The Greek Creation Mythology #5

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No, because Gaia, who herself had helped her grandson in that, now accuses him of having eliminated her own children, the Titans.

She is rushing the giants on Zeus, those giant creatures considered invincible.

A new war begins.

It bears the name Gigantomachy and continues even as there are already the first mortals on earth.

Together with Zeus, his brothers, sisters and children organize the resistance.
It is a bitter fight.

Zeus succeeds in bringing the magic herb, to which the giants owe their invulnerability, but that doesn't change anything, Gaia doesn't let up.

When Zeus realizes that a victory can only be won with the help of a mortal, he has an idea.

He unites with Alcmene, the daughter of the king of Mycene, who gives him a son of extraordinary strength, Heracles.

For every giant wounded by Zeus, Heracles with his arrows gives the deathblow.

Again Zeus wins over his enemies and like a monument of this victory Zeus has the big stone which his father once swallowed instead of him and vomited again, set up in delphi.

It is the Omphalos, the navel of the world, the centre of the universe and it is still there today.

But even that is far from everything.

Another adversary is waiting for Zeus and he is of immense size.

Because Gaia still wants to take revenge for the death of her children, the Titans, she unites with Tartaros, the most remote and dangerous part of the underworld.

From this connection emerges a ghastly monster, Typhon.

He is half human, half animal, with his head touching the stars and when he stretches out his arms they reach from the orient to the occident, in his eyes fire blazes and there are snakes around his abdomen. As if his appearance wasn't enough to make every opponent freeze, Typhon roars frighteningly, sometimes like a bull, sometimes like a lion.

He just thirsts for the fight against Zeus.

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