- Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Gaia, Uranus, and the Castration of Heaven
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Birth of Aphrodite from the Foam
Cosmogony / Theogony (cosmogonic birth) · Hesiodic (foam-born; distinct from Homeric “daughter of Zeus and Dione”)
- Reign of Cronus, the Swallowing of the Children, and the Birth of Zeus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (with Apollodorean Cretan enrichment clearly marked)
- The Titanomachy
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Birth of the Erinyes, Giants, and Meliae from the Blood of Uranus
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic (aftermath of the castration; extracted as its own short entry for the blood-born host)
- Birth of the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — children of Gaia and Uranus · Hesiodic — three Cyclopes and three Hundred-Handers before the Titans’ castration-plot
- Rhea’s Stone: Cronus Swallowing the Omphalos-Substitute
Cosmogony / Theogony — birth of Zeus / Delphic aetiology · Hesiodic (+ Pausanian Delphic omphalos notice)
- Rhea, Amalthea, and the Curetes in Crete
Cosmogony / Theogony — birth and hiding of Zeus · Apollodorean Cretan enrichment (+ Hesiodic Crete notice)
- Birth of Athena from Zeus’s Head (Metis Swallowed)
Olympian gods · Hesiodic / Apollodorean (same Metis-swallowing lineage; birth-delivery detail from Apollodorus and related classical notices)