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gaia also unsurprisingly was p pissed that zeus kept her titan kids in hell so she took all the giants and got them to fight for her. the olympians really struggled until athena recruited heracles, and they defeated two leader giants, and the rest apparently fell apart
porphyrion died bc he was suddenly lustfully attracted to athena tho, which is weird

uranus was afraid of being usurped, so he crammed his titan kids back into gaia's womb. what a guy.
gaia understandably was pissed, and started to complain to her kids that he needed to be punished for that bs, and, eventually, cronus decided to agree. gaia gave him a sickle and, surprise surprise, the next time gaia and uranus made love, cronus cut his dick off and threw it into the sea. so, uranus' not worshipped

rhea (mother deity- births the olympians), tethys (first goddess of the sea- 3000 daughters called the Oceanids), theia (births helios, selene, and eos), themis (godess of necessity- mother of prometheus, the hours, the fates)

gaia+uranus AGAIN (birthing the Titans)
coeus (father of leto), crius (father of astraeus, pallas, and perses), cronus (overthrew his father), hyperion (first god of the sun, sired helios), iapetus (father of prometheus, epimetheus, menoetius, and atlas), oceanus (god of rivers).
(titanesses)
mnemosyne (memory, births Muses), phoebe (first goddess of the moon, mother of leto) ---

also had the three cyclopes who only had one eye, in their forehead (brontes, arges, steropes/asteropes). the first cyclopes were the first smiths. also thrown into tartarus.
brontes - Thunder/Thunderer
arges - the Shiner/Thunderbolt
steropes - Lightning/Maker of Lightning

gaia's union w her son uranus (sky) produced the three hecatoncheires (100 handed ones)- Cottus, Briareus (or Aegaeon), and Gyges (or Gyes). they had a hundred arms and fifty heads. their father uranus (ruler of the universe) had them imprisoned in tartarus (the underworld).

ceto + phorcys have the graeae (Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo), the gorgons (immortal ones were Euryale and Stheno- mortal was Medusa), echidna (body of a woman w a serpents tail instead of legs) ladon (100 headed dragon- guarded golden apples), the hesperides (nymphs- Aegle, Erytheia, and Hesperethusa- all could sing)

ceto + phorcys have the graeae (Deino, Enyo, and Pemphredo), the gorgons (immortal ones were Euryale and Stheno- mortal was Medusa), echidna (body of a woman w a serpents tail instead of legs) ladon (100 headed dragon- guarded golden apples), the hesperides (nymphs- Aegle, Erytheia, and Hesperethusa- all could sing)

gaia + her son pontus (the sea) have sex and create ceto (goddess of sea monsters/large marine beasts), phorcys, eurybia (wife of Crius, a titan, mother of three titans Astraeus, Pallas, and Perses), Nereus (original old man of the sea), thaumas (marries Electra to have Iris and the harpies), phorcys (father of the sirens and scylla)

pandora was made to tempt man bc zeus was still pissed abt the whole fire thing and zeus intentionally sabotaged her in order to deprive humanity of either All Good Things, or to unleash the evils of the world.


what a douche

eos - goddess of the dawn, helios' sister. rises from golden throne, opens gates of heaven, announces the Coming of the Sun, accompanies brother across sun. she's the mother of the Winds: boreas (north), notus (south), zephyrus (west) + eosphorus (the morning star) + other stars

helios- lesser god of the sun, handsome, brings daylight to earth by driving chariot of fire with four flaming steeds.
selene- lesser goddess of the moon, helios' sister. drove a silver chariot pulled by two horses. 'beautiful and famous for love affairs'. affair w zeus, child named pandia. affair w Endymion, made love to him in his dreams, bore him 50 daughters- got one wish- wished for eternal youth/sleep

prometheus was a titan w his brother epimetheus, tasked with creating beasts- epimetheus gifted the beasts gifts of preservation. prometheus made man out of earth and clay and molded the in the likeness of the gods. prometheus decided to give humans fire for protection which pissed off zeus, who then arrested prometheus and bound him to a rock to have his liver torn out daily. nice.

//incest tw
uranus was born to gaia in her sleep and they have sex to create the waters, forestry, and the beasts + the Titans/Titanesses, the Cyclopes, and the Hundred-Handed Ones.
nyx had sex w erebus to produce hemera (day) and aether (air). she reproduced by herself to create thanatos (death), hypnos (sleep), moros (doom), nemesis (retribution), oizys (pain), geras (old age), oneiroi (dreams), and the moirai

it's nice to read this based off of the ovid's description that everything was Going Wrong and Some God (they don't know who) organized the whole mess into land sea and air

omg??? the book ends at 55%- the rest are authors notes

my nose is so cold it's Chilly when i breathe what is this. the library is not made for This

you're absolutely shitting me. //spoilers i can understand why estelle is pissed but like. dorothy's husband is fucking dead too girl.

i'm FUCking Screaming Fred legitimately is trying to run Dorothy off the road for catching him with sandra holy shit

(wife catches him cheating)
(attempts to wreck her goddamn car)

OH HOLY SHIT
//spoilers
ok so. dorothy's husband => fucking estelle's (underage) daughter => estelle said that sandra (the daughter) was seeing estelle's old flame that she never Quelled and kept seeing

== dorothy's husband has been cheating on her since the beginning, with estelle and then later sandra

i love how larry called bamboo 'stickbushes' tag yourself

i was really wondering why everyone is calling this book feminist but it just sank in that this is like. one of the first books i've read where housewives have Friends and actually rely on them for emotional support during hard times like. this is so surreal even Fish Man Larry is like. if most monster YA love interests actually respected their partners. how surreal

this is like... weirdly enjoyable. bc it's written so crisply i can just Eat It Up very quickly. also fishman has a murder count of like 7

he doesn't want to hurt or control her- he just wants to eat her prize apple cucumbers

larry the sea monster is the best love interest i've read in two months

i love dorothy.
dorothy: making direct eye contact w a sea monster, scared shitless
*smells her toast burning*
dorothy: *taKES OFF LIKE A BULLET TO RESCUE IT*

k confirmed: adding this to the neurodivergent shelf for schizophrenic MC B)

i'm.... really doing this huh