ANTH 4220 Chapter Notes -Aarhus, Cronus
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Greeks use mythology to explains things that they couldn"t (the natural world) Hesiod around 700bc is when we rst know about zeus-theogony- book of creation. Rises through obscurity to take over from his father cronus- king of the titans. Cronus was afraid of being replaced by the son- discovered by freud. Cronus swallows" his children but since they are immortal they didn"t die they stayed in his stomach. Rhea sneaks zeus away so that he is alive, and she puts a rock into a blanket and. Olympus is the home of the gods as well as the highest point in greece. Zeus made a potion so that he vomits everything up. Stone he threw up is known as delphi the gate way to heaven. Cyclops and 100 handers are brothers of cronus and he locked them down in. Zeus freed them and now they will ght on zeus" side. Cyclopes gave zeus the power of lightening for freeing them.
