CLA 2323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: World Egg, Chinese Mythology, List Of Characters In Mythology Novels By Rick Riordan
19 Jan 2018
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The origins of the world and the first deities: geocentric model, universe turns around the flat earth, heaven (highest point, home of the gods), earth (humans & divine beings), river oceanus, Underworld: hades: the unseen, kingdom where the dead go, tartarus: monsters and sinners. Isles of the blessed: heroes/high status dead people: helios at west (sun), selene at east (moon, around the earth is chaos, the shield of achilles: hephaestus. Cosmogony: orphism: hatching of the cosmic egg containing the seeds or possibilities of everything, no mainstream religions, being present, phanes or the protogenos, the first born, eros (sexual attraction, similar in chinese mythology. Hesiod (around 700 bc: farmer and poet of theogony and works and days, theogony: accound of the birth and descendants of the gods, works and days: poem addressed to his brother, perses. About farming techniques: call to the muses: daughters of mnemosyne and zeus, the source of poetic inspiration, branch of laurel to pluck for a staff.
