The Creation: A god created the universe out of chaos. This included critters and, potentially people.
The Four Ages: Gold - Saturn, Silver - Jove, The steady decline of all things and people is the succession of Jove over Saturn. The child cannot match the father and maintain the glory of his empire.
The Giants: Jove smashed the three Giant Mountains and the Earth formed humans from their gore. (second human forming?)
Lycaon: Jove tests Lycaon's loyalty, Lycaon tests to see if Jove is really a god, Jove smashes all his stuff and turns him into the first Furry.
Deucalion & Pyrrha: Jove kills everyone but Deucalion and Pyrrha, the Oracle tells them to toss stones over their shoulders and the stones repopulate the world.
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As Python dies the victory wreath, not yet of laurel, is created as a symbol for victory. Mixing the snake and the wreath reminds me of the Ouroboros. Creation from destruction, cyclical/mythical time, the eternal cycle of renewal "... and all is always now."
Apollo & Daphne: Phoebus (Apollo) taunts Cupid, Cupid shoots Apollo (Phoebus) who falls in love with Daphne and then shoots Daphne with the blunt arrow so she hates Phoebus (Apollo). Thusly she flees from him, he persues and she turns into a laurel tree. Phoebus (Apollo) remakes the victory wreath from her leaves and thus came the Laurel Wreath as a victory crown.
Io & Jove: Jove and Io have a fling, Juno almosts busts them but Jove turns Io into a cow and gives her to Juno to offset her fears of infidelity and placate her. Juno has Argus watch over Io as a sort of captor/shepherd. Jove has Mercury lul Argus to sleep and kill him by playing the Syrinx (Pan) Pipes and telling him the Pan Pipes creation story.
Syrinx: Mercury tells Argus how Pan fell for Syrinx and her but she fled and was changed, by nymphs, into reeds on a riverbank. Pan made the pipes from her reeds to be able to converse with her.
Io & Jove: Argus falls asleep and Mercury cuts off his head. Juno takes his 100 eyes and puts them on her sacred bird's feathers, the peacock, after which Jove begs for Io's life and Juno spares her on his word that nothing will ever happen again. Jove then turns Io into the goddess Isis.
Phaethon: Phoebus had a son, Phaethon, who wants to know if his father is truly Phoebus or not. He asks his mother Clymene who tells him to go ask Phoebus himself and he heads off to do so.
