Métis Nation Saskatchewan – War of the gods

This month, we’re going back in time to the beginnings of Greek mythology. This day’s story is going to be about the Titanomachy, or the war between the Titans and the Olympians. The Titans hold been the popular Greek gods and hold been led by Cronus, the god of time. Rhea, the goddess of motherhood and fertility, became Cronus’ partner. There hold been 12 Titans, including Oceanus, the god of sea; Hyperion, the god of light; and Lapetus, the god of Mortality.

Cronus became the son of Uranus (heaven) and Gaia (Earth). Uranus had imprisoned the Cyclops (one-eyed giants) and the Hecatonchires (creatures with 100 arms and 50 heads) and this made Gaia furious. She impressed Cronus to overthrow his father.

When the blood of Uranus fell on earth, the Gigantes (ample monsters), the Erinyes (three female goddesses who punished any individual who took a fallacious oath or did something corrupt) and the Meliae (the nymphs of the ash tree) hold been born. Some of the blood fell into the ocean and Aphrodite, the goddess of fancy, became born.

Sooner than he died, Uranus made a prophecy that Cronus would additionally be overthrown by his baby. To stop this, Cronus swallowed the infants Rhea gave delivery to. On this model, Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon disappeared.

When the sixth baby, Zeus, became born, Rhea hid the newborn and gave Cronus a stone swathed in toddler attire to swallow as an different. With Gaia’s befriend, the newborn became hidden in the caves of Mt Ida. Here he became sorted by a nymph known as Amalthea. To cowl him from Cronus, who ruled over the earth, the heavens and the ocean, Amalthea tied a rope to the newborn and suspended him from a tree so that he became neither on earth, the heavens or the ocean. Every time the newborn cried, younger warriors known as the Curetes would assemble a noise with their weapons so that he wouldn’t be heard.

When Zeus grew up, he became Cronus’s cup bearer nonetheless the latter became unaware that this became the son who would overthrow him. With the befriend of Metis, a Titan goddess, Zeus fed his father a mixture of wine and mustard. This precipitated Cronus to vomit out the children he had swallowed. Zeus now ecstatic his sisters and brothers to receive his aspect and revolt in opposition to their father. He additionally launched the Cyclops and the Hecatonchires and took them into his aspect. Thus started the Titanomachy or the Titan wars, which lasted for 10 years. Of the Titans, supreme Themis and Prometheus helped the Olympians. Finally the Titans hold been overthrown and Zeus became the contemporary king of Gods. The defeated Titans wer jailed and guarded by the Hecatonchires. Zeus became the king of gods, Poseidon of the ocean. Hades became the ruler of the underworld.