Creation

Home  **Creation** A great deal of years ago, before mankind and even before the gods the world was a hollow void of Chaos. The beginning of all things were mixed together in a shapeless mass, all moving about in all directions. Slowly things started to sort themselves out, and from chaos came forth Earth and Sky, with air in between, and underneath the earth was a dim place called Tartaros. The sun,stars, and moon began to appear in the sky, and on earth everything began to take its place. A great round ball was formed, in which we live, earth. Children as well came from the great Void, Eros or love, Erebos and black night, whose child was Day, and lastly Father Uranos or Heaven, Pontos, the sean, and Mother Earth. Heaven and Earth became parents of a large number of children who were called Titans. At first these children were monsters but improved as they went on. The youngest of the children was Cronos, but he was the cruelest of them all. Cronos later led a rebellion against his father, where he took over and became the king of heaven in his fathers place. He sent all of his sibling down to Tartaros except Rehia, whom he married and his brother Prometheus who went to live on earth and created humans. From Cronos and Rheia also came a great deal of children that to this day we know as the gods.

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Mother Earth

Connection to __The Lightning Thief__ Creation is greatly connected to __The Lightning Thie__f. Creation was the very beggining of all the mythological stories and gods, which is what __The lightning Thief__ is all about. In the book we find out at the end that Cronos is trying to escape from Tartaros, and reclaim his throne in heaven. Percery Jackson figures this out and notifies the gods. Cronos was in Tartaros because his children placed him there and over through him, just like Cronos did to his own father during Creation.

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Riordan, Rick. //The Lightning Thief//. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006.

Rouse, WHD. //Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece//. New York: New American Library, 2001**.**

Uranos, September 19, 2010, http://grafika.kopernik.pl/galilei_galileo/galileo4.jpg&imgrefurl Mother Earth, September 19, 2010, http://www.goddessaday.com/images/gaia.jpg&imgrefurl
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