Reading Notes: Creation Stories

Earth Mothers and Rebellious Sons


  • Duality: Good/ Evil, Light/ Dark, Day/ Night
  • Mother Earth

  • Gaia (Mother Earth)
  • Mother of Kronos, Titans, and One eye cyclops (100 arms, 50 heads)
  • Mother Earth makes sense because mothers birth, are nurturing, give life/food/etc
  • Many myths mother earths love children but not always husband
  • Gaia mad at husband for locking away children, gave sickle to Kronos (son) who castrates father
  • Kronos and sister have kids
  • Kronos swallows kids
  • Wife and parents snuck off and had zeus hiding him from Kronos
  • Kronos is presented with "child" which is actually stone wrapped in cloth
  • Kronos swallows stone child
  • Zeus grows up and works to overthrow Kronos
  • Zeus frees cyclops and titans who help overthrow Kronos, releasing siblings from belly

  • Prose Edda creation story, Nors

  • Enuma Elish, Babylonia 
  • Fresh Water and Salt Water Personifications get together and produce land in form of silt deposits
  • children create children
  • grandkids killed grandfather
  • grandmother mad and creates monsters to attack grandkids
  • fighting ensues
  • grandmother's body used to create world

  • parents often divided up to create world
  • sacrifice religion origins



Image Information: Gaia, Pixabay
Bibliography: Crash Course Mythology, Complexly

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