CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erebus, Typhon, Hemera
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Hesiod says (as a cop-out) that it just always has existed. Gaia came ater chaos, but came from nothing. Tartarus: the deepest part of the world, as low below the earth as olympus is above. No explanaion of where it came from. Chaos gives birth to erebos and nyx (night) who give birth to ether (light) and hemera (day) Gaia gives birth to ouranos/uranus (sky) and ourea (mountains) and pontos (sea) without maing. Then gaia mates with her own son, ouranos (sky) and gives birth to a ton of diviniies, including. Prometheus challenges zeus on behalf of humans holds out two cauldrons and has zeus choose one. In sacriice, they keep the meat and burn the bones as the sacriice for the gods. Allows humans to rise above animals in power and thus prometheus raises up humans to be able to challenge the gods: zeus gets angry and wants to challenge humans and prometheus.
