GEOL 1122 Lecture 5: Geol 1122 Lecture Notes 08.28.18
9 Jan 2019
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In the beginning, there was chaos, the abyss. Out of it first emerged gaia, the earth, which is the foundation of all. Next came tartaros, the depth in the earth where condemned dead souls go to their punishment, and eros, the love that overwhelms bodies and minds, and erebos, the darkness, and nyx, the night. Erebos and nyx made love and from their union came aether, the air, and hemera, the day. Gaia, the divine personification of the earth, gave birth to her first child uranus, the starry heavens that fit around her perfectly and that provide a home for the immortals. Then she gave birth to the mountains, where the nymphs live in the hills and the forests and pontos, the sea on which sailors challenge the raging waves. Uranus, the heavens, and she gave birth to okeanos, the ocean that circles the world.
