The Titanomachy

In Greek mythology, the Titans was the series of battles fought for ten years between the two races of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, fighting from Mount Othrys and the Olympians, who would come to reign in Mount Olympus. It is also known as the Battle of the Titans or the Titan War.

The framework for this important battle was created after the youngest Titan, Cronus, overthrew his father, Uranus (sky god and ruler of the universe), with the help of his mother, Gaia (Earth). Cronus castrated his father then he seized his throne and freed his brothers the Titans, who had been imprisoned in Tartarus under the tyrannical reign of Uranus and selfish.

However, when it was usurped, Ouranos prophesied that Cronus's children would rebel against his government in the same way that he and his brothers had done. For fear that their future children rebelling against him, Cronus became the terrible king that his father Uranus had been swallowed whole their children as they flowed from his wife (and sister) Rhea. However, according to an arcade legend recorded by the Greek geographer Pausanias, it managed to hide his fifth and sixth children, Poseidon and Zeus, saying she had given birth to a horse and gave him a foal to eat it instead of Poseidon , and instead gave Zeus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Rea took Zeus to a cave on the island of Crete, where he was raised by nymphs Curetes and Adrastea and Ida. When Zeus grew older, Metis gave Cronus a special potion, which caused it to vomit the children he had swallowed. Zeus then led the rebellion against the Titans.


That may be the fate of humans in rebellion against the gods.