CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kumarbi, Cosmogony, Lightning
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Mittiani kingdom was a powerful hurricane speaker until assyrian empire. Hittite is an indo-european language (like greek) Kumarbi corn god for agriculture then he fights and defeats anu. Ulikumi the rock monster he feels no desire build just to rule and to kill. Phoenician mythology originally from canaan today its northern israel. Written 1000 years after original cosmogony of the phoenician sanchouniathon. Elos=kronos kronos saves the earth, his mother. Zues is not kronos son but he is the son of the original kronos from generations back (grandfather) Zeus tried to defeate kronos and asks for help from earth, ouranos (sky) The castration of kronos father was added latter. With the phoenician didn"t have the castrating scene. Baal celebrates defeat of yam on mt zaphon. Hesiod: kronus groups with the titans took the titans trapped in the underworld kronos has no rule because zeus took over. Zues rules with the consent of kronos.
