Bibliotheke: Tanrıların Kökeni

Caelus (Heaven) held the first rule of the whole world, and having taken Tellus (Earth) as his wife, he bore from her the first sons, whom they called the hundred-handed: Briareus, Gyas, and Cottus. Because each of them had a hundred hands and fifty heads, they surpassed other mortals in both the size of their bodies and their strength. After these, Tellus bore from Caelus the Cyclopes: Arges, Steropes, and Brontes, each with a single eye placed in the middle of their forehead. But Caelus, having bound them, cast them into Tartarus, a place in the underworld that is most dark and as distant from the earth as they say the earth is from heaven. Likewise, Caelus from the same spouse begat Oceanus, Coeus, Hyperion, Crius, and Iapetus, called the Titans, and he took to himself the youngest of all, Saturn. Furthermore, he had daughters: Tethys, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Dione, and Theia, whom they named the Titanides. Soon, Tellus, bearing most indignantly the destruction of her sons cast into Tartarus, urged the Titans to attack their father by guile, and she provided Saturn with an adamantine sickle. Then they all, except for Oceanus, made an attack upon their father, and Saturn cut off the genitals of Caelus and cast them into the sea. From the drops of blood flowing from the members, the Erinnyes (Furies), Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera, were born. Caelus having finally been expelled from the kingdom, and their brothers having been recalled from the deepest depth of Tartarus, they conferred the rule upon Saturn.