HUM 140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cacus, Erymanthian Boar, Stymphalian Birds
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The creation of the titans and the gods. Gaea, tartarus, and eros appeared from the emptiness that was chaos. Uranus, who became her equal as father sky, ourea, who became the mountains, and. Gaea married uranus and they had the three hundred- Handed giants, each with fifty heads and fifty arms sprouting from either shoulder and three cyclops who later built mount olympus. Uranus was afraid of his powerful children so he threw each one into the middle of the earth where they fell for nine days and nine nights. Gaea was angry but hid her feelings until she could get revenge on. Gaea gave birth to thirteen titans including helios, selene, oceanus, themis, Cronus, rhea, atlas, prometheus, and epimetheus who married pandora, a human. Gaea instructed her sons to punish their father with a sharp stone and cronus was the only one that obeyed.
