CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Omphalos, Lightning, Erinyes
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The titans have a very large lineage, often reproduce in collective groups. Gaea and pontus produce many monsters together including the gorgons. Titans are personifications of various natural forces in the world, not so with the monsters that the titans produce. Ouranos confines his children within gaea, stopping them from being born and growing. Gaea is upset, uncomfortable with all the children in her so she wants to get revenge. Sky and earth have not been separated yet. Gaea gets her son cronos to castrate ouranos, this is the separation of sky and earth, gets the universe into the arrangement it should be in. Gaea convinces cronos to do this and she fashions the sickle that is used to castrate ouranos; mother is helping her children succeed their father. Gaea becomes pregnant from the blood: furies (erinyes) are born who hunt those who shed kindred blood, giants (warrior group of divinities)
