jan 1, 700 BC - Θεογονία - The Genealogy or Birth of the Gods

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(Circa 700 BC)

(Θεογονία is a 1,022 lined epic written by Hesoid, and has become the principle of understanding early Greek cosmology)

(The poem is the earliest mention of the Hydra, a multi-headed serpentine lake monster which was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon, being siblings with Cerberus and Orthrus. Guarding the Underworld with breath so poisonous that the scent was fatal, later revisions of the legend said that once a head was chopped off, two more would grow)

(The Hydra inspired the name for Hunter Graves' storm theory, the Hydra Theory, where every extreme weather event is connected to a singular, underlying atmospheric phenomenon)

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