According to Hesiod's Theogony, there was only Chaos in the beginning. Dense darkness enveloped everything until the Earth emerged from Chaos, with the mountains, sea, and eventually the sky (Uranus) with the sun, moon, and stars. The Titans were created when Uranus and Earth merged. However, Uranus was concerned that one of his children would usurp his kingdom. That is why he encased them all in the depths of the Earth. Cronus, the Titans' strongest son, defeated him and became world ruler. He married Rhea, with whom he had two gods and three goddesses: Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter.
Cronus, on the other hand, inherited his father's anxiety and felt that one of his offspring would eventually take his reign. So he swallowed them when they were born. However, Rhea was expecting a sixth child and, worried that it would suffer the same fate as her other children, she discreetly gave birth and concealed the newborn on a mountain near Crete. Zeus was the name she gave to her child. She also duped Cronus into believing he swallowed this child as well, by sending him a stone wrapped in swaddling blankets, which Cronus swallowed thinking it was his baby. Zeus was cared for by the Nymphs, who fed the newborn goat. Zeus later located his father and deceived him into drinking a concoction of wine and mustard, causing him to vomit the contents of his stomach. Zeus' older brothers and sisters emerged from Cronus fully formed! The epic Titanomachy, the war between the Titans and the Gods, began with Zeus as their captain. This epic conflict lasted eleven years. The gods conquered the Titans and cast them into Tartarus, a dark and foreboding prison as far away from the world as the sky is from the ground. The gods then clashed with the Giants for global dominion. The Gigantomachy also lasted a long time. But the gods triumphed once more. As a result, Zeus ascended to the throne.
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