Greek Creation Myth Project
Storyboard Description
The first 4 slides deal with the descent and origins of the gods, the next slide deals with how humans were created, and the last slide is about the cause of destruction, pain, and hope.
Storyboard Text
- Uranus rained down upon Gaia, causing her to bring forth life in the form of the 50-headed, 100-handed giants and cyclopes.
- In the beginning, there was only Gaia, who is the Earth and the Mother of all.
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- In the darkness, Uranus, who is the sky, raised himself from Gaia.
- These monsters were pushed into the underworld, Tartarus, by Uranus.
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- The next born were the Titans, who were giants in the image of the Gods who followed them. Uranus allowed them to walk the Earth. The 12 significant Titans were Cronus, Rhea, Iapetus, Tethys, Thea, Crius, Coeus, Themis, Hyperion, Phoebe, Oceanus and Mnemosyne.
- To avoid his fate of being overthrown by one of his children, Cronus swallowed each of his children.
- Rhea tricked Cronus by giving him a rock wrapped in baby clothes. Cronus swallowed it unknowingly. This child that avoided Cronus' belly was Zeus.
- Uranus was overthrown by Cronus, making Cronus the new ruler.
- Cronus was thirsty and given a drink that he thought was wine. He drank it without thought and was poisoned by Rhea and Zeus.
- Cronus fled to his fortress calling for help. The Titans joined him in a war to defeat the Gods.
- Cronus began to vomit; he vomited six times. He puked out Zeus' older siblings (Hera, Demeter, Hestia, Poseidon, and Hades) and a rock. Zeus and his siblings are known as the Gods and Goddesses.
- The war went on for 10 years. The Gods and Goddesses were unsuccessful until Zeus thought of an idea.
- Zeus remembered the monsters in Tartarus, so he brought his brothers (Poseidon and Hades) to free them. After escaping Tartarus and nearing the fortress, the Cyclopes gave the Gods weapons. They gave Zeus the Thunderbolt, Poseidon the Trident, and Hades the Helmet of Invisibility.
- Most of the Titans were banished to Tartarus after the war.
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- With the help of the weapons and might of the 100-handed giants, the Gods defeated Cronus and the Titans.
- Zeus was now the new ruler.
- As thanks for fighting alongside the Gods, Zeus entrusted the Titans Epimetheus and Prometheus the task of creating living things. Prometheus was to create humans, and Epimetheus was to create creatures.
- Prometheus stole the fire and gave it back to the humans.
- Zeus punished Prometheus for giving fire back to the humans. As punishment, he was chained to a mountain. A vulture would come eat his liver, his liver would grow back, and this process repeated everyday.
- Where fire?
- Prometheus tricked Zeus into what humans had to sacrifice, so Zeus took fire away from them.
- Pandora's curiosity got the best of her. She opened the box and released all of the forces of evil and suffering into the world. It was Zeus' way of limiting the human's power
- Zeus believed that Prometheus gave humans enough power to potentially overthrow him, so he created the first mortal woman, Pandora.
- Pandora opened the box one more time. When she opened it, she released hope into the world to make living as a human bearable.
- Pandora was the wife of Epimetheus. She was given two things by Zeus: the gift of curiosity and a box she was told not to open.
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