Chaos came first. From Chaos came Nox (Nyx. Night) and Erebus (Darkness).
Love was born from Nox and Erebus.
Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day) sprang from Love.
Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven) then came forth.
Gaea and Uranus had many children. The first of these were monsters, three of them were cyclopes (The Wheel-Eyed) and three others were huge and strong, with fifty heads and fifty arms. Second were the Titans. These were Cronos, Rhea, Ocean, Coeus, Phoebe, Tethys, Mnemosyne, Themis, Iapetus and Hyperion. The last of their children was a monster, Typhon, who had a hundred heads.
Uranus was castrated by Cronos. When Cronos' blood fell upon the earth and giants and the Erinyes (The Furies) were born.
Cronos married Rhea and had many children. Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Posiedon, Hades, and Zeus. Cronos swallowed all of the children except Zeus. Rhea gave Cronos a rock is swaddling cloth and Cronos swallowed that. Rhen and Zeus made a drink and Cronos threw up all the children. Zeus then killed Cronos.
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