Mythology By- Edith Hamilton
~Brittnie Scott, Sydney Yeargain, and Tallia Cowell
Period 4
Cordova
July 29, 2013
Chaos
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First there was Chaos. He was lifeless. Chaos gave
life to two children, Night and Erebus. Erebus was
where death lingered. Aside from Chaos, Night, and
Erebus the universe was equivalent to a black hole.
Love was born and it created light with day and dark
with night. Erebus and Night were later married and
had three children.
Allusion~ You could compare Chaos to the speck off
of Horton Hears a Who. He has a purpose, but at the
same time he's nothing.
Earth and Heaven were Created
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Due to love and light, Earth was created. Heaven and
Earth aren't human beings, but they portray traits that
human beings have. Love and light tried to teach
Heaven and Earth to act like human beings. Mother
Earth and Father Heaven had the first children that
had similarities of life, Gaea and Ouranos.
Allusion~ Genesis in the bible explains how the Earth
was created.
Monsters
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Gaea and Ouranos were monsters that had the ability to shake the
Earth. They were not really alive, they were more one with the
Earth. Along with Gaea and Ouranos, there was the Cyclopes and
the monster with one hundred hands and fifty heads. The titans
were monsters as well. Titans were children of the Earth and
Heaven. Heaven was a horrible father to the hundred hands and
fifty heads because he imprisoned them within the Earth as they
were born. Mother Heaven was so furious with Father Heaven for
treating their children with such hatred that she looked upon their
other children for help, but only Cronus was brave enough to come
to her assistance. Cronus waited for his father to destroy him, and
from his drops of blood, giants arose. In addition to the giants, the
furies were born. The furies were the only ones who remained on
Earth and the only reason they stayed was because sin still
existed.
Zeus
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Cronus was the Lord of the universe and along side him was his
sister-wife, Rhea. Cronus and Rhea had five children but Cronus
swallowed all five because he was warned that one of his five
children would take over his kingdom. When Rhea had Zeus, her
sixth child, she successfully had him go to Crete and gave Cronus
a stone in a swaddle. Cronus thought the stone was Zeus, so he
swallowed it. Later on when Zeus was all grown up, along with his
grandmother, Mother Earth, he made his father regurgitate his five
brothers and sisters and the stone. This upset Cronus, so he took
his titan brothers and fought Zeus and his five brothers and sisters
and started a war that almost ended the universe. Zeus won the
war due to releasing the hundred handed monsters and they
fought under Zeus with their unearthly powers and also one of the
grandsons of the titans, Prometheus, fought along side Zeus. Zeus
punished his enemies, but his victory didn't last long.
Zeus continued....
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Zeus was again tried to be over throned by Earth's
new and last offspring, Typhon. Typhon was a flaming
monster with one hundred heads, but Zeus got the
better of him with his thunder and lightening. The last
attempt to dethrone Zeus was when the Giants
rebelled. The Giants were defeated because the gods
were very powerful and had help from Hercules. Due
to their defeat, the giants were forced to go down to
Tartarus. From then on, Zeus and his brothers and
sisters ruled Olympus with no disturbances of
dethronement.
Allusion~
Creation of Man
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After the world was ready for mankind, Epimetheus, the brother of
Prometheus, was very careless and made the animals first giving them a
better appearance and protective covering. Epimetheus, realized too late
that he didn't leave any ideas for human appearances so he asked helped
from his brother, Prometheus. Prometheus came to the rescue and made
mankind in a superior way. He modeled the humans after the gods and
then he went to Heaven, to the sun, and he lit a torch and brought the fire
down for the protection of man.
Another version of the story of the creation of man began with the gods.
The gods created the first humans as the golden race. The golden race
were god like. They lived with bountiful amounts of food. As they passed
on their spirits remained as guardians of mankind. The second race they
created was the silver race. The silver race was worse than the first and
ended up killing each other off. The next race was the brass race. These
men were awful and very violent. Following the brass race, was a race
that was godlike heroes. Finally race is the one that is living on earth now,
the iron race.
Women
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Zeus created women to get back at Prometheus for deceiving him.
Prometheus had a soft side toward men and had men sacrifice
fatty meat and keeping the delicious meat for themselves.
Prometheus had Zeus choose between bones covered in fatty
meat and a hide disguising the good meat with entrails. Zeus
chose the fatty meat and was very disappointed but had to stay
true to bis word. Seeking revenge, he created women to punish
man and man's friend. All the gods gave gifts to the woman and
named her Pandora, meaning “the gift of all”. Pandora got into
trouble because of her general curiosity. The gods presented her
with a gift of a box full of hurtful things. Pandora ended up opening
it and releasing terrible things in the world.
Prometheus vs Zeus
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Even though Zeus owed Prometheus for backing him
up against Cronus, Zeus bound Prometheus to a rock
to question him about is future. Prometheus was the
only man to know who the mother of Zeus's child who
would try to overthrow him would be. Prometheus
refused to tell Zeus and he stayed tied to the rock until
later on released by Chiron. Chiron took Prometheus's
place and Zeus was fine with it.
Flooding
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Zeus grew angry with mankind and called upon his brother for
help. Zeus asked Poseidon to flood the earth. Hidden within a
wooden chest was Deucalion and Pyrrha, safe from the water.
Prometheus warned Deucalion about the flood and Zeus wasn't
even upset when both Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha lived.
Deucalion and Pyrrha were the only humans to survive. Both were
told to bow your heads and throw bones over your body. Both did
and as the bones and stones landed they formed into human
shape creating Stone People. With this it created a race to move
on from the damage of the flood.