Hesiod, Theogony, excerpt (from fuller text here: http://www.sacredtexts.com/cla/hesiod/theogony.htm)
Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of
all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of
the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros, fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and
overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came
forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and
bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to
cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she
brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of
the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of
love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and
Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and
lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children,
and he hated his lusty sire.
And again, she bare the Cyclopes, overbearing in spirit, Brontes, and Steropes and stubbornhearted
Arges, who gave Zeus the thunder and made the thunderbolt: in all else they were like
the gods, but one eye only was set in the midst of their fore-heads. And they were surnamed
Cyclopes because one orbed eye was set in their foreheads. Strength and might and craft were in
their works.
And again, three other sons were born of Earth and Heaven, great and doughty beyond telling,
Cottus and Briareos and Gyes, presumptuous children. From their shoulders sprang an hundred
arms, not to be approached, and each had fifty heads upon his shoulders on their strong limbs,
and irresistible was the stubborn strength that was in their great forms. For of all the children that
were born of Earth and Heaven, these were the most terrible, and they were hated by their own
father from the first.
And he used to hide them all away in a secret place of Earth so soon as each was born, and
would not suffer them to come up into the light: and Heaven rejoiced in his evil doing. But vast
Earth groaned within, being straitened, and she made the element of grey flint and shaped a great
sickle, and told her plan to her dear sons. And she spoke, cheering them, while she was vexed in
her dear heart:
`My children, gotten of a sinful father, if you will obey me, we should punish the vile outrage of
your father; for he first thought of doing shameful things.'
So she said; but fear seized them all, and none of them uttered a word. But great Cronos the wily
took courage and answered his dear mother:
`Mother, I will undertake to do this deed, for I reverence not our father of evil name, for he first
thought of doing shameful things.'
So he said: and vast Earth rejoiced greatly in spirit, and set and hid him in an ambush, and put in
his hands a jagged sickle, and revealed to him the whole plot.
And Heaven came, bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about Earth spreading
himself full upon her.
Then the son from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long
sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off his own father's members and cast them away to
fall behind him.
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