CMLT316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Omphalos, Echidna, Lightning
15 Mar 2018
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Three important interpretations (all can be correct or none can be correct; what people who have read the story have seen in the stories (messages) Gods want power just as much as humans want power on earth. The rule of the titans (a mother cares for her children above anything else; even above their husbands) (gaia is able to manipulate the strings of heaven by helping her son overthrow her husband) Gaia comes down to give kronos a weapon to help him overthrow uranus. Kronos in order to defeat his father, castrates him (so he is unable to produce any more children; to take away his masculinity ; taking away his fertility because of which he loses his power) Kronos becomes the supreme leader (child surpasses parent) After kronos"s rule, the titans start having sex and reproducing-> produces half woman her snake (echidna) (indicating too much sex and something not being right) and cerberus (three headed dog)
