CLAS 203 Chapter 3: Myths of Creation
29 Sep 2016
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700 bce) was the first to give literary explanation of how the gods, the universe, and humankind came into being: his work considered the classic greek version: theogony and works and days. From night came day and aether (upper atmosphere) The primacy and mystery of eros: romans = cupid, god of love, appears early in the theogony, responsible for the mingling of the first beings, from which came the immortal race of gods. Sacred marriage of uranus (sky) and gaia (earth), their offspring. In hesiod"s account, the first deity is female (gaia) She gave birth to uranus, mountains, nymphs, and pontus (waves: and then bore uranus"s children, oceanus and the titans, the last being cronus, who hated his father. The titans and their descendants: ocean, sun, moon, and dawn. There are 12 titans: 6 males, 6 females. For the most part they are deifications of various aspects of nature.
