HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erebus, Asexual Reproduction, Cronus
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From female to male: from maternity to paternity. Heaven = sky = ouranos = uranus. The very first generation is chasm (chaos) = emptiness. Generation 2: earth, tartara, eros - simply appear, females predominate. Generation 3: some asexual reproduction from chaos: erebos, night, bright air, from earth: Heaven, sea; first sexual reproduction earth + heaven: ocean, titans (incl. Generation 3: paternity problems: ouranos hates kids. And these most awful sons of earth and heaven were hated by their father from the first. As soon as each was born, ouranos hid the child in a secret hiding place on earth and would not let it come to see the light, and he enjoyed this wickedness. Earth, being strained and stretched inside her, groaned. And then she thought of a clever, evil plan. Quickly she made a grey adamant, and formed a mighty sickle, and addressed her sons .
