The beginning of all times

Very first of all, even before the notion of time and space were created, Chaos came into being, a crude and shapeless mass of elements revolving in continuous strife. Nyx (Night) filled the universe, who appeared together with his siblings Gaia (The Earth), gloomy Tartarus (The Depths) and Eros (Fertlity).

In the middle of such darkness, a feeling of profound loneliness took control of Gaia: nothing could stop her from a shivering pain. Her firstborn offspring was Uranus, the Sky, who immediately embraced his mother and covered her completely with his surrounding dimension. With this full mass spreading, incestuous feelings appeared; they soon became Mother Earth and Father Sky, parents of the immortal race of all blessed gods who were to rule the cosmos.

Out of this love came the strong and one-eyed Cyclopes, three invincible hundred-armed and fifty-headed monsters (know as the Hecatonchires) and the 12 Titans, with Cronus as the youngest and most terrible of the latter race.

Uranus despised his children: as each of them was born, he hid them in the depths of the earth and did not allow them to see the light. Mother Earth could no longer stand this behaviour; she found in young Cronus the perfect ally to ambush his abominable husband and recover her sons and daughters. With the help of a huge sickle her mother had given him, Cronus swiftly cut off his own father´s genitals and threw them to the swelling sea. Earth received all the bloody drops that fell, and when making contact with the land, strong Erinyes (the roman "Furies") and mighty Giants sprang. After being cast adrift for several days, Cronus´ genitals reached the shore of Cythera. White foam arose about from the immortal flesh and in it a beautiful goddess grew: Aphrodite (deity of the foam).

Cronus (roman Saturn) was now the ruler of the world.

Rhea, one of the Titanesses, was chosen by Cronus to become his beloved wife. They united and gave birth to a new race of gods: the Olympians. As Cronus had been told by the Oracle that he was to be out-powered by one of his sons, every time one of them came out of his mother´s womb, he swallowed his child.

Now Rhea felt lonely. While all the other 5 Titanesses played with their children, she had no son or daughter with whom to share her motherhood: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon were in Cronus´ stomach.

Together with Gaia and Uranus, Rhea plotted to take revenge on his child-eater husband: in the exact moment she bore the youngest of the Olympians, little Zeus (roman Jupiter / Jove), she hid him in the island of Crete. Deceiving mighty Cronus, she gave his husband a stone wrapped in infant´s coverings for Zeus, who immediately ended up in the deity´s belly. Soon baby Zeus became mature and was ready to take his father´s place. With the help of his mother, he made the ruler of Titans´s vomit his brothers and sisters, who joined him in his quest. Now it became the time to release the powerful and strong Cyclopes and Hecatonchires, whom Cronus had confined to the depths of the Earth time ago. It was a devastating 10-year battle; Titans vs Olympians in a fierce fight for supremacy (episode known as Titanomachy / Gigantomachy).

The Olympians prevailed.

With the war over, Zeus, ruler of all living gods, divided the kingdoms and designated among his brothers the sovereign to each part of the world: Hades (Pluto) would rule the Underworld and Poseidon (Neptune) the Water, while he himself would take the Land and Sky.

Now the world was in harmony, and ready to receive the first born mortal.

This "creation myth" we´ve just shared is a personal and subjective composite I´ve made grabbing different tales from Hesiod, Homer, Ovid and Aeschylus, authors who have made the best of contributions in trying to explain the genesis of the universe, the gods and humans.