In time
before time, there was only
shapeless chaos, swirling, churning nothing. Everything presiding over a permanent dark. Out of that dark, two children formed, Night and Erebus, the deepness where death resides, all else was void. And so it was for Eons to come. [Opening theme] Then, from the impossibly
vast terror of roiling form, a new being came to be. Out of night and the depth
of death sprang love. And once there is love, form begins. And Gaia, Earth, comes to be but earth cannot exist
in void and chaos indistinct. So Earth bears
forth the firmament the Stars and heavens that
will eventually house the gods, and Pontus the Great Sea, and the Earth and the heavens
together brought forth life. Horrible, monstrous life. Three primordial beings, as large as mountains, emerged from the world, each rearing fifty heads. They crawled across the ground
with their great bulk and as they passed, the seas churned, and
the earth heaved. And as they looked about with their hundred eyes,
and felt with their hundred hands the world shuddered. They were the chthonic things, who by dragging
their unthinking mass carved the oceans. and thrust up the mountains With them three other beings were raised The Cyclops the wheel eyed. each having
one enormous eye as large as a wheel in the center
of their vast forehead. They too were gigantic beings looming over the land. Thereafter came the Titans, powerful and massive. the first creatures with which
humanity can begin to relate but the firmament which had brought forth
these creatures with Gaia was disgusted by the hundred handed beasts, and though they were his sons, imprisoned them deep
within the earth. Gaia writhed in pain, and with fury at this treatment of her sons, and called on her other children for aid. Only one of them though, Chronos, the first among the Titans, was bold enough to oppose their father the sky. for him, Gaia formed a great adamantite sickle, and bade him lie in wait for his father, and as the sky came to mate again with Gaia, Chronos leapt forth and dealt him a grievous blow with his sickle. and as the sky bled, the drops it scattered on the ground. created another race of monsters the Giants, whose stature was fearful to behold. and the Furies. the Erinyes, Whose task it was to hunt down the wicked and punish those guilty of blood crimes and the breakers of oaths. When Chronos cast his father's flesh into the sea from the foam Rose Aphrodite. thus, with the wounding of his father. Cronos became the master of all that was He imprisoned the Cyclops, and reimprisoned to the hundred handed ones, bringing peace. He ruled with his sister queen Rhea, but after a time He learned something that would disturb that peace from his mother and father He discovered that, just as he had overthrown his father one of his children would overthrow him To prevent this prophecy from coming to pass he did what any logical Titan would do in this situation He devoured his children consuming them. So they would not threaten his reign but in time Rhea, his queen, called upon Gaia to help her devise a plan so that her children might live, and that they did. The plan was simple when her sixth child, Zeus, was born in place of the baby Raya gave Chronos a stone wrapped in a swaddling cloth Which he swallowed whole I guess his highly discerning child eating palette never realized the substitution In time, Zeus grew. and returned to enact vengeance upon his father He became Chronos's cupbearer until one day, He slipped Chronos a poison which made him vomit forth his brothers and sisters. With his newly regurgitated siblings at his side, He then rebelled against Chronos and his Titans. He freed the imprisoned cyclopses and the great primordial beasts with fifty heads and a hundred hands The cyclopses were great Smiths, and forged for him Thunderbolts to use in his war with Chronos. The hundred handed beasts hurled great boulders a hundred at a time at the Titans. For ten years the battle raged but at last, the Titans are overthrown. They are imprisoned cast into Tartarus the bleak pit far below the ground all except three Atlas one of the chief generals of the Titans and the strongest among them Zeus made hold apart the heavens and the earth To keep Gaia and the sky from returning to their primordial embrace to others alone escaped Zeus's wrath Prometheus named forethought Wisest of the Titans and his brother Epimetheus or afterthought due to Prometheus's wisdom They had not gone to war against Zeus and so Zeus let them remain with the gods But the world was not yet at peace because the Giants took up war with the gods and this was in the Age of Heroes When men born of gods and mortal beings walked the earth Heroes who were nearly as far above man today as the gods themselves and of these heroes Heracles took arms with the gods and with his bow slew the Giants Yet there was one more horror that awaited the Olympians for Gaia was yet pregnant with one more child Typhon. This was the greatest of the beasts She ever bore. with a hundred heads and snakes coming out of its shoulders all flickering with flame along their Dragons tongues One that would feel right at home on a metal album cover! [Guitar Noises] Excuse me something in my throat It spewed fire and laid waste to all around it and was nearly the ruin of Zeus for when they engaged in battle He was near evenly matched but having mastered the Thunderbolts he burned the Serpent's heads to ash and Turned to cinder the giant frame of this new monster Taming the world and at last bringing peace. and with this peace, He turned to prometheus and his brother with a task. to fashion the men and beasts of the next age. for the Age of Heroes had faded from the world and that my friends is just half the story [Ending theme]
I like very much should do some less well known mythology for the next series
Oddly enough I hadn't heard half of this, despite going through all the mythology teaching in school. They just glance over the beginning and creation myths. Really nice, well done, and thanks!
I really like new not-Dan but whomever is putting in the 'extra personality one liners' needs to hold back a bit; it really breaks the flow of a well paced and delivered exposé