CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Polytheism
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Monotheism master plan for how the universe should be arranged. Polytheism diferent gods with diferent areas don"t let one god rule everyone else. They all do their own thing, it can look chaoic to everyone else but it looks ordered to them. Religion is the gods, myths are the stories. Creates prophecies and relays them to humans: god of knowledge and understanding gives humans knowledge. Has a bow and arrow (oten ideniied by this: far-shooing (this is an epithet) Father is zeus, twin sister is artemis, mother is leto: artemis also has bow and arrow, leto couldn"t ind a place to give birth to apollo. Hera is being cheated on by zeus, so she takes out her anger on all of the women who he has sex with. Leto inally gives birth at delos (then makes a promise to delos that she won"t let it be forgoten)
