But when they told of the coming of love and light the early storytellers were setting the scene for the appearance of mankind, and they began to personify more precisely. They gave natural forces distinct shapes. They thought of them as the precursors of men and they defined them far more clearly as individuals than they had earth and heaven. They showed them acting in every way as human beings did; walking, for instance, and eating, as Earth and Heaven obviously did not. These two were set apart. If they were alive, it was in a way peculiar to them alone.
The first creatures who had the appearance of life were the children of Mother Earth and Father Heaven (Gaea and Ouranos). They were monsters. Just as we believe that the earth was once inhabited by strange gigantic creatures, so did the Greeks. They did not, however, think of them as huge lizards and mammoths, but as somewhat like men and yet unhuman. They had the shattering, overwhelming strength of earthquake and hurricane and volcano. [n the tales about them they do not seem really alive, but rather to belong to a world where as yet there was no life, only tremendous movements of irresistible forces lifting up the mountains and scooping out the seas" The Greeks apparently had some such feeling because in their stories, although they represent these creatures as living beings, they make them unlike any form of life known to man.
Three of them, monstrously huge and strong, had each a hundred hands and fifty heads. To three others was given the name of Cyclops (the Wheel-eyed), because each had only one enormous eye, as round and as big as a wheel, in the middle of the forehead. The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power. Last came the Titans. There were a number of these and they were in no way inferior to the others in size and strength, but they were not purely destructive. Several of them were even beneficent. One, indeed, after men had been created, saved them from destruction.
It was natural to think of these fearful creations as the children of Mother Earth, brought forth from her dark depths when the world was young. But it is extremely odd that they were also the children of Heaven. However, that was what the Greeks said, and they made Heaven out to be a very poor father. He hated the things with a hundred hands and fifty heads, even though they were his sons, and as each was born he imprisoned it in a secret place within the earth. The Cyclopes and the Titans he left at large; and Earth, enraged at the maltreatment of her other children, appealed to them to help her. Only one was bold enough, the Titan Cronus. He lay in wait for his father and wounded him terribly. The Giants, the fourth race of monsters, sprang up from his blood. From this same blood, too, the Erinyes (the Furies) were born. Their office was to pursue and punish sinners. They were called "those who walk in the darkness," and they were terrible of aspect, with writhing snakes for hair and eyes that wept te.us of blood. The other monsters were finally driven from the earth, but not the Erinyes. As long as there was sin in the world they could not be banished.
From that time on for untold ages, Cronus, he whom as we have seen the Romans called Saturn, was lord of the universe, with his sister-queen, Rhea (Ops in Latin). Finally one of their sons, the future ruler of heaven and earth, whose name in Greek is Zeus and in Latin Jupiter, rebelled against him. He had good cause to do so, for Cronus had learned that one of his children was destined someday to dethrone him and he thought to go against fate by swallowing them as soon as they were born. But when Rhea bore Zeus, her sixth child, she succeeded in having him secretly carried off to Crete, while she gave her husband a great stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he supposed was the baby and swallowed down accordingly. Later, when Zeus was grown, he forced his father with the help of his grandmother, the Earth, to disgorge it along with the five earlier children, and it was set up at Delphi where eons later a great traveler, Pausanias by name, reports that he saw it about 180 A.D.: "A stone of no great size which the priests of Delphi anoint every day with oil." There followed a terrible war between Cronus, helped by his brother Titans, against Zeus with his five brothers and sisters-a war that almost wrecked the universe.
