HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Omphalos, Lightning
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Bad at birth & growth of offspring keeps them incorporated in female principle (inside body of earth) offsprings will not bring stability because of this. Good at getting partner pregnant, good at birth. Keeps them incorporated in male principle (because he swallows them) therefore an over-correction of predecessor (b/c to swallow them is too much) Later, cronos (first trickster) forced himself upon rheia, and she gave birth to a splendid brood: hestia and demeter and gold-sandaled hera, hadesposeidon, and finally zeus and cronos swallowed them all down as soon as each issued from. Rheia"s holy womb onto her knees, with the intent that only he among the proud. Ouranians should hold the title of king among the immortals. Earth and starry heaven that it was fated for him, powerful though he was, to be overthrown by his child, through the scheming of zeus. Zeus feeds cronos a stone in swaddling clothes.
