"LIVE YOUR MYTH IN GREECE"

"The ancient Greek artists focused upon creating the "ideal" human being. They explored people's experiences, interactions with the natural world, and human relations to the gods."

Greece is a country where the Greek Orthodox church remains an all-but-established faith and the self-appointed guardian of national identity. Sadly the Greek Orthodox church fails miserably at teaching compassion for all "God's" creatures. Greece irreverently buries her dead animals under a heap of inhumanity.

Greece, also known as 'The Hellenic Republic', has been a member of the European Union (EU) since 1981, and the European Monetary Union (EMU) since 2001. The vast majority of the population speaks Modern Greek and the Greeks set great store by their language and culture. The pity is, that they neglect their duties and moral obligations to the creatures with whom they share their land!

The Greeks are not a people to aspire to dwell in mediocrity but the meteoric decline in animal welfare is becoming a hall mark.

What is emerging in the wake of Greece's indifference,  is a vulgarization of her culture and sacred antiquity. Who is dimming the lights?

Creation Of The World According To
Greek Mythology
"Continue To Live The Myth In Greece"

In the beginning there was only chaos. Then out of the void appeared Erebus, the unknowable place where death dwells, and Night. All else was empty, silent, endless, darkness. Then somehow Love was born bringing a start of order. From Love came Light and Day. Once there was Light and Day, Gaea, the earth appeared.

Then Erebus slept with Night, who gave birth to Ether, the heavenly light, and to Day the earthly light. Then Night alone produced Doom, Fate, Death, Sleep, Dreams, Nemesis, and others that come to man out of darkness. Meanwhile Gaea alone gave birth to Uranus, the heavens. Uranus became Gaea's mate covering her on all sides.

Together they produced the three Cyclopes, the three Hecatoncheires, and twelve Titans. However, Uranus was a bad father and husband. He hated the Hecatoncheires. He imprisoned them by pushing them into the hidden places of the earth, Gaea's womb. This angered Gaea and she ploted against Uranus. She made a flint sickle and tried to get her children to attack Uranus. All were too afraid except, the youngest Titan, Cronus.

Gaea and Cronus set up an ambush of Uranus as he lay with Gaea at night. Cronus grabed his father and castrated him, with the stone sickle, throwing the severed genitales into the ocean. The fate of Uranus is not clear. He either died, withdrew from the earth, or exiled himself to Italy. As he departed he promised that Cronus and the Titans would be punished. From his spilt blood came the Giants, the Ash Tree Nymphs, and the Erinnyes.

From the sea foam where his genitales fell came Aphrodite. Cronus became the next ruler. He imprisoned the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires in Tartarus. He married his sister Rhea, under his rule the Titans had many offspring. He ruled for many ages. However, Gaea and Uranus both had prophesied that he would be overthrown by a son. To avoid this Cronus swallowed each of his children as they were born. Rhea was angry at the treatment of the children and ploted against Cronus. When it came time to give birth to her sixth child, Rhea hid herself, then she left the child to be raised by nymphs. To concel her act she wrapped a stone in swaddling cloths and passed it off as the baby to Cronus, who swallowed it.

This child was Zeus. He grew into a handsome youth on Crete. He consulted Metis on how to defeat Cronus. She prepaired a drink for Cronus design to make him vomit up the other children. Rhea convinced Cronus to accept his son and Zeus was allowed to return to Mount Olympus as Cronus's cupbearer. This gave Zeus the opertunity to slip Cronus the specially prepaired drink. This worked as planned and the other five children were vomitted up. Being gods they were unharmed.