CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Tithonus, Hieros Gamos, Hekatonkheires
26 Feb 2017
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12 titans emerged from the earth (gaia) and sky (uranus) consort with the hecatoncheires and. Ouranos suppressed newborn children in gaia"s body. Gaia devised a plan and a weapon. Kronos freed all his titans brothers and sisters. Kronos and rhea (2nd generation of leaders) Hyperion and theia , krios, keous and phoebe (the celestial bodies) Ouranos and gaia kronos and rhea (titans) zeus and hera (olympians) Earth"s prophecy: kronos will be overpowered by a son. Therefore, kronos swallowed his children as soon as they were born. Goya (painter), who is old of age became lunatic and crazy and created painting of kronos eating his children as a representation of spain at the time. Demeter: goddess of earth, labourers of the ground. Rhea secretly gives birth to zeus in crete. Rhea gives kronos a stone wrapped up in baby clothes and kronos swallowed it thinking it was zeus. The trick: gaia in the first and rhea in the second.
