The gods of ancient Hellas are very similar to people with all their flaws and vices. The supreme power vested in the Olympians made their whims and whims especially dangerous for mortals.
Children of Chaos
Before the creation of the world, according to the Hellenes, there was only an endless, silent void - Chaos. Out of Chaos, Earth-Gaea arose. In addition to it, Chaos gave rise to Night-Nocta and Dark Erebus. Nocta and Erebus produced the goddess of light Hemer and Ether - air. After this, Nocta went to Tartarus - the great abyss in the bowels of the Earth. Nocta and Hemera dominate the Earth, replacing each other.
In a dream, Gaia-Earth gave birth to the god of Heaven - the mighty Uranus. Uranus married Gaia, for which it is difficult to condemn him - there simply was no choice.
Children of Uranus and Gay
The first-born of Gaia and Uranus were the fifty-headed hundred-armed Hekatonheirs - Cott, Gies and Briaria. Then 3 Cyclops brothers were born (in the Russian transcription of Cyclops), giants with one eye in the middle of the forehead - Arg, Bronte and Sterop. The aesthetic feeling of Uranus was offended by the peculiar appearance of his sons, and he plunged them into Tartarus.
Then the divine couple gave birth to a dozen beautiful titans and titanids, immortal and powerful. Titans and titanides became the parents of other inhabitants of Olympus.
Kron
Gaia, like a loving mother, could not reconcile with the imprisonment of older children in the terrible Tartarus and suggested that the older titans overthrow their father and release the brothers. The younger, Krona, who dreamed of becoming king of the world, Gaia armed with a sickle. The Titans, in addition to the senior Ocean, attacked the sleeping father, and Cronus sprinkled with weapons received from his mother. From the drops of blood of the god of Heaven that fell to Earth, the terrible goddess of vengeance was born - Erinia Alekto, Tisiphon and Meger.
Uranus predicted the insidious offspring that he would fall at the hands of his own son.
The rebellious titans liberated the Cyclopes and the Hecatonheirs and gave Cronus power over the world. However, the cunning Kron, having defeated, again plunged the firstborn of Earth and Sky into Tartarus.
Zeus
Cronus married the titanide Ray. He could not forget the prophecies of Crohn and therefore swallowed all his newborn children: Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter. To save another baby, Zeus, Ray wrapped a diaper in a stone and slipped it into an illegible spouse.
Zeus, on the other hand, put her mother in a golden cradle and hung it on a tall pine tree on the island of Crete so that Kron would not find a child in heaven or earth. The infant was guarded by the warriors-kurets, the sons of Gaia. Each time the baby began to cry, the soldiers beat their shields with swords and started dancing with dashing exclamations to drown out the crying.
The divine goat Amalthea fed Zeus with its milk, and the bees fed honey. Matured Zeus attacked his father, took power from him and forced his beloved brothers and sisters to burp.
Hera
The wife of Zeus was Hera, daughter of Crohn and Rhea. This union can hardly be called particularly happy: the amorous Zeus was constantly carried away by other goddesses, then nymphs, and even mortal women. Hera did not dare to openly scandal with a powerful spouse, but she constantly avenged her rivals in the most cruel ways. This is probably why the ancient Greeks considered her the patroness of marital unions and responsible for procreation.
Poseidon
Zeus gave possession of seawater to his brother Poseidon. Poseidon married the nymph Amphitrite, and also did not differ in loyalty to his wife. Many of his sons terrified mortals: the monstrous Minotaur, Cyclops Polyphemus, the robber Skyron, and the strongman Antei.
Hades
Zeus gave the kingdom of the dead to another brother, Hades. Hades never went up to Olympus, to his divine relatives, and ruled the underworld with his wife Persephone, whom she had stolen from her mother, the goddess of fertility Demeter. Although Hades remained faithful to his wife, he could not be called happy either: the beautiful goddess was forced to spend half her life in the dark world of shadows. Persephone spent the spring and summer, with the decision of the gods, with her mother.
