When Zeus was born, Rhea gave Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes in his place, which Cronus swallowed, and she took the child into her care. But when Rhea was pregnant with her youngest child, Zeus, she sought help from Gaia and Uranus. From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite.īy her son Pontus, she bore the sea-deities Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia.īecause Cronus had learned from Gaia and Uranus that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children, he swallowed each of the children born to him by his Titan sister Rhea. And Cronus used the sickle to castrate his father Uranus as he approached Gaia to have sex with her.įrom Uranus’ spilled blood, Gaia produced the Erinyes, the Giants and the Meliae ( ash-tree nymphs). She created a grey flint ( or adamantine) sickle. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.Īccording to Hesiod, She conceived further offspring with Uranus, first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes ( “Thunder”), Steropes ( “Lightning”) and Arges ( “Bright”) then the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyges, each with a hundred arms and fifty heads.Īs each of the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires were born, Uranus hid them in a secret place within her, causing her great pain. She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.
Gaia also bore the hills ( Ourea), and Pontus ( Sea), “ without sweet union of love” ( i.e., with no father).Īfterward, with Uranus she gave birth to the Titans, as Hesiod tells it: He then tells that She brought forth her equal Uranus ( Heaven, Sky) to “ cover her on every side” and to be the abode of the gods. Hesiod’s Theogony tells how, after Chaos, “ wide-bosomed” Gaia ( Earth) arose to be the everlasting seat of the immortals who possess Olympus above, and the depths of Tartarus below ( as some scholars interpret it).
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