Theme Of Cosmogony

It all started with Uranus and Gaea. They were the first God and Goddess. Gaea is the Goddess of the Earth. Uranus is the God of sky. Another name that refer to Gaea is Mother Earth. Uranus and Gaea First children are called the titans. They had 6 titans, which are boys. They also had 6 titanesses, which are girls. The titan had ridiculous amount of strength. One of the titans was named Cronus. Uranus and Gaea had 3 cyclops children. There names were Lightning, Thunder,and Thunderbolt. The cyclopes are strong smiths. Then Uranus and Gaea had a 3 generation of kids, which were 3 sons. They had 50 heads & 100 strong arms. Uranus put the cyclops and 3rd generation of children into Tartarus. Gaea told her Titan kids to help her and kill Uranus for sending there other kids into Tartarus. Gaea told her children, who ever chooses to kill there father get the title lord of the universe and also free his siblings. Cronus said he would, but his father fled before he got the chance.

The Delphic Oracle told the famous demigod, Lydian that “no one, not even the God’s, can escape his appointed fate.” The ancient Greek’s viewed the Earth as a flat disk floating on the river of Ocean. In Plato’s Timeous, the world is treated as a living thing, with a body and soul. The primary source for the ancient Greek creation myth is Hesiod’s Theogony. According to this account, four divide beings first came into existence: Chaos, the Abyss, Earth (Gaea) and Love (Eros).

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, there is also an initial state of chaos, which is the name that men give the complete mess that was the Universe, already hinting that men are a prominent feature in Ovid’s work, especially as he mentions them before the Gods. An unnamed God, given the name of The Creator, then appears, and starts to place everything in order. He lets Fire, the lightest element shoot up to its natural place at the furthest reaches of the Universe, and lets Air, a slightly heavier element settle below Fire. Below that he placest all the heavier elements, such as rocks and dirt, which collect at the centre of the universe, and form Earth, therefore making Earth the centre of the Universe. He then lets water flow all over it, makes mountains and fields, organises the different regions of earth and sky, and sends different winds to where they belong. Once everything was no longer in chaos, the stars came out, and The Creator then made animals to inhabit the world. Lastly, man was made, but it is unsure whether it was The Creator who made the men, or Prometheus, the son of Iapetus, who moulded men in the shape of the Gods (Ovid, 1922: 5-89.)

In the Aztecs’ story, the first entity was the Earth Goddess Coatlicue, from whom all else sprung. Likewise, in the Greeks’ account, the earth goddess Gaia was the progenitor of the universe. Both are the direct ancestors of all their cultures’ respective deities. Thus, the Aztec and Greek creation myths have deeply rooted

The creation of the gods starts with chaos and from the chaos came the endless gods: Eros, Tartarus, and Gaea (Love, hell, and the earth). Gaea created Uranus, the first ruler of the sky and Eros

One parallel between Greek and Egyptian creation stories is that they both begin with a God or Gods being created from the universe. The creation of

In Genesis, God is just known to exist from the beginning and then creates the heaven and the Earth from a “formless void” (CM pg. 77). In a similar fashion, in the Theogony, it was said that in the beginning there was only Chaos, the Abyss (Theogony ln, 116), which implies that Chaos already existed and then from that abyss, Gaia was born, and Gaia represents the Earth. With regards to the intervention by the Gods, this sounds like to me an extension of the externalist theory of Charter theory that both of these are explanations why we act a certain way and also as a way to justify certain morals or ethics that are expected in those cultures. And with the similarities of explaining the creation of Earth from nothingness, that is simply an extension of the externalist theory of Nature Myth, which is a primitive way to explain how things came to be and why they are that way. I find the Charter theory most compelling because it shows and explains why myths are used to justify certain cultural practices and codes that might and shows why it is so important within

It should be noted that all creation myths tend to possess similar themes, despite differing story lines. As noted before, there exists the basic ideas of chaos before creation, and gods to form life. But then various myths show that, once life has been created, the gods tend to retreat from the humanity they create, instead watching them from afar and using specifically chosen and often religious contacts to spread their words and commands. This deus

Greek Mythology originated around 775 B.C.E. It all started with Homer’s Iliad and continued on with Hesiod’s Theogany. These were the first two myths to be recorded in Greek Mythology. Both of these myths reveal to us about their understanding of the universe, and about their culture. Not only do they talk about their various gods, and heroes, but they also talk about how they viewed the universe in general (Rosenberg 79). Greek Mythology evolved from two early civilizations, the Mycenaean’s and the Minoans. It was the combining of these different Greek cities and Kingdoms during 10th century B.C. that created Greek Mythology. Its Geographic isolation gave it a place for mythologies to evolve (Gale Virtual Reference Library: Greek

Both Kojiki and Greek mythologies describe common belief in the creation of the world, in which gods give birth to another to form the world. In Kojiki, two of the seven gods who came into existence, Izanagi and Izanami give birth to many nature deities, creating the world. But because Izanami gives birth to too many deities, she dies while giving birth to the fire deity. In result of her death, enraged Izanagi kills the fire deity. In contrast, Greek myth describes the creation of the world with the four gods who came to existences, Gaea (earth) Chaos, Tartarus (Hell), and then Eros. Gaea asexually gives birth to Uranus (Sky) and marries her son. She then bears three types of gods; the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecathonchires. However, Uranus repels at the monstrous creatures and sends Cyclopes and Hecatonchires down to Tartarus (Hell). Frustrated by Uranus’s action, Gaea forges the first sickle, gives it to her youngest son Cronos, and have him punish his father, Uranus. Once Uranus returns to make love to Gaea, Cronos emasculates him. Here we see the similarities in the creation of the world by birth and death of God by the hands of another god with fury.

The Creation of the world is one of the most widely contested events in religion and this is still true between the Greeks and Christians. In the time leading up to creation both the Greeks and Christians believed there was absolutely nothing. However thats where the two diverge. The Greeks believed a deity named Gaea was spontaneously created from nothing. Gia represented the earth, so essentially the world was spontaneously created from nothing. Gaea then gave birth to to sky, Uranus. The two

“Greek mythology begins with the Creation Myth, which is contained within many different sources of ancient Greek texts”

According to Greek mythology, the world began as a lonely place with only a god by the name of Chaos. Out of the emptiness came along Erebus. Erebus alongside with Night came from a darker much lonelier and quiet place. Order only began to take place when Love was born and with Love came light which is Gaea, also known as Earth.

A dark, silent, formless void, a perpetual abyss without orientation, this is essentially what the Greeks believed was the origin of the world. The ancient Greeks while trying to further explain the world, invented beguiling myths (Evie). From these myths a world of human like gods and goddesses was formed (Evie). Through narratives, legends, and myths this world justified various abstract ideas, thus creating Greek mythology (Evie). A central element in Greek mythology is the underworld. The underworld is considered to be the place where one’s soul goes to after death. The underworld has played a vital role in Greek culture by serving as an incentive to live a virtuous life, which in turn has affected all aspects of Greek life.

There are many motifs in mythology. A motif is a repeating idea. Learning these myths are challenging, but they explain so much about how the Earth, time, and humans were created. Explaining the myths, or even the motifs, could be hard considering there are many different ideas on why and how the motifs are included. Three motifs caught my attention, which were the destruction from gods, humans created from organic materials, and family trees, and I am here to explain them.