| A | B |
|---|
| Greece | where shepherds and herdsmen created stories of gods |
| Greek gods | taller & handsomer than humans but with human flaws |
| Monsters and Beasts | gods and great heroes conquered them |
| Olympus | mountaintop where gods lived |
| Earth | beginning of all life, later became Mother Earth |
| Gaea | name of the Earth |
| Uranus | the sky, 1st lord of the universe |
| Sky | fell in love with Earth |
| Titans | first children of Mother Earth and Uranus |
| Titan brothers | six in all, made Mother Earth and Uranus proud |
| Titanesses | sisters/wives of titans |
| Cyclopes | second set of children of Mother Earth |
| Cyclops | one eye in center of forehead/strong smiths/ugly |
| Cyclopes names | Lightning, Thunder, Thunderbolt |
| Three more sons | third set of sons of Earth and Sky – 50 heads/100 arms |
| Tartarus | deepest, darkest pit under the earth – hell |
| Sickle | Earth created this to ask her Titan sons to free ugly sons |
| Cronus | youngest, strongest Titan – challenged Uranus |
| Pontus | Mother Earth’s second husband |
| Cronus as lord | 2nd lord of universe |
| Golden Age | when man and gods lived in peace |
| Angry Mother Earth | Cronus refused to set brothers free |
| Rhea | Cronus’s Titaness-wife |
| Cronus’s newborns | he swallowed them to keep them from growing powerful |
| 6th baby of Rhea | she gave a stone wrapped in a blanket for Cronus to swallow |
| Zeus | 6th baby of Rhea |
| Crete | where Rhea hid baby Zeus in a cave |
| sprites | Earth’s 4th set of children with Pontus; kept noise around cave so that Cronus couldn’t hear Zeus crying |