แต่เมื่อพวกเขาบอกว่า ของที่มาของความรักและแสง storytellers ต้นถูกตั้งฉากสำหรับลักษณะที่ปรากฏของมนุษย์ และพวกเขาเริ่ม personify ได้แม่นยำมาก เขาให้กองกำลังธรรมชาติรูปร่างแตกต่างกัน พวกเขาคิดว่า พวกเขาเป็น precursors คน และพวกเขากำหนดให้ชัดเจนมากขึ้นเป็นรายบุคคลมากกว่ามีโลกและสวรรค์ พวกเขาแสดงให้เห็นว่าพวกเขาทำหน้าที่ในทุก ๆ ด้านเป็นมนุษย์ได้ เดิน ไป เช่น และร้าน อาหาร เป็นโลกและสวรรค์ชัดไม่ สองเหล่านี้ถูกแยก ถ้าพวกเขามีชีวิตอยู่ มันเป็นวิธีที่แปลกไปคนเดียว เด็กแม่พระธรณีและพระบิดาสวรรค์ (Gaea และ Ouranos) สิ่งมีชีวิตแรกที่มีลักษณะของชีวิตได้ พวกมอนสเตอร์ เช่นเดียวกับที่เราเชื่อว่า โลกถูกอาศัยอยู่ครั้งเดียว โดยสัตว์ประหลาดยักษ์ จึงไม่กรีก พวกเขาได้ไม่ อย่างไรก็ตาม คิดว่า ของพวกเขา เป็นกิ้งก่าขนาดใหญ่และ mammoths แต่ค่อนข้าง เหมือนผู้ชาย และยัง unhuman พวกเขาซึ่งทำให้ป่นปี้ ความแข็งแรงของแผ่นดินไหว และพายุเฮอริเคน และภูเขาไฟมากมาย [กรีก n นิทานเกี่ยวกับพวกเขาจะไม่ดูเหมือนมีชีวิตจริง ๆ แต่แทนที่จะไปอยู่ในโลกที่ที่ยังมีชีวิตไม่ เคลื่อนไหวเท่านั้นมหาศาลของต้านทานกำลังยกภูเขา และ scooping ออกทะเล"ที่เห็นได้ชัดว่ามีความรู้สึกดังกล่าวเนื่องจากในเรื่องราวของพวกเขา แม้ว่าพวกเขาเป็นตัวแทนของสิ่งมีชีวิตเหล่านี้เป็นสิ่งมีชีวิตที่อยู่อาศัย พวกเขาให้พวกเขาแตกต่างจากแบบฟอร์มใด ๆ ของชีวิตรู้จักคน Three of them, monstrously huge and strong, had each a hundred hands and fifty heads. To three others was given the name of Cyclops (the Wheel-eyed), because each had only one enormous eye, as round and as big as a wheel, in the middle of the forehead. The Cyclopes, too, were gigantic, towering up like mighty mountain crags and devastating in their power. Last came the Titans. There were a number of these and they were in no way inferior to the others in size and strength, but they were not purely destructive. Several of them were even beneficent. One, indeed, after men had been created, saved them from destruction. It was natural to think of these fearful creations as the children of Mother Earth, brought forth from her dark depths when the world was young. But it is extremely odd that they were also the children of Heaven. However, that was what the Greeks said, and they made Heaven out to be a very poor father. He hated the things with a hundred hands and fifty heads, even though they were his sons, and as each was born he imprisoned it in a secret place within the earth. The Cyclopes and the Titans he left at large; and Earth, enraged at the maltreatment of her other children, appealed to them to help her. Only one was bold enough, the Titan Cronus. He lay in wait for his father and wounded him terribly. The Giants, the fourth race of monsters, sprang up from his blood. From this same blood, too, the Erinyes (the Furies) were born. Their office was to pursue and punish sinners. They were called "those who walk in the darkness," and they were terrible of aspect, with writhing snakes for hair and eyes that wept te.us of blood. The other monsters were finally driven from the earth, but not the Erinyes. As long as there was sin in the world they could not be banished.From that time on for untold ages, Cronus, he whom as we have seen the Romans called Saturn, was lord of the universe, with his sister-queen, Rhea (Ops in Latin). Finally one of their sons, the future ruler of heaven and earth, whose name in Greek is Zeus and in Latin Jupiter, rebelled against him. He had good cause to do so, for Cronus had learned that one of his children was destined someday to dethrone him and he thought to go against fate by swallowing them as soon as they were born. But when Rhea bore Zeus, her sixth child, she succeeded in having him secretly carried off to Crete, while she gave her husband a great stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he supposed was the baby and swallowed down accordingly. Later, when Zeus was grown, he forced his father with the help of his grandmother, the Earth, to disgorge it along with the five earlier children, and it was set up at Delphi where eons later a great traveler, Pausanias by name, reports that he saw it about 180 A.D.: "A stone of no great size which the priests of Delphi anoint every day with oil." There followed a terrible war between Cronus, helped by his brother Titans, against Zeus with his five brothers and sisters-a war that almost wrecked the universe.
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