How did the universe come into being according to the Olympian creation myth? Detailed answer

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How did the universe come into being according to the Olympian creation myth?

According to the Olympic myth of creation, at the beginning of all things, Gaia (earth) arose from Chaos, which from itself gave birth to Uranus (heaven), and then took him as a wife. Under his fecundating rain, she gave birth to herbs, flowers, and trees, as well as beasts and birds. From the same rain, rivers began to flow, and all the depressions were filled with water, forming seas and lakes. Further, Gaia and Uranus gave birth to six titans and six titanides (among which were Kronos and Rhea, the parents of Zeus), as well as three cyclops and three hundred-armed.

Hating the ugly Cyclops and the hundred-armed, Uranus did not let them out of the mother's womb, forcing Gaia to writhe in unbearable pain. To save his mother from suffering, Kronos, at her instigation, ruthlessly castrated Uranus, from whose blood monsters (giants, Erinyes), the nymphs Meliades and the beautiful Aphrodite were born.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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