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Chaos In Greek Mythology
According the Greek Mythology, a god called Chaos was living in a world of emptiness. Chaos was tortured the empty space, so he used his flesh and made 4 children called Gaea, Tartarus, Eros, Pontus and Erebus. Gaea was the god of Earth, Tartarus was destination of wicked souls, Eros was the god of love, Pontus was the god of sea, and Erebus was the god of darkness. Gaea later gave birth to Uranus( the god of heaven9 and married him. Gaea and Uranus gave birth to Hecatonchires, the Cyclopes and the Titans. Uranus thought that his children were too powerful, one day, they might surmount the Mount Olympus and revolt against him since he obtained the throne at the time, so Uranus tossed his children into the depth of Tartarus. Gaea was sorry for …show more content…
The 3 intrepid brothers fought against Cronus and at last locked him at the underworld. Zeus is the personification of sky, Poseidon is the personification of ocean, Hades is the personification of hell, Hera is the personification of marriage, Demeter is the personification of agriculture, and Hestia is the personification of warmth. After Zeus married Hera, he also married other goddesses which he was fond of. Apollo, the god of medicine, Athena, the god of wisdom, Aries, the god of war, Hephaestus, the god of weapon, Hermes, the god of thief, Aphrodite, the god of beauty, and Dionysus, the god of wine. Other than Hades, all 4 siblings of Zeus including Zeus himself makes the 12 Olympians. A Titan named Prometheus created human, he made great devotion to the history of human. Zeus made out with many human, and most of his ‘half-blood’ children were were heroes. Zeus stayed a permanent leader in the Greek Mythology, he is the true king of

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