Noah Hart - Theogony_

Theogony by Hesiod

(115- 120) From the beginning, also tell the one of them who came first. First of all Chaos came into being. But then Gaia broad-chested, always the unshakable seat of all the immortals who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dark Tartaros in the recesses of the wide-wayed earth, and Eros, the most beautiful among the immortal gods, loosener of limbs, who subdues the mind and prudent counsel in the chests of all gods and of all men.

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(155-210) So many were born of Gaia and Ouranos, most dreadful of children, and they hated their father from the beginning. As soon as one of them was born, Ouranos would conceal them all in hiding place in Gaia and did not sent them back into the light, and he delighted in his evil deed. Monstrous Gaia was groaning within,congested. She conceived a cunning, evil trick.

quickly she made the element of grey adamant and fashioned a great sickle and showed it to her children. Then she spoke, encouraging them, though sorrowing in her heart. “My children with a reckless father, if only you agree to obey me. We would avenge the evil outrage of this father of yours, for he first devised unseemly deeds.” Thus she spoke, and binding fear grabbed them all, and none of them spoke. Then great Kronos of crooked counsel, embolden, quickly addressed his dear mother with words: “Mother, I promise that I will bring to completion,this deed, since I do not care for that ill-named father of ours. For he first devised unseemly deeds.” Thus he spoke, and monstrous Gaia laughed loudly in her heart. She hid him in an ambush and placed in his hands a serrated sickle, and apprised him of her whole cunning.

Great Ouranos came, bringing the night, and spread out around Gaia, desiring philotês, and was extended. His son reached out from ambush with his left hand, and in his right he held the sickle, long and serrated and the genitals of his father

he quickly reaped and threw them behind his back to be carried away. But they did not flee from his hand fruitlessly. As many drops of blood spurted forth, all of them Gaia received. In the revolving years, she bore the powerful Erinyes, and great Giants,

gleaming in their armor, holding long spears in their hands, and the nymphs whom they call the Ash Tree Nymphs across endless Gaia. As soon as Kronos lopped off the genitals with the sickle, they fell from the mainland into the much-surging sea, so that the sea carried them for a long time. Around them a white

foam from the immortal skin began to arise. In it, a maiden was nurtured. First, she drew near holy Kythera, and from there she arrived at Kypros surrounded by water. From within, a majestic and beautiful goddess stepped, and all around grass grew beneath her slender feet. Aphrodite

[foam-born goddess and fair-wreathed Kythereia] gods and men call her because she was nurtured in foam. But they call her Kythereia because she happened upon Kythera, and Kyprogenes because she was born in much-surging Kypros, and Philommeides because she appeared out of genitals.

6 Eros was her constant companion, and beautiful Desire followed her when she was being born and when she was entering the throng of the gods. From the beginning she held sway and obtained this province among men and immortal gods: a young girl's whispers and smiles and deceits and

sweet delight and philotês and graciousness. Father great Ouranos, quarreling with the children he sired himself, gave them the name Titans, Stretchers.

He said that they stretched with a great recklessness to accomplish a huge deed, and for it retribution shall be laid up for the future