Chapter 3: How the World

1
Chapter 3How the World Mankind Were Created
2
CHAOS
Erebus (Death)
Night
Love
Day
Light
EARTH
Father Heaven
Mother Earth
3
EARTH
Father Heaven (Ouranos)
Mother Earth (Gaea)
3 MONSTERS hated by their father - huge
strong 100 hands 50 heads 3 Cyclopes one
eye in the middle of their foreheads 12 Titans
Cronus, wounds father Rhea (sister)
CRONUS
RHEA
Zeus, 6th child Cronus ate the 1st 5 kids due
to a prophecy (Rhea tricked w/stone Zeus in
Crete)
4
Cronus Mommas Boy

• Ouranos hated three 50-headed children
  (imprisoned them w/in earth)
• Outraged Gaea (asked Cyclopes Titans to free
  children)
• Cronus agreed fought wounded father
• Took over as ruler of Heaven Earth

5
Father Heaven
Blood of Ouranos
Giants
Erinyes (Furies) snakes for hair tears of blood
6
Zeus, the Conqueror

• Made Cronus cough up 5 kids
• W/ siblings fought Cronus Titans
• Enlisted help of 100-hand monsters Prometheus
• Won banished Titans who opposed him to Tartarus
• Made Atlas hold earth heaven on shoulders
• Killed giant, Typhon buried in volcano

Gods conquered monsters setting stage for mankind!
7
The World According to the Greeks

• Earth was disk divided in middle by water
  (Mediterranean Black seas)
• Ocean flowed around Earth
• Strange marvelous lands (dead Cimmerians
  lived in darkness)
• North Hyperboreans Muses
• South Ethiopians

8
Creation Story 1

• Prometheus Epimetheus
• Epimetheus designed humans
• Gave best gifts to animals strength, swiftness,
  courage, shrewdness ( feathers, fur, wings,
  shells)
• Nothing good left for humans
• Epimethus asked Prometheus for help

9
Creation Story 1

• Prometheus Epimetheus
• Prometheus made humans like gods (stood upright
  walked) gave them fire

10
Prometheus

• Prometheus knew who would bear son to overthrow
  Zeus refused to tell Z (we do not know either)
• Z chained P to rock in Caucasus eagle tears _at_
  him, eating liver
• P was god so punishment could last forever
• Today symbolizes a great rebel against injustice
  and blind power

11
Creation Story 2

• 1st Age gods created golden race guardians of
  humanity
• 2nd Age silver unintelligent group who injure
  each other
• 3rd Age brass violent people

• 4th Age godlike heroes
• 5th Age iron evil next generation became
  worse Zeus destroyed them

12
Creation Story 3

• Zeus destroyed humans by flood because were
  wicked (The Deluge-Noahs Ark)
• Deucalion (son of P) Pyrrha (daughter of E)
  only survivors (saved in wooden chest) gave
  thanks at temple

• Voice in temple Earth is the mother of all
  her bones are the stones
• Threw stones over shoulder
• Stones became people

13
Eves Apple? No, Pandoras Box!

• Zeus angered when Prometheus gave fire to men
  tricked gods into agreeing to let humans take
  meat of sacrificed animals
• Zeus got revenge Pandora
• Pandora unleashed evil w/box (apple)
• Lid opened plagues sorrows flew out also
  hope, to deal w/bad stuff