In the beginning was Chaos, night, mist, and ether whirled in confusion until at last they gathered so muc speed, the whirling chaos suddenly split in two, forming Father Heaven (Uranus) and Mother Earth (Gaia)
Gaia
Uranus
Uranus was horrified at the sight of the hundred-handed monsters and banished them to a deep pit called Tartarus. Gaia was so insulted by this.
The Titans
Gaia plotted with her youngest son, Cronus, to kill Uranus. That night the son waited for his father with an iron sickle and when Uranus came by, Cronus leaped out and slashed the old god to bits.
Uranus
Cronus
Cronus was an even worse ruler than his father. He did not free his hundred handed monster brothers, Gaia was so angry at Cronus that she vowed that one of his own children would dethrone him. He went ahead and married his sister Rhea and waited for the children to come along. As soon as they were born, he swallowed them so that they would not be able to dethrone him.
Cronus kids
Cronus
The Cyclops were so grateful at being freed that they made the thunderbolt and lightening for Zeus. They gave Poseidon the magic trident which would cause the earth to shake, and they gave Hades a magic helmet which made him invisible. Zeus and his two brothers divided the control of the world, with Zeus receiving the heavens and earth.