The GREEK MYTH OF CREATION. by amarina https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths en-us 2017-05-06 09:43:30 UTC 2025-04-24 07:58:50 UTC hello@padlet.com IN THE BEGINNING all is dark and confused marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171047857 .]]> 2017-05-10 15:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171047857 NEXT comes Gaia. She represents the world and creates Uranus, the sky, and everything is on the earth: the mountains, the lakes, the hills, the rivers and the animals... marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171049308 2017-05-10 15:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171049308 Gaia and Uranus have lots of children: the Cyclops, the Titans and other divinities. Uranus isn't kind to his children and keeps them in a prison. marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171049749 2017-05-10 15:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171049749 But Cronos remembers of a terrible prophecy: one of his sons is going to kill him. It's for this reason, that he begins to swallow his sons. marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171050281 2017-05-10 16:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171050281 Rhea is very sad, so when her sixth son Zeus is born, she tricks Cronos: she wraps up a rock and says it's Zeus...And Uranus swallows it: Zeus is safe! marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171051324 2017-05-10 16:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171051324 THEN his son Cronos overthrows Uranus and becomes the new king. He is jerk like his father, because he leaves his siblings in prison. He marries Rhea and has lots of children. marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171052716 2017-05-10 16:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171052716 FINALLY Prometheus, one of the Titans, creates men from clay. marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171056018 2017-05-10 16:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171056018 The ancient Greeks believe that the Earth is flat. All around it there's Ocean, but it's not a sea, it's a river ! marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171056378 2017-05-10 16:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171056378 and the sun is a chariot: Helios drives it marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171057081 2017-05-10 16:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171057081 NEXT Eurynome "The Goddess of All Things" rises from Chaos to part sea from sky. She turns the wind into a snake, Ophion. marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171087170 2017-05-10 18:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171087170 AND Ophion broods it, until it splits in two and all comes out: the sun, the moon, planets and stars... marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171087553 2017-05-10 18:12:44 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/171087553 marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/172313983 THEN, in the form of a dove, she lays the Cosmic Egg  and Ophion
 broods it...]]> 2017-05-17 12:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/172313983 https://padlet.com/maamendolara/quintaogliara marinaamendolara https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/172318165 2017-05-17 13:09:10 UTC https://padlet.com/marinaamendolara/myths/wish/172318165