This book is a literary attempt at the genre of Greek theogony by Hesiod, which means he will tell the stories of the gods.
In Hesiod's story, the first reality is absolute cosmic Chaos from which the first things suddenly appear spontaneously. These firstborn were Gaia, also known as the earth, Eros, which is very similar to Hindu "Tantra," also Tartarus, which is their version of hell, Darkness, and nighttime, which is called Nyx.
After a long series of intermingling of these original entities, other forms of divinity arise, like Brightness, Day, the elements of the earth, and eventually, the first race of gods was born. These "Golden Age" deities give birth to new gods and also to the Titans. We learn about Uranus's contradictory relationship to Gaia, and she summons her Titans to punish him for abusing her. She summons Cronos who castrates his father in his mother's name, and the blood from his blade makes the Furies. Also, Cronos throws his father's testicle into the sea, and Aphrodite is born.
This paves the way for a new generation of gods to be born, including the horrifying sons and daughters of Nyx, and the celestial children of Theia and Hyperion. This generation also includes states of in-between, like dawn, Styx, the river of transition into the underworld, and also Prometheus, who transitioned humans into the age of technology.
Cronos and Rhea his sister are married and give birth to Hestia, then Demeter (the goddess of fertility and pregnancy), Hera (the goddess of human marriage), the eventually Zeus. Zeus finally was able to subject the Titans to Tartarus by his power and lightning. He is the god of storms who becomes king to heaven and who sentences Prometheus to his torture for helping the humans discover "fire of the gods." We learn of Hephaistos, the blacksmith who works for the gods making their armor and weaponry.
When Zeus swallows Metis, one of his first wives, his prophesied child Athena is born by bursting forth from his forehead already fully formed. We learn about Zeus's fling with Themis for the creation of life's order, rhythm, and the passage of time. We also learn about minor deities from this marriage. The next several passages deal with his marriages to different elemental entities like Oceanids and Titans.
When Aphrodite is sentenced to marry Hephaistos, the paralyzed blacksmith, she cheats on him with Ares, the god of war, and they give birth to a new generation—the emotions: Love, Fear, Cowardice, and Unity. After this, the stories begin intermingling with the stories of men.
