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Greek Creation according to my book Gods & Goddess of Classicl Mytholoy

In the beginning, there was Chaos. The planets swirled and burned in darkness d the Earth sped through the galaxy. Born from this Chaos was Gaia, First of all the gods. Gaia was the Earth herself, but the planet was unformed when she first appeared. Gaia breathed life into the void and spread out her arms and legs, thereby creatng rivers, mountains, strems and plains. As he became more fully developed, Gaia yerned for both a mate and children. She gave birth first to Uranus, the Sky, who became her consort and lover.

The divine couple had three sets of children, known as the Titans, Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires. First came the twelve Titns, the youngest of whom was Chronus[Saturn]. Then Gaia bor the three Cyclopes: Arges, Brontes and Sterpes. Finally,she birthed the three Hecatoncheires: Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges. Urainus feared the size and strength of his children, who derived their primal strength from their mother. He locked them in Tartarus, the deep underworld, to keep himself safe from them. Furious over the containment of her children, Gaia descended to the Underworld and persuaded her youngest Titan Child, Crhonus, to rebeel against his father. Gaia provided the scythe with witch Cronus casterated his father; the dripping blood from Uranus's geitals fertilized Gaia yet again and she gave birth to the Furies, Gaints and Meliads (nymphs of ash trees).

Gaia presided over the marriage and family life of her children Cronus and Rhea [Ops], but when Cronus proved to be a tyrant like his father, she helped Rhea to conceal the infant Zeus [Jupiter]. Zeus overthrew his father, as Cronus had Uranus, and then chained the other Titans in Tartarus.

Grieving over this, the second imprisonment of her progeny, Gaia mated with Tartarus (The underworld) and gave birth to the many headed monster Typhon, whom she sent forth against Zeus. The struggles were fierce, but Zeus pervailed; he buried Typhon under the volcano at Aetna, in Sicily. Thus the Titans and other children of Gaia remained subordinate to the new Olympian gods and goddess. Gaia herself remained in the background, the ultimate Earth Mother, but no longer the object of direct worship by the Greeks. In her loyalty to her children and her assistance to Cronus and Zeus in the overthrow of their father's, she is one of the most primitive and elemental of the Greek divinities. Almost forgotten by later generations, she set the whole epic of the gods in motion.