In the reign of Crono arises the human race as a direct offspring of Iapetus, brother of Crono. Men live happily as gods for a while, but soon would come the problems with Pandora. Crono fearing losing power got devours children that are being born. Rea, his wife, manages to save the last delivering a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which swallows it without flinching to Chrono. Zeus is placed safely on the island of Crete, where is amantado by the goat Amalthea and is cared by the nymph Adamanthea and the Curetes, lesser gods or soldiers who danced, shouted and made noise with their weapons so Chrono not heard crying child. Adult Jove and aided by his grandmother Gea gave poison to his father that made him return all his brethren. Then started a war between Zeus helped by his brothers, the Cyclops and the Hekatonkheires against Chrono and Titans ( the titanomachy ) It lasted ten years and from which came out victors the Olympians, Zeus and his brothers. Thus begins the Olympic era or age of silver of the universe in which Zeus is the Supreme God.
The Greek gods are very numerous and varied: with monstrous beings appear fine anthropomorphic deities; gods and goddesses with very well defined attributes and traits there is a crowd of beings less custom and some without proper name as nymphs, naiads, silenos and the dark geniuses or satyrs, daimones; far away from the gods of Olympus Majesty we have the precarious condition of the demigods and heroes, crossroads of a woman and a God or a goddess and a man. Despite all this complication can be divided into categories: first-generation gods or primal gods, gods of second generation or Olympic gods, rural gods or Chthonic ( telluric or land ) and demigods and heroes.
Gods of first generation: at the beginning there was only chaos; then came Uranus ( 41 heaven; and Gea ( 41 Earth; from their union were born three Hekatonkheires ( with a hundred arms and fifty heads ) three Cyclopes ( with one eye in the middle of the front 41, six Titans and six earthen ( that they had very strong 41. Fearing Uranus which destronaran it, just born, sent their children to the Earth; Crono, the first of the Titans, encouraged by his mother, confronted his father, Uranus, which mutilated with a sickle by cutting off his genitals. The blood and the semen which fell to Earth were born giants, the Erinyes ( 41 avenging goddesses; and the nymphs and what fell into the sea was Aphrodite born. So Chrono rises with supreme power, he married his sister Rhea and started the golden age of the universe
