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Gaea, The Mother of All Living Things
Gaea was loved by all, and had many children that loved her back. Gaea was represented
as many different things. She was usually shown as a mountain or any part of earth; this
is why she was called Mother Earth or Earth in general. She was very loving and never
cruel which is why others loved her back. Her first husband was Uranus until Cronus,
Gaea’s child, dethroned him. Gaea then married Plotus but did not have children with
him. Her only human children were the Titans; she also gave birth to monsters and
Cyclopes. Gaea stared in many myths, almost all creation stories. One of them is Gaea,
Mother Earth. This myth tells of Gaea before she had children and when she fell in love
with Uranus. Another myths Gaea is part of is The Titans. In this myth Cronus the
youngest of the Titans (which are Gaea’s children) when he dethrones his father Uranus.
Gaea’s legacy today is the same as it always was. She is Mother Earth, and loved by all.
When she thinks something is cruel or wrong she gives birth to a monster that is tolled to
destroy the thing that made Gaea mad. She is shown as a mountain with an eye or a
feature that lets someone understands it is her. Gaea may not have bean a hero or a highly
remembered god like Zeus but she did give birth to all living things allowing heroes and
important gods to live.
Prometheus: Champion of Humankind
In Greek mythology, Prometheus was the creator of mankind. The goddess Athene taught
him architecture, astronomy, mathematics, navigation, medicine, and metallurgy, and he
in turn taught them to humans. Zeus, the chief of the Greek gods, became angry at
Prometheus for making people powerful by teaching them all these useful skills.
When the gods chose Prometheus as arbiter in a dispute, he fooled the gullible Zeus into
picking the worst parts of the sacrificial bull by hiding them under a rich layer of fat. To
punish Prometheus, Zeus withheld fire from men. "Let them eat their flesh raw," he
declared. In response, Prometheus, snuck up to Mount Olympus, lit a torch from the sun,
and hid a burning piece of charcoal in a hollow stalk. He slipped away with it and thus
delivered fire to mankind.
Zeus, as revenge, tried unsuccessfully to trick Prometheus' brother, Epimetheus, into
accepting the beautiful but mischievous Pandora as a gift. Epimetheus, mindful of earlier
advice from his brother, refused. Even madder now that his trick had failed, Zeus had
Prometheus chained naked to a pillar in the Caucasian mountains. A griffon-vulture ate at
Prometheus' liver all day long. During the bitter cold of the mountain night, the liver
became whole again.
So it went day after day, year after year. Epimetheus married Pandora in an effort to free
his brother. Pandora -- as devilish as she was beautiful -- opened the famous box in which
Prometheus had shut up all the evils that might plague mankind: Old Age, Labor,
Sickness, Insanity, Vice and Passion.
Only years later, at the behest of Heracles (Hercules), did Zeus free Prometheus.