The Sickle

Gaia asks her children to punish their father, and only the youngest dares answer: Kronos the wily. From ambush he unmans Uranus with the jagged sickle, and the sky recoils from the earth forever. From the spilled blood rise the Furies — avengers of family bloodshed — and the armoured Giants; from the severed flesh, adrift in sea-foam, grows Aphrodite, goddess of love, stepping ashore on Cyprus with grass springing beneath her feet. Beauty and vengeance are born from the same wound, and the maimed Sky leaves a curse: vengeance will come afterwards.