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Mythology in Hesiod

According to Greek mythology, *the highest youngest male* Titan, Cronus, overthrew his father Uranus. *Gaea opposed her husband, after he forced her to keep her children within her. With Gaea in a lot of pain, she retaliated by giving Cronus a sickle to remove the genitals of his father, Uranus. Resulting in the Titans becoming the new rulers of the heavens. However, Cronus was told that his children would overthrow him as well, so he ate them in order to prevent the overthrow from happening. Rhea, Cronus sister-wife, did not like the idea of Cronus was eating their children, so she saved Zeus, by feeding Cronus a rock instead of Zeus. Eventually Zeus grew older, and released his siblings.* In turn, the Titans were overthrown by Cronus' children (Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter), in an event known as the Titanomachy ("War of the Titans"). *It was a ten-year war that raged between the Olympians(Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera, and Demeter) and the Titans, resulting with the Olympians as the winners. The Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus after the war had ended. Tartarus is said to be the deepest part of the Underworld and the place where the evilest beings are tortured for all eternity.* The Greeks may have borrowed this mytheme from the Ancient Near East.

Greeks of the classical age knew several poems about the war between the Olympians and Titans. The dominant one, and the only one that has survived, was in the Theogony attributed to Hesiod. A lost epic, Titanomachia (attributed to the legendary blind Thracian bard Thamyris) was mentioned in passing in an essay On Music that was once attributed to Plutarch. The Titans also played a prominent role in the poems attributed to Orpheus. Although only scraps of the Orphic narratives survive, they show interesting differences with the Hesiodic tradition.

The classical Greek myths of the Titanomachy fall into a class of similar myths throughout Europe and the Near East concerning a war in heaven, where one generation or group of gods largely opposes the dominant one. Sometimes the elders are supplanted, and sometimes the rebels lose and are either cast out of power entirely or incorporated into the pantheon. Other examples might include the wars of the Æsir with the Vanir in Scandinavian mythology, the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, the Hittite "Kingship in Heaven" narrative, the obscure generational conflict in Ugaritic fragments, Virabhadra's conquest of the early Vedic Gods, and the rebellion of Lucifer in Christianity. *The Titanomachy lasted for ten years. The Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus after the war had ended. Tartarus is said to be the deepest part of the Underworld and the place where the evilest beings are tortured for all eternity.*