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Greoian Theogony.

Gus parts and inhabitants, was repre-
sented by the ancient Greeks as th
birth Of animated beings. The god
5 whom they worshipped formed part o
n the series Of beings who gradually cam,
into existence and hence the account o
lit Is called Theogony, OF birth Of th,
gods.
Chaos or empty space, they said ex
! listed FIRST; then came into being Earth
:. Iartarus and Love. Erebus Darkness,
and Night were the children of Chaos
Night bore to Ercbus Day and Ether
Night was, without a father, the par.
lent Of the Hesperides, or maidpus who
kept the golden apples on the shore Of
Ocean; of Momus and Of Woe; Of
i Death, Sleep and Dreams; Of Nemesis,
Iof Old Age and Discord.
Night brought forth Uranus OF Heav-
en-, the Sea and the mountains. She
bore to Heaven six sons-Oceauus
| Ceus, Crius, Hyperion, Japetus and Sat
urn; and SIX daughters Thea, Rhea
rhenis, Nnemosyne, Phebe and Tethys;
and these twelve were called the Titans.
Earth and Heaven we're likewise the
parents of The three Cyclopes-Brontes,
lSteropes and Argos; aud of the three
HuDdred-handed- Cottus. Briareos and
Gygcs.
These children we're hated By their
father and as soon as they were born.
he bid them in cavern Of Earth; who,
indignant at his conduct. produced the
metal named steel and forming from il
4 sickle, gave it to her son Saturn. who
Lying in wait .or his father, INITIATED
him. The drops Of blood which fell on
the earth gave origin to the Giants and
the Melian nymphs: from what fell into
The sea sprang VEINS, the goddess Of
love and beauty. r.
~ her other son, Pontus, (the Sea,
Earth was the mother Of Thaumss.
K Woader,) Nerens, Phorcys, aud
daughter named Ceto, Huge, or Sea
Monastery Thadnlas hurried Electra.
tbrighlness. daughter Of sOoeanas.
who bore him Iris (Rainb0Wl and the
l1afples aud wind goddesses.9 Nereus
had by Doris, also q daughter of Gee
anus, the fifty sea nymphs, called che
Mercedes. Phorcys was, By his sister
Ceto; the father Of the Grees, the Cor
g9ps, and the Serpent which, with the
Hesperides, Matched the golden fruit /
When here and elsewhere We read oil
gods married to their sisters. we must /
recoilect in excuse Of the old bards who /
relate such things, that in the East. and
among the 1onian Greeks, where tile fe.
male part Of the family were kept Sc.
Guided, such marriages were not prohibi-
ted We thus end the patriarch Abra,
ham married to bis half sister Sarah;
and Cimon, tie Great Athenian. stood b
in similar relation to his wife Elpi-
nice. In theogony. we must also allow
Tor the necessity of the case; just as
We are obliged to suppose that the chil> 4
ifen OF Adam and Eve espoused each
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eas !q3sa. s. THE TITANst 4ae fe
sOceanus married his sister Tethvs. Il
gho gave birth to the Oceanides, or
Ocean nymphs, and all the rivers and !
prings. He and his ife and daughters ]
iwelt in grotto palace in the western !
lart Of the stream, over which he ruled, !
md which was named from him.
Cels and his sister Phebe Bright
Iess) had two daughters Latona aad
astoria, Night and Darkpess.) Fp
ThelofsPring Of Grihs and Eurybia '
7ere AStraeus, Starry Pallas. fSba- Ii
er,) and Perses (Bright.) Astraeus a
ad by Aurora, DAWN the daughter Off
Is brother Hyperion, the winds, Zephv- 3
US, (West) Boreas (NortL) and Notns Ia
oouth) Pailas had BY the Ocean a
lymph Styx, Envy and Victory Ia
trebgth and Force. Perses was. 6v a
-steria, father of Hecate, a goddess Of hi
he night lc
Hyperion Over goiug) married bis $.
ster Thea (Swift.) Their Offspring ii
ere HelluS. (Spn.) SeIena (MoOa) and p,
-urora DAWN 81
Japetus and one of the Oceanides "
nd four sons-Atias, PFometheus, Epi- ye
etheus and Menetius.
Saturn espoused his sister Rbea.
hey had three sons and three danght- N
Neptune, Jupiter, and YES i,
, Ceres and Juno. The last born of !
csc was Jupiter. Heaven aud Earth he
wing told Saturn that he was fated to ad
II esf, rivnd Of HI, LII !,