Monsters Of Greek Mythology, Volume One - Plot & Excerpts
He drew a golden cloud about them, and his rain started children in the cave of her womb. “Oh, my Lord,” she cried, “these blessed babes of ours shall be the first born of love’s embrace—creatures so wondrously beautiful that all must worship them.” “Beautiful, eh?” snarled Uranus to himself. “Then she may prefer them to me, me, me. Oh, no! Beautiful they shall not be, but so ugly that all will flee in horror.” Thereupon he cursed the first fruits of her womb, fashioning this curse into the shape of a bat, which he sent flying into the cave where the unborn infants lay. The bat plucked an eye from each head and ate them like grapes. Mother Earth went into labor. The plains quaked. Mountains gushed fire. The ocean floor shook, starting tidal waves. When the sea withdrew, two children loomed on the wet beach, a boy and a girl. Giants they were, born full-grown, tall as trees and magnificently muscled. But their father, hiding behind a storm cloud, smiled when he saw them.
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