CLAA06H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Xuthus, Ziusudra, Atra-Hasis
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Chapter 5 myths of creation - mortals. The five races: gold happy and blessed and at death became spirits that look over mortals (before pandora) (cronus, silver worse than first, a child is young for 100 years, then suddenly age and die. Spirits live underground: bronze worse than silver. Born from ash trees where shafts of spears were made, they were strong and violent. Bronze weapons and houses and did not understand iron-working. Hades where they dwell in darkness: heroes better than bronze. Some never died but were taken to isle of the blessed at the end of the world under cronus" rule without knowing sorrow. A time where land was changing from group to private ownership, poor sank to slavery or forced to leave, oil/wine trade was growing, coinage was beginning, scripts, cities grew. The universal flood - noah: noah survived a flood from yahweh, who regrets creating humans (evil)
