Post by phoebehalliwell on Jan 4, 2007 15:58:21 GMT -5
It's been almost 200 years since Hera married Zeus. All those years were surrowned in hatred mixed with lust. But now the queen of Greece realised she can over power him...and meet a new love...
|| The Story of The Titans ||
A dark tale which proves not even gods are perfect. The arguments, the love, the lust, the betrayls...it all mixed to create the family brought upon the world by almighty Chaos, who produced Gaia and Uranus who bo re deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion,Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronus the wily, youngest and most terrible of their children, and he hated his lusty sire.
Uranus considered Cronos monstrous, and imprisoned him in the bowels of the Earth. Cronos was aided by the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes, who then set upon his father, castrated him, and set himself as king of the gods, with Rhea as his wife and queen.
Rhea gave birth to a new generation of gods to Cronos, but, in fear that they too would eventually overthrow him, he swallowed them all one by one. Only Zeus was saved: Rhea gave Cronus a stone in swaddling clothes in his place, and placed the infant Zeus in Crete to be guarded by the Kouretes.
Once Zeus reached adulthood, he subdued Cronus by wile rather than force, using a potion concocted with the help of Gaia, his grandmother, to forcibly cause Cronus to vomit up Zeus's siblings. A war between younger and older gods commences, in which Zeus is aided by the Hecatonchires, Gigantes, and Cyclopes, who have once again been freed from Tartarus. Zeus wins after a long struggle, and casts many of the Titans down into Tartarus.
And yet the older gods leave their mark on the world: Oceanus continues to encircle the world, and the name of "bright shining" Phoebe was attached as an epithet to effulgent Apollo, "Phoebus Apollo". Some of them had not fought the Olympians and became key players in the new administration: Mnemosyne as a Muse, Rhea, Hyperion, Themis, or the "right ordering" of things and Metis.
|| The Twelve Olympians ||
The Olympians gained their supremacy in the world of gods after Zeus led his siblings to victory in war with the Titans; Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, and Hades were siblings; all other Olympians are usually the children of Zeus by various mothers. Hephaestus was born of Hera alone as Hera's revenge for Zeus' various affairs.
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