THEOGONY
THE GENESIS OF GODS

Ancient Greeks, these great story-tellers with the great imagination and endless humor, in their trying to explain some materializations, they weaved many myths. Ofcourse they worked on the begining of the world and the genesis of the many Gods they had. With their rich imaginations they built huge genealogies that reveiled the ancestors of the 12 Olympian Gods and all the smaller ones. Also reveiled how Zeus became the leader of all Gods in the Greek mythology

According to Homer the writer of the Trojan war and the adventures of Odyseas, father of gods was OCEANOS (ocean) who was around the whole universe. From him and his wife TITHI came all the gods. Homer presents him as a qyite old man who never interfears with the problems of gods or mortals

More completed is the myth that ISIODOS tells us in his THEOGONIA (genesis of gods) for the begining of the world and the stern of gods. In the begining  it was CHAOS, EARTH and EROTAS. These 3 gods had no relation among them, they just lived together. CHAOS was dark with no sign of life. Total silince was everywhere. This scarry dark creature had no start and no end. Everything there was just black.

In this immenseness of the cosmic time, without a love action came EREVOS and NIHTA (night). They were also black and dark with huge wings, and they were just standing facing each other. The only difference they had with Chaos was that they had begining and ending. Maybe you needed years to go from the one end to the other but you could find an end. They were huge but you could mesure them. Total silence was all around the universe, until EROTAS came, the last of the 3 primal gods. Then he start to talk to the others and the silence that excisted since then in the universe, broke at last. They started to talk to each other and after a while AITHERAS was born. He was bright and shinny with wonderful wings, huge also but with harmonically members and smiling. With his brightness managed to bring some light into the, until then, dark universe. After a while HMERA (day) was born. A blonde female with white wings. When Aitheras saw another creature bright like him was very happy. They started to play in the universe happy, around the planets and the meteorits, bringing joy to the universe.

AITHERAS represented for the ancient Greeks the upper place of the atmosphere, the cleanest place of the air. IMERA represented the "day", the part of day that sun always shine.

They say that later, from the night, 2 other gods came up. YPNOS (sleep) and THANATOS (death). Two very close brothers. Close to them and close to us also. Also 2 goddesses were born, APATH (cheat) and ERIDA (argument). Apati was possesing the humans making them doing horrible things and Erida was puting people and gods in great arguments. Her horrible kids were PONOS (pain) , LITHI (FORGETFULNESS), PEINA (hunger), MAHES (the battles), FONOI (the murders), DYSNOMIA (illegality) and ORKOS (vow) that gives us so much troubles in our life. After that, Gaia (earth), that was sleeping in the Chaos, born also OURANOS (the sky), ORI (mountains) and PONTOS. First Gaia born Ouranos that was biger than her, he enclosed her and his great arms surrounded the hol star system

He was such a beautiful god, big and blue, that Gaia fell in love with him and she joined him. From their relationship many gods were born

After a while, Gaia started to have great pains and it was like a war was going on in her belly. Giants started to grow in her skin, very big with ugly shape. These were the ORI (mountains) that were giving Gaia for many centurys great pains. Gaia was putting all her effords to get rid of her new sons. she never liked them because of the pain they were causing her. But she could do nothing. the more she was trying, the more she was paining. At the end she decided to live with them adherent in her body from the day they were born

After some time, Gaia felt something moving in her belly again but this time she had the feeling that it was something nice. So in a while PONTOS (sea) jumpt from her body and surrounded her with his blue body. He enclosed her in his big arms. Gaia was proud of her new son that other times he was peacefull and other times powerfull and lathered with his huge waves

They also say that after Ouranos was defeated by CRONOS, Gaia had relations with her second son also. From this relation came all the gods and goddesses that represent the water like the rivers the lakes and everything liquid.

Kids of Pontos and Gaia were NIREAS of the water, THAYMOS the great, EYRIVIA the powerful, FORKIS and KITO for the beasts of the sea. Nireas mate with DORIDA, a daughter of OCEANOS (ocean) and with her he had 50 daughters, the NIRIIDES (sea-fairies), that protected the sailors and were living in the seacaves. Thavmos mated with ILEKTRA another daughter of Oceanos, and IRIS was born, the representation of the colors of the rainbow. The horible ARPIES were born also. AELO, THYELA (storm) and OKIPETI (fastwings). Forkis and Kito mated together and brought in the world the 2 GRAIES two old women from their birth and the three GORGONES (mermaids)

Gaia symbolized for the Greeks an endless power of fertility. She was the world MOTHER and mother of gods.

EROTAS, the third from the primal gods, was not EROS or EROTAS the son of AFRODITE (venus) the little man who was shoting arrows in the hearts of people bringing them love. Erotas was a big power of attraction that was bringing everyone closer like before with Erevos and Nyhta. He was very powerful and everybody loved him but he was the onlyone who did not have any kids of his own.