In the beginning was the Mother, Rhea named, Who turned a…

In the beginning was the Mother, Rhea named,
Who turned against her brother-husband grim,
And with her mother, father, youngest son acclaimed,
Betrayed the devourer Cronus, saved her kin.
Thus fell the tyrant, as her mother once before
Had done to shield the children from his sin.
She cast aside her given name of yore
And took the title Demeter, the Mother dear,
The giver of life upon the fertile shore.
Her youngest son and secret lover, Zeus, drew near;
Usurper like his father, yet more kind and wild,
He took the throne with mercy as his spear.
Yet hubris lay in sparing Cronus undefiled—
No castration as once the father wrought on Uranus old,
Who afterward in secret transitioned, undefiled,
To Aphrodite’s form of beauty bold.
Rhea disapproved when Zeus would wed her daughter Hera true,
For she knew both full well, as mothers hold.
Hera, like her mother, jealous through and through,
Was poison for the polyamorous son-king’s bed;
Yet Zeus would not heed Rhea, though she knew
The peril of repeating prophesied dread.
She had refused his offer of marriage despite their secret flame,
For fear of tragedy circling overhead.
Thus Zeus took Hera as wife, against his mother’s claim.
Then, weary of his faithless ways, the queen
Prayed unto Gaia, won reluctant acclaim,
Lay with imprisoned Cronus in the scene
Of jealous wrath, and birthed the Serpent, Typhon dire.
With Hephaestus and this bastard, fierce and keen,
They cast Zeus down to Tartarus’ endless fire.
Cronus was freed, yet scorned to wed the queen or share his power high;
Instead he took his daughter Hera as concubine, no higher.
Recovering his sickle from Sicilian sky,
He renamed Typhon Satan, and began
His vengeance slow, methodical, and sly.
By destroy he meant humiliation’s span,
Enslavement, chains— for gods cannot be slain,
Only imprisoned while their influence ran.
Even in bonds Cronus, called Yahweh in the plain
Of Near East lands, still shaped the mortal fray.
His first deed freed: with mortal Mary he did lain,
And sired another son, the Christ-child’s ray—
All part of plot to steal the mortals’ praise
From every god who once held sovereign sway.
The gods were fractured now; he could upraise
One foe at a time, and time itself was his
To reap when conflict thinned their ancient blaze.
He sowed division, then in hooded black abyss
Appeared with sickle lone, the Grim Reaper known,
Or DEATH, the taker where once Life’s kiss.
As god of Summer’s life he now had grown
To reaper of souls with seasons’ turning tide;
Giver and taker, generation’s throne.
With Jupiter’s fall the Roman Empire’s pride
Of endless march was broken, civil war
And strife increased as Satan’s hand did guide.
Hyperion and Oceanus alone before
Had stood apart in Titanomachy’s fray;
Now Hyperion’s wrath could brook no more.
He and his son Helios turned against the gray
Usurper, seeking order’s light once more.
With parents’ blessing Helios rose as Sol Invictus’ ray,
And blessed Constantine the Great, his champion pure.
Yet Satan’s deceptions and the followers’ insistent cry
Made Constantine behold the solar sign as Jesus’ cross secure.
Thus lost his champion; Sol Invictus turned his eye
Away, his title “Invictus” slain,
For Helios who never knew defeat now tasted defeat’s sigh.
His pride near shattered, yet with parents’ gain
He blessed another: Julian the Apostate bold.
That failure too brought agony and pain.
Twice broken, Helios’ resolve grew cold.
Saturn reigned supreme o’er western lands refined;
Most gods who once with Zeus had stood were rolled
To Tartarus’ depths, save Rhea Demeter kind,
Aphrodite, Helios and his parents’ line,
And those who never turned against his mind.
No other worship save his sons divine—
Satan and Jesus— was to mortals allowed;
Yet distant lands still praised not his design.
Revenge unquenched until all mortals bowed
In terror and in love to every name he claimed,
For dialectic mastery had split his mind, unbowed,
Bipolar, craving dread and love the same.
Satan, born of Hera, Gaia, Tartarus, and Chronos’ seed,
Grew jealous of his quarter-brother, Jesus named.
Though Chronos swore both sons served equal need,
Satan believed not his own title “greatest deceiver” true;
Thus he impersonated Gabriel in angelic weed,
Appeared to Muhammad, whispered Allah’s view—
One God alone, submission absolute.
Saturn at first in fury, then in pleasure new,
Declared him truly greatest deceiver, absolute.
Doctrinal quarrels moved him not; all worship flowed
To Saturn still, whether through Jesus or through Satan’s suit.
Chaos and fragmentation in the mortal road
Became his harvest; then he turned his sickle north
Against the foreign gods, and Odin’s code.
With Satan’s aid and Loki’s foolish worth
He set Tyr against Thor, divided the faithful throng;
Bribes and threats subdued the …