Germania

In the beginning was Ginnungagap, a vast, dark void. When the warm air from the south met the cold from the north, the ice of Ginnungagap melted, and from the drops arose Ymir, the frost giant, and Audhumla, the primordial cow. Audhumla, licking the ice, revealed Buri, the ancestor of the gods. His grandsons, Odin, Vili, and Ve, killed Ymir and threw his body into Ginnungagap. There, from his remains, they created Midgard, the world of men. Ymir's body turned into earth, his bones into mountains, his teeth into rocks, his hair into trees, and his blood into water. From his skull, the brothers created the sky. Then they found two trees on the seashore, an ash and an elm. From the wood, they adorned man, and then woman. Odin breathed into them the spirit of life, Vili gave them intelligence and feelings, and Ve endowed them with the ability to see and hear.

In the beginning, there was formless Chaos, "a vast, empty space without limits, immersed in darkness, a bottomless magma seething with hidden elemental powers. (...)" Later, from Chaos emerged Gaia, Mother Earth, followed by the god of love, Eros, and other elements of the universe: Night (Nyx) and Darkness (Erebus). From Gaia arose generations of gods. Her first offspring were the Mountains, Pontos (sea), and Uranus (sky), and from his union, the Titans, Cyclopes, Giants, and the hundred-armed Hecatoncheires. Gaia nourished everything and everyone. Initially, she was united with Uranus, but the Titans separated them, thus contributing to the creation of the space separating them.

The gods spent five ages creating humanity. According to this story, the ancient Greeks were responsible for the development (as well as the progressive degeneration) of the human race. The people of the first, Golden Age, arose from Gaia, the Earth, during the time of Kronos. They were not subject to aging, knew neither disease nor work, and their lives were spent in revelry. They died as if they had fallen into a gentle sleep, and after death, they became gentle spirits. The second generation, the Silver Age, was created by Zeus and the Olympians. Its members lived for over a hundred years, but were violent and arrogant. For the first hundred years of their lives, they remained under the care of their mothers. They neglected the gods and were therefore destroyed by Zeus. They too survived in spirit form. Zeus created a new generation, the Bronze Age, which discovered metal and established civilization. However, these people were brutal, instigating wars in which they used bronze weapons. In the end, they slit each other's throats and disappeared. The fourth era, the Age of Heroes, appears in Hesiod. This generation, born of divine fathers and mortal mothers, was noble, courageous, and possessed superhuman strength. After death, the generation of Heroes departed for the Elysian Fields or the Blessed Isles. Zeus created the next, fifth generation, the modern generation of Iron, which must engage in labor and for whom good is always linked to evil.