CLC 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Succulent Plant, Binary Opposition, Cyclops
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Titans (12 powerful gods), cyclopes, hecatonchires (100 arms) Uranus hated his children so he hid them in ge. Creates foam and thus aphrodite is born from the foam. Castration complex: scared that he will lose his sexuality bc he hates his father and loves his mother. Scared too that his kids would overthrow him. So he ate them but they never died. Rhea did not want cronus to eat zeus. Ge and uranus (parents of rhea) wanted to help and hid zeus in a cave on mt dicte. Cronus received a stone wrapped up in a baby clothes. Rheas friends-covered the sound of baby crying with music. Cronus was forced to disgorge his kids. Threw up all kids as well as the stone. Zeus formed an alliance w his siblings and prepped to fight cronus. Titanomachy was the war fought for 10 years. Atlas, brother of prometheus bc he fought w cronus.
