Hey people! I’m back! Yesterday’s story got some attention, and I was bored in this break anyway, so today I’m going to try finishing the Gaia and Uranus’s story, but its very long and idk if its possible. Oh by the way, these stories is just the version that I think make the most sense, because there’s like 10 billion versions of the Greek myths.

So, last episode, we finished on “primordial gods cause trouble”. This episode, we’re going back to the story of Gaia & Uranus. After they got married, they started having kid with REALLY  mixed results. First they have a batch of twelve, called the titans. These beings look human, but they are much bigger and more powerful. However, once these kids are born, Gaia & Uranus’s marriage started going sour. Uranus spend way more time in the sky. He didn’t help with anything. The two of them started fighting.

A few times the two tried to patch things up. Gaia thought to herself, “I got to hold it for the kids. Maybe if we had another patch of kids…” BAD idea. She gave birth to a set of triplets. There’s just one little problem. These kids are REALLY ugly. These kids are as buff and big as the titans, but they hulking & brutish, & each have a single eye in the middle of its face. Gaia named them the Elder cyclopes. (A long time after, they would spawn a whole race of other lesser cyclopes, but that was much later). When Uranus saw the cyclops children, he freaked.

“Those kids couldn’t be mine! They are so UGLY!”

“They are your children, and don’t you dare leave me to raise them on my own!”

“OHHH, don’t worry, I won’t”, Uranus snarled back. He stormed off, and came back with chains made out of the night sky’s pure darkness. He grabbed the cyclopes, bound them in chains, and threw them into Tartarus, which being under the earth, is the only part of creation where Uranus wont need to look at them. Gaia screamed and wailed, but Uranus refused to release the cyclopes. Clearly, the sky dude has some issues.

“I am king of the cosmos! How can I not be! I am above everything!” He says.

As you can guess, Gaia went into a total fit. The titans are almost adults now, and they feel bad for mom, but there really nothing they can do. Gaia thought, “I got to hold it up for the kids, maybe I’ll give one more try with Uranus”. As if she needs more proof that her relationship with Uranus is toast, the new triplet are even more monstrous. Each have a hundred arms all around their body, and 50 heads clustered on their shoulder. Talk about a face only a mother could love. Well, Gaia loves them. She named them the Hundred-Handed ones. She didn’t have time to gave them names though, when Uranus took one look at them, snatched them from Gaia hands, and tossed them into Tartarus like bags of recycling.

(See 2-2 this is a bit too long sry)

 

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