GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Homeric Hymns, Cronus, Theogony
23 Apr 2015
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Primordial gods (sprung from chaos: gaia (earth, uranus (heaven, mountains, pontus (sea, tartarus (underworld, eros (god of desire, erebus (darkness, night. 6 males: ocean, coeus (how?, crius (uncertainetymology, hyperion (high, iapetus (uncertain etymoloyg, cronus: ruler. 6 females: tethys (grandmother, phoebe (radiant, theia (divine, themis (order, mnemosyne (memory), rhea (earth or flow/ motherhood, three cycolopes(round eyed, brontes (thunder), steropes (lightning), ages (bright, three hectanochures hundred handed. But hera without mingling in love with zeus bore famous hephaestus who is skilled in crafts more than all the uranians . Zeus grabbed me by the feet and hurled me from the divine threshold . Thetis saved me when i suffered much at the time of my great fall through the will of my won dog-faced mother who wanted to hide me for being lame . The major olympians are delimited by their relationship to zeus, the current head of the pantheon:
