GREEK MYTHOLOGY – MOUNT OLYMPUS

In the beginning everything was chaos. The universe was immense and dark, and from this vacuum emerged Gaia, the Earth, Tartarus, the God of the underworld, and Eros, the God of love.

Gaia, the original mother of the Gods and all living things, was begotten from herself and Uranus, the God of the sky, from where the rain which gives life to nature comes.

But this harmony between the earth and the sky, Gaia and Uranus, was broken because of Uranus’ fear of being overthrown by his own children, which is why he confined them to their mother’s womb, except for Cronos (known as Saturn in Roman times).

In order to take revenge on his father and to make sure he didn’t have any more offspring, Cronos cut off Uranus’ genitals and threw them into the sea, but when he did so, Aphrodite, the Goddess of love, was born. In this way Cronos took power, but Uranus put a curse on him so that he would suffer the same disgrace as him, to be overthrown by one of his own sons.

For this reason, Cronos, knowing about the prophecy that he would stop being the supreme God, decided to devour his own children, except for Zeus. This son was saved by his mother at birth, as she showed Cronos a stone wrapped in a sheet, making him believe that Zeus had already died.

So Zeus, saved by his mother and sent to the island of Crete, was brought up on the goat’s milk of Amalthea and protected by the nymphs. Zeus decided to return to Greece in order to take revenge on his father and overthrow him, and through a potion that made his father vomit, he brought his brothers back to life.

From that moment on, Zeus was proclaimed King of all the Gods and of the Earth, and he established a new order in the world and set up the headquarters of his Kingdom on Mount Olympus. By sharing the world with his brothers, Hades became the God of the Underworld and Poseidon became the God of the Sea.