What is the story of the most well-known Greek Gods?
The story of the most well-known Greek Gods starts with the Titans, children of the Primordial deities, Gaia and Ouranos. Kronos, the youngest of his brethren, had married Rhea, who had sired his six children, all of them, gods, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia. When Zeus was in hiding, however, there was also another child of Kronos born, Chiron the Centaur, born of the Titan King, Kronos and a nymph Philyra. While the gods, their godly children and other gods and goddesses before them would rule Olympus in the near future, Chiron would be a trainer of heroes.
Kronos ruled the galaxy during what is now known as the Golden Age. Kronos was the king of the Titans and the god of time. He soon learned of a prophecy, that his son would overthrow him, he found a solution to this problem, he swallowed each of his children as they were born. His wife Rhea, betrayed her husband and hid the last child, Zeus, on the island of Crete. Feeding Kronos a rock wrapped in a babies garments. Years later, Zeus confronted his father, forcing his him to release his siblings, who had grown up in the stomach of their father.
This started the Titan war that lasted ten long years, Zeus’ siblings had joined him, and when Zeus released Kronos' brother cyclopes and hecatonchires because of a suggestion from Gaia, they sided with Zeus. The newly released brethren of Kronos constructed the three most powerful weapons given to the three biggest or most powerful gods, for Zeus, his lightning bolt, for Poseidon, his trident, and for Hades, his helm of darkness. All of these useful when Kronos and his army attacked, eventually losing, all of the Titans except the two, Prometheus and Themis, who had supported Zeus, were imprisoned in the earth as the cyclopes and the hecatonchires had been. Atlas, a Titan, who had been a major supporter of Kronos, had been sentenced to a worse punishment, being forced to hold up the sky.
Now, this makes me wonder…
What is the story of the other gods and goddesses, the ones that had been there since the beginning?
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