The reading started out talking about a Babylonian Theogony where Hain, the ruler of Dunnu, was killed by his so that he could be the ruler and marry his mother. Amakandu then married Sea, his sister, but was killed by his son Lahar soon after. This keeps happening for the next few generations and ends with a person that’s name was missing as the ruler. The Sacrifice of Primal Man is a hymn that tells a story of the creation of the universe and all of the gods. With the Primal Man sacrificing himself, part of him made up the Earth and the rest made up all of the spiritual beings.
Hercules, the Latin equivalent of Heracles, was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene. His jealous stepmother, Juno, tried to murder the infant Hercules by putting a serpent in his cradle. Luckily for Hercules, he was born with great strength and killed the serpent. By the time Hercules was an adult, he had already killed a lion. Eventually, Juno drove Hercules insane.
One day, Set transformed himself into a vicious monster and attacked Osiris, killing him. Set then cut Osiris into pieces and distributed them throughout the length and breadth of Egypt. With Osiris dead, Set became king of Egypt, with his sister Nepthys as his wife. Nepthys, however, felt sorry for her sister Isis,
When a sun was created, a god had to be sacrificed. The first sun created was called the Jaguar sun. Tezcatlipoca only made half of a sun but he made giants that lived on his earth and lived on acorns. The sun’s brother got jealous and shot him out of the sky so Tezcatlipoca sent jaguar’s to destroy the giants. This was the first of five worlds.
Now a leader of all battles, Hercules leads an army to capture Troy, the army and Hercules easily break through the walls and defeated the Trojans. Returning home from battle, Hera sends a violent storm that leaves Hercules and his men stranded in Cos. Zeus angered by Hera’s actions against his son bound her wrist from Mount Olympus. The Coans thinking the Greeks were pirates, attacked them, while they survived the attack, Hercules was wounded. Zeus came to the rescue and healed his son. Zeus taking Hercules to Phlegra, put him right back into another war position, this time against giants.
He received from his uncles “the fiery lightning bolt - and lightning’’. That Zeus will use later. Zeus demonstrated his strength and power in the following wars: The War of the Giants, Conflict with Prometheus, Olympians vs. Titans, and in The Trojan War like we discussed in class. It suggests the readers that he maintains order at the Olympus. On the website Theios, the image ‘’K1.1 ZEUS ‘’,[11] we can appreciate that Zeus his wearing sort of a crown representing him as a king, the lightning bolt as a warrior that maintains order, and the eagle on his shoulder representing
At the time Moses was born, Pharaoh had ordered the death of all Hebrew males, but God spared Moses when his mother hid him in a basket along the banks of the Nile. Pharaoh’s daughter found the baby and decided to raise him as her own. Later, Moses fled to Midian after killing an Egyptian for cruelly beating one of his own people. There God appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush and said, “I have seen the misery of my people. I have heard their cries, I care about their suffering, and I have come to rescue them.
It is based on the Greek legend of Oedipus; a story where an Oracle prophesises that Oedipus (the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta) would kill his father and marry his Mother. With this legend, Graham had the basis to compose one of her most emotionally charged works. As with many of her works, Graham manipulated the piece to make Jocasta the protagonist. She did this to allow the audience to focus entirely on the emotions being conveyed. Graham’s Night Journey tells of Jocasta’s destiny, the triumphal entry of Oedipus, their meeting, new love and intimacy and then their devastating discovery that their relationship is not of husband and wife, but actually of mother and son.
Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and god of fire and a blacksmith. Pandora was created by Hephaestus (Panofsky, 1962). She was artistic by the gods with all the graces and deceitfully presented to human mortals for vindictive reasons. Recreation of Earth The gods clashed relentlessly in the earliest days. Their battle took place on Mount Olympus and the planet Earth.
In the Greek Olympian creation myth, Earth is represented by Gaia and she is mother to all. Sky is represented by her son Uranus. In the Maori creation myth Earth Mother is Papatuanuku and Sky Father is Ranginui. Another similarity is that in both myths, the plant and animal life that covers Mother Earth is provided to her from one of her children. In the Olympian myth, Gaia’s son, Uranus showers her with a fertile rain.