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Myths of Creation and Cosmogony
Uranus, Ge/Gaia, and their children
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Undergraduate 1
03/09/2012

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Uranus
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sky, heaven; male as he is mobile, rain from sky can be seen as fertilizing force to Ge/Gaia
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Ge/Gaia
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earth mother
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Cronus
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Rhea's brother and consort, severed his father's genitals; afraid his children would overthrow him so he swallowed them
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Rhea
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Cronus's sister and consort; hid Zeus from Cronus
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Atlas
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Titan who supported the heavens, keeping the sky and earth from copulating; punished by Zeus as this god took the side of the Titans in the Titanomachy
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Titans
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Gods before the Olympians, born of Ge and Uranus
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Giants
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Born of the blood from the severed genitals of Uranus
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Cyclopes
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Born of Ge/Gaia and Uranus, forged lightning bolts
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Hundred-handed
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Monsters born of Ge/Gaia and Uranus
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Mnemosyne
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(memory) births nine Muses by Zeus
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Chaos
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a big, empty place, void
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Epimetheus
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aftersight
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