Hesiods Theogony Book II

Hesios' Theogony. Translated by Norman O. Brown. Book 2. First of all, chaos came into being. Next, broad-bosomed earth, the solid and eternal home of all. And Edos, the most beautiful of the immortal gods, who in every man and every god softens the sinews and overpowers the prudent purpose of the mind. Out of chaos came darkness and black night, and out of night came light and day. Her children conceived after union in love with darkness. Earth first produced starry sky, equal in size with herself, to cover her on all sides. Next, she produced the tall mountains, the pleasant haunts of the gods, and also gave birth to the barren waters, sea with its raging surges. All this without the passion of love. Thereafter, she lay with sky and gave birth to ocean, with its deep current. Coas and Creas, and Hyperion and Iapetus, Thea and Rhea, and Temus and Memory. Also, golden-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After these came cunning Cronus, the youngest and boldest of her children, and he grew to hate the father who had begotten him. Earth also gave birth to the violent Cyclops, thunderer, lightener, and bold flash, who made and gave to Zeus the thunder and the lightning bolt. They were like the gods in all respects, except that they had a single eye stood in the middle of their foreheads, and their strength and power and skill were in their hands. There were also born to Earth and Sky three more children, big, strong, and horrible. Caddus and Briars and Giyas. This unruly brood had a hundred monstrous hands sprouting from their shoulders and fifty heads on top of their shoulders growing from their sturdy bodies. They had monstrous strength to match their huge size.