Hesiod’s Theogony The Muses, Genealogy, & the Succession of the Gods.
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Transcript of Hesiod’s Theogony The Muses, Genealogy, & the Succession of the Gods.
Hesiod’s Theogony
The Muses, Genealogy, & the Succession of the Gods
From Cyme, Ionia to Ascra, Boeotia
Sacred Mountains• Helikon
- Muses• Olympus
- Gods• Parnassus
- Apollo (& Muses)
• Ossa & Pelion- Giants
Works and Days
• Hesiod to Perses• Real Brother?• Poetic Construct?• Smart brother tries to educate
stupid brother
Sometimes, stupid brother ends up on top!
Invocation or Epiphany
Apollonius Rhodius & Vergil
Zeus & Mnemosyne
• Memory & Oral Poetry
9 nights with Mnemosyne
• Calliope (Epic)• Clio (history)• Erato (lyric poetry)• Euterpe (pipe/flute)• Melpomene (tragedy)• Polyhymnia (mime)• Terpsichore (dance
and light verse)• Thalia (comedy)• Urania (astronomy)
Theogony
Theogony
• Family tree in Verse • 2 families over 3 generations• Monotony vs digressions
• Spontaneous emergence of 4 divine entities:
• Chaos (Chasm)• Earth• Tartara• Eros
Hesiodic Flesh Dissolver vs. Playful Child
Complicated Family Tree
• Parthenogenesis• Incest• Crossed and confused
generational lines• Multiple partners
• e.g. Zeus marries 2 aunts, 2 sisters, three cousins, and sleeps with many others
The Succession of the Gods
• Heaven (Ouranos) & Earth (Gaia)
• Kronos & Rhea
• Zeus &…pretty much everyone– (it’s good to be king!)
OuranosUranusHeaven
Kronos: Mamma’s Boy
Triumph of Kronos
Kids: it’s what’s for dinner
• Not in Her• In Him!
Rhea outwits Kronos
Curetes, Kouretes
Goat’s Milk: Drink of the Gods
• Amalthea, the original nanny goat
Reign of Zeus
• Zeus and Hera
• How does he prevent next succession?
• Learn from errors of predecessors
Swallowing Desire: Zeus & Metis
Crushing Revolts: Zeus vs. Typhoeu
s• Child of
Hera or Gaia
• Snake Monster
• Under Etna
Keeping it in your
Tunic
• Zeus & Thetis
• Son of thetis will be greater than Father
Near Eastern Parallel: Hurrian-Hittite Succession
• Anu• Kumarbi• Teshub the Storm-god
• Hedamu the Serpent• Ullikummi the living
pillar
Dangerous Vaginas
• North America• Central America• South America• Pacific Islands• Asia• Near East• Greece
Yanomamo, Brazil
• 1 of first women had toothed vagina that bit off consort’s penis
• “pregnant” = satiated/full-fed
• "to eat" = "to copulate."
Polynesia
Savior-god Maui sought eternal life by crawling into the mouth/vagina of his mother Hina, in effect trying to return to womb of the Creatress; she bit him in two and killed him.
N. American Trickster Heroes: Kicking Boy & Coyote
• First women had toothed vaginas
• Hero broke teeth by inserting objects
• Now safe to sleep with women
• Often younger sister helps hero defeat toothy older sister
• Ponca-Otoe, Apache, Pawnee, Arapaho
Kinky Coyote
• Yurok (California) aetiology of obsidian
• Coyote extracts all but one tooth…Feels very nice!
Lamia
“gluttonous gullet”
“lecherous vagina”
Lamia• Female • Cave-dwelling (damp)• Eater of man flesh • Vampire-like• Killer of Babies• Mother of Scylla• Seductress • Body of snake, breasts
and head of woman
Otto Rank’s Vagina dentata:NOT a song from The Lion King
Georgia O’Keefe Dawn O’Keefe
http://www.teethmovie.com/
Japanese Original
Freud & the Medusa’s Head
• "Probably no male human being is spared the terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of female genitals.” - Freud
• "Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered." - Camille Paglia, "Sexual Personae".
the Vagina Dentata credible?• Weakness & impotence
after ejaculation
• Ejaculation as a loss of a man's vital force, "eaten" by a woman.
• "Every orgasm is a little death: the death of the 'little man,' the penis."
Powerful Women still represent threat to
some men
• http://www.hillarynutcracker.com/
Reclaiming the Vagina Dentata