Reflections on Myth Chapters 2-6

By far my favorite chapter in our Myth and Knowing Book is chapter 2 which involves our Creation myths. My favorite creation myth is the Greek one where we go from Chaos to Gaea, mother Earth then the Titans and finally the Olympians. As the story goes, Gaea and the sky Uranus were born from chaos along with the ocean. Uranus and Gaea had children but Uranus favored some over others. Uranus angered Gaea when he imprisoned his more grotesque children like the hundred-armed Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus which is the Greek version of Hell.
Gaea creates a great stone sickle and Kronos was given the task of using the sickle by cutting off his father's genitals. After castrating his father, Kronos discarded Uranus' genitals into the sea where new creatures were conceived. From the blood or semen that spilled out from Uranus' genitals came the Furies which were the Greek spirits of vengeance for crimes committed. Soon after Aphrodite, the goddess of love sprang forth from the sea. After killing his father, Kronos betrayed Gaea by imprisoning his deformed brothers again in Tartarus. Kronos and his sister Rhea took the throne of the world as king and queen. Kronos figured he was destined to be overthrone by his own children just as he did his father.

Kronos decided to eat his newborn children thereby imprisoning them in his belly. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in a cave on Mount Ida, Crete where Gaea kept Zeus hidden while Rhea gave the Omphalos Stone wrapped in swaddling clothes for Kronos to devour. Zeus would be raised by a goat named Amalthea while a company of Kouretes, armored male dancers, shouted and clapped their hands to make enough noise to mask the baby's cries from Kronos.
When Zeus grew up, he took his revenge my rallying his monstrous uncles from Tartarus and Gaea helped him poison Kronos long enough for Kronos to vomit up his brothers and sisters. During the war between Titans and Olympians, Gaea creates Typhon, a dragon like beast, as retribution towards Zeus after he imprisoned some of the Titans in Tartarus. Zeus eventually defeated Typhon by dropping Mt. Edna on him. As for Echidna, Typhon’s mate, she was allowed to live in order to breed her monstrous brood as challenges for future heroes. Finally, the Olympians had taken their rightful place on Mt. Olympus. The Greek myth of creation is by far my favorite myth compared to any other.