Greek Mythology/Stories/The Creation

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first there was only Chaos. Then came Gaea (earth), Tartarus, and Eros (love). Gaea first bore Uranus (heaven). Then she brought forth Hills, haunts of nymphs the Sea and the titans, including Cronus, the youngest. Uranus didnt like that Gaea was bringing forth these monsters so he decided not to let any more be born. Gaea didnt like this. She decided to have Cronus castrate his father with a jagged sickle. Cronus threw the severed members behind him and from the bloody drops earth conceived the Furies, Giants and Nymphs of the Ash-trees. The bloody members were then washed to sea where, from the frothy foam, Aphrodite was born.

Cronus then began to fear for his own life when he was given a propecy that one of his own children (birthed by Rhea) would overcome him as he did with his father. So he ate them one by one as they were delivered by Rhea. When Zeus was born, however, Rhea quickly hid him and gave Cronus a rock wrapped in a blanket instead.

The furies of the Gods
attend to mortals,
to keep us in our place.
Oh, the stories they tell!

Of mother Rhea
hiding her youngest son
in a cave in the island of Crete, 
defying Cronus the Titan.

Zeus, full-grown,
rescues Poseidon and Hades
from his father`s vomitus
with Hestia, Demeter and Hera.

The Titans fall before
their children;
father vanquished
imprisoned in Tartarus.

Spoils shared by brothers;
Hades the Underworld,
Poseidon the Sea,
Zeus the Sky and Earth.

The story retold in Genesis
as the God of Earth and Sky
Creates his children,
Yet dares them to defy
His dicta.

Adam and Eve,
striving for immortality,
oppose His will,
thus freeing theirs.

But oh, the price of
knowledge
in the presence 
of their mortality;
only half Gods,
the abyss immutably
beckons.

Yet among them,
the fearless,
from Lascoux to
Argentuil;
The Artists who draw
Courage
from their Creations
and thus become
immortal. 

Deabler, V.T.