twelve Titans (gods).  They were more human-like and were a bit wiser than their siblings.  There were six boys and six girls.  Mother Earth loved all her children, but Uranus was repulsed by the Cyclopses and threw them into the deepest pit in the Underworld, Tartarus.  Gaea was deeply saddened by the cruelty that was taken out on her children and decided to destroy Uranus.  She created a sickle and gave it to Cronus, the most powerful child of the Titans, and the god of time.  Cronus sliced his father to bits as his mother instructed him to do.  Finally, Uranus gave up his powers which made Cronus was the lord of the universe.  This was great, but he did not rule for long.
That concludes the first story, The Beginning of Time.  As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, this is not the end.  There will be more stories about these myths, but this is only the end of one.  Until next time!

-Julie Shiroma