Greek mythology tells stories about the immortal gods of ancient Greece.
Gods, demigods, monsters, other mythical creatures, extraordinary heroes, and ordinary people. Many of the gods, especially the 12 Olympians, had different names for the functions they served.
In the beginning, there was only Chaos and nothing else. Chaos was not a god, but rather a force, an element, born of itself and composed of itself, and has existed since the beginning of the universe. From this primordial chaos came other elements or principles such as Love, Earth, and Heaven. Then another generation. The Titans.
The next generations in Greek mythology will be much more human-like. The Titans were the children of the goddess Gaia (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven).
The gods and goddesses of Olympus were the children of the Titans born later, that is, the grandchildren of Earth and Heaven. The Titans and the Olympians will come into conflict. This war will be called the Titanomachy. The battle was won by the Olympians, but the titans left their mark on history, through Atlas the giant who holds the world on his shoulders.
Gaia and Uranus, the Earth and the Sky, were considered forces of the elements.
They produced numerous offspring: monsters with 100 arms, cyclops with one eye, and the Titans. The earth was very sad because Heaven did not want to let its children see the light of day. So she made a sickle that her son Cronus used to separate the sky from the earth. This is how the “male organ” was cut, and the goddess of love, Aphrodite, emerged from this foam. From the blood of Heaven came the spirits of Vengeance — the Furies.
There are various stories about the beginning of humans in the mythology of ancient Greece. The 8th-century BC Greek poet Hesiod talks about the creation myth. This myth is called The Five Ages of Man. It is about the Five Ages. It describes how people move away from an ideal paradise-like state. Humanity was created and destroyed repeatedly in mythological times.
In Greek mythology, the titan Prometheus will steal fire and give it to mankind. The result was the wrath of Zeus. Prometheus was chained to a rock and tortured for eternity. To punish humanity as well, Zeus sent all the evils to the world in the form of Pandora’s box. And about the women of Athens, it was said that they were the descendants of Pandora.
Although the worship of gods was common thousands of years ago, the fascination with Greek mythology is still popular in our culture today. In ancient Greece, the gods were responsible for creating and ruling the world.
Ancient history has many wars to remember, ruins, and archaeology, but these myths contain fundamental human truths and the foundations of our culture.