Zeus became very angry when he heard about this. This way, humans could create fire, warm up and make tools. The Titan Prometheus, however, because he loved and felt sorry for humans, climbed up on Olympus and stole the fire from Hephaestus' workshop, put it in a hollow reed and gifted it to the humans. One day, Zeus distributed gifts to all the gods, but he didn't care much for humans. Atropos is the cutter of the thread of life and with her shears she determines how someone will die. The last sister of fate is Atropos, the unturning. It is said that Lachesis measures the thread of life with her rod, determining its length and nature. In that sense, one can understand that their destiny is chosen out of a myriad of possibilities. The name comes from the Greek word ‘λαγχάνω’ which means to obtain from lots. Lachesis, the second sister, is the one that allocates the fate of people during life. Neither human nor God has the power to influence or question their judgment and actions! Clotho, the youngest one, spins the thread of life she is the very origin, the creation of life itself and her thread is spun upon the birth of a person! The three sisters weave the fate of humans and gods alike. In Greek mythology, the Moirae are the three goddesses of fate. Thus, Zeus became the ruler of the whole world and he and the other gods settled in Olympus. The Gigantomachy lasted a long time as well. Then the gods fought with the Giants for the dominance of the world. The gods defeated the Titans and threw them into Tartarus, a dark and gloomy place as far from the earth as earth is from the sky. This titanic battle lasted for ten years. Zeus’ older brothers and sisters came out of Cronus fully grown! This is how the great Titanomachy began, the war between the Titans and the Gods, with Zeus as their leader. When he grew up, Zeus found his father and tricked him into drinking a mixture of wine and mustard, which caused him to disgorge the contents of his stomach. The Nymphs took care of Zeus and fed the baby with the milk of a goat. She also tricked Cronus into thinking he swallowed this child too, by giving him a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, which Cronus swallowed thinking it was his newborn. However, Rhea was expecting a sixth child and fearing it would share the same fate with her other children, she secretly gave birth on a mountain in Crete and hid the newborn there. So, when they were born, he swallowed them. He married Rhea, who gave birth to two gods and three goddesses: Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia and Demeter.īut Cronus inherited the fear of his father and believed that one of his offspring would later take his throne. But his son, Cronus, the strongest of the Titans, defeated him and became world leader. That is why he enclosed every one of them in the depths of the Earth. But, Uranus was afraid that one of his children would take his throne. Then Uranus and Earth came together and gave birth to the Titans. Dense darkness covered everything until the Earth was born out of Chaos and the mountains, the sea, and then the sky (Uranus) with the sun, the moon and the stars. In Part 2 we'll see the impact of hubris.According to Hesiod’s Theogony, in the beginning, there was only Chaos. He was itching to try on his wings and escape from the labyrinth. Icarus was young and brash, and like most young and brash people, he paid little attention to his father’s words. You’ll lose your feathers, and you’ll drown.” If you fly too close to the sun, the heat will melt the wax on your wings. “If you fly too close to the sea,” he cautioned him, “the waves will drench your wings and you’ll drown. The plan was to escape the labyrinth by flight.īefore giving Icarus his wings, Daedalus warned his son to maintain an even balance between the sea and the sun. He constructed a wooden frame and by using wax as the adhesive, he glued feathers to the frame to create two pairs of wings, one for himself and one for his son. Refusing to submit to captivity, the ever-enterprising Daedalus planned his escape. But then the tables turned against Daedalus, and he and his son, Icarus, were thrown into the labyrinth as its prisoners. Daedalus obliged and created an elaborate labyrinth with so many twists and turns that it was impossible to find your way out once you were inside. Minos’ goal was to incarcerate the Minotaur. King Minos of Crete commissioned Daedalus, a master craftsman who also happened to be Icarus’ father, to build a prison from which no one could escape. This is the story of Icarus, one of my favorites in Greek mythology.
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