ENGL 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Shapeshifting, Eileithyia, Orthrus
19 Apr 2016
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The origin of the olympians, the sea deities, and monsters. She has almost equal power as zeus. Goddesses do not have affairs with mortal men, but it seems acceptable for zeus. Poseidon: god of the sea, the earth shaker, creates earthquakes. Demeter: earth goddess, takes attributes from gaia and rhea, brings fertility, explanation of the seasons. The cult statue > 40ft high, made of gold and ivory, zeus. Olympic flame > lit at the temple of hestia. Fight and do all competition in the nude. Women were not allowed to watch the games, except the priestesses of hestia. Two black doves from thebes flew to dodona and a desert in libya. Doves started talking and told people to make a sacred place for zeus. Prize was a wreath of wild celery. Hebe: goddess of youthful bloom, almost like their servant, used to pour wine for other gods.
