Before earth and sea and heaven were created, all things were one aspect, to which we give the name of Chaos(a confused and shapeless mass). Earth, sea, and air were all mixed up together; so the earth was not solid, the sea was not fluid, and the air was not transparent
It was midday, and the sun stood equally distant from either goal, when young Actaeon, son of King Cadmus, thus addressed the youths who with him were hunting the stag in the mountains
Hera’s twin-brother Zeus sought her out at Cnossus in Crete, where he courted her, at first unsuccessfully. She took pity on him only when he adopted the disguise of a bedraggled cuckoo, and tenderly warmed him in her bosom. There he at once resumed his true shape and ravished her, so that she was shamed into marrying him