The early poet Hesiod wrote a mythic account of the origin of the gods in Theogony, a work the Greeks revered almost as much as Homer's epics. According to that origin myth, first there was Chaos, a dark, empty void. Out of Chaos came the Earth, personified as the Goddess Gaea. Thea Earth Generated Uranus, the sky. Then came the gods who displaced their father, Cronos
