From the testicles of Uranus in the sea came forth Aphrodite. From Uranus' spilled blood, Gaia produced the Erinyes, the Giants, and the Meliae (ash-tree nymphs). And Cronus used the sickle to castrate his father Uranus as he approached his mother, Gaia, to have sex with her. She created a grey flint (or adamantine) sickle. As each of the Cyclopes and Hecatonchires were born, Uranus hid them in a secret place within Gaia, causing her great pain. Other offspring and the castration of Uranus Īccording to Hesiod, Gaia conceived further offspring with her son, Uranus, first the giant one-eyed Cyclopes: Brontes ("Thunder"), Steropes ("Lightning"), and Arges ("Bright") then the Hecatonchires: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyges, each with a hundred arms and fifty heads. After them was born Cronos ( Cronus) the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire. ![]() She lay with Heaven and bore deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis, and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. Īfterwards with Uranus, her son, she gave birth to the Titans, as Hesiod tells it: Gaia also bore the Ourea (Mountains), and Pontus (Sea), "without sweet union of love" (i.e., with no father). Hesiod goes on to say that Gaia brought forth her equal Uranus (Heaven, Sky) to "cover her on every side". And after Gaia came "dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth", and next Eros the god of love. Hesiod's Theogony tells how, after Chaos, "wide-bosomed" Gaia (Earth) arose to be the everlasting seat of the immortals who possess Olympus above. Hesiod Birth of Gaia, Uranus, and the Titans Gaia (bottom-right) rises out of the ground, detail of the Gigantomachy frieze, Pergamon Altar, Pergamon museum, Berlin.
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