1. Creation Story, Cronus and
Rhea
Birth of Zeus

2. According to Greek mythology, in the
beginning there was nothing.
This was called Chaos.

3. From this nothingness came light,

4. Mother Earth (Gaia),

5. and Sky (Uranus)
were formed.

6. From Gaia and Uranus came six twins
known as the Titans.

7. The six twin Titans were named
Oceanus (god of the sea) and Thethys,

8. Coeos and Phoebe,

9. Hyperion and Thea,

10. Creos and Themis,

11. Iapetos and Clymene,

12. And finally Cronus (strongest god) and
Rhea…

13. Gaia and Uranus also gave birth to three
Cyclopes, three giants, each with fifty heads
and one-hundred arms.

14. Uranus disliked his offspring, so he forced
them to return to their mother’s womb.

15. The pain of carrying the numerous children
angered Gaia, and she made a plan for revenge
against Uranus. She called upon the Titans to
help her. The youngest, Cronos (master of
time), came to her aid.

16. Cronos, with his mother’s help,
created a sickle
and cut off his father’s genitals when his
father came to be with his mother.

17. Cronos cast the cut off genitals
into the sea.

18. According to some versions of the myth,
the goddess Aphrodite was created from
the blood that dropped into the sea.

19. In addition some of the blood
dropped on to the earth

20. creating all types of scary
offspring …

21. After defeating his father,
Cronos married his sister Rhea.

22. The two had six children: Hestia,

23. Demeter,

24. Hera,

25. Hades,

26. Poseidon

27. and Zeus…

28. Cronos, after each birth, swallowed the
first five children

29. because of a …
that claimed one of his children would overthrow him.

30. Rhea tricked Cronos with the sixth child. Zeus,
instead of handing Cronos the child, she gave
him a rock in a blanket.

31. Cronos swallowed it believing it was the
baby. Rhea then smuggled the baby Zeus
to the island of Crete

32. to be raised by nymphs..

33. Later Zeus would return to defeat his
father in the battle between the
Olympians and the Titans.