Greek mythology - the science is very complex and interesting.Unfortunately, not everyone who knows her highlights, mark the beginning of the gods began.
Like many other nations, the Greeks say the initial chaos, tsarivshem in the universe.After him come the future of all the divine ancestors of the characters - the first Titans, Uranus and Gaia.Dominating the living world, they constantly produce offspring.Uranium is a very passionate man, but that's chadolyubiya it is clearly not enough, the first of his sons - Hecatonchires and Cyclops - fall from grace: the power of fear of their own children, he sends them into Tartarus.Of course, his mother - Gaia - is upset, but because his next son, Crohn's disease, she poduchivaet to overthrow his father and take his opportunity to have offspring by castration.
future father Zeus around to listen to your mother, and succeeds.But the mother suddenly he predicts that it will fall at the hands of his own son.
Now myths tell of following the divine couple - Krone and Rhea.Gone prolific father, obsessed with the fear of accident, and therefore devours its own children.But this is what causes trouble - longing for his descendants Ray saves one of his sons, to feed him, instead of the usual cobblestone beloved husband.Born
the young god was one of the caves of Crete - where, according to his mother, Cronus would not seek it.According to legend, she was suffering in silence flour, plunging his fingers into the earth, and the entrance while guarding Kuret.Leaving her son in the care of these amazing creatures, Ray returned to her husband.Over time, the Cave of Zeus became known and popular among people.Today, any tourist caught in Greece, could visit her.
unsuspecting father Zeus lives, as before, while one of his children saves power and hatred to get even with the killer brothers and sisters.
And this time has come.Zeus grew and became strong watered his father a special potion causes him to regurgitate swallowed earlier children (who, by the way, were able to grow into his womb).Of course, rescued the gods and goddesses are grateful to the savior, but because with it go to war against the tyrant, to whom, and was the father of Zeus - Crown Infanticide.
However, the war was much more complex and longer than everyone expected.Titans appeared extremely powerful and cunning opponents.But in the end, the young gods were still able to gain the upper hand, and the father of Zeus, was sent to Tartarus own son.
But Zeus himself was with his brothers and sisters on Mount Olympus - highest mountain, leaving the apex in the sky.The wise and childlike, clever and gracious, lovely and hot-tempered, they began their own lives, and the god Zeus - the great Thunderer - was the eldest among them.
What is most interesting, the Greeks themselves, despite the apparent equanimity to all stages of its mythological history, the golden age is the period when all the rights and Ray Crone.According to legend, the people and then themselves were largely similar to the gods - they did not know grief and loss, the time was not to the same extent power over them, there was no need to work, all living souls possessed purity and intelligence - extraordinary clarity and penetrating.
