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The theogony of the Greeks was first expounded and developed systematically in the poem of Hesiod.

It tells of the origin of the gods from Chaos, and of the three successive kingdoms of Uranus, Kronos, and Zeus, a representation of which we find traces in other theogonies, and in some of the myths associated with the ancient cults.

Out of the primordial Chaos comes the Earth (Gaia) and Eros (love attraction), the first of the immortals, then Night and Erebus (darkness), which copulate and give birth to Day and Ether. The earth gives birth first to the Sky (Uranus), then, without his help, mountains and the barren abyss of the sea (άτρύγετον πέλαγος), from which the sea (πόντος) is formed.

Then the Earth copulates with the Sky and gives birth to the Ocean River and Tethys, its female half.

© S. N. Trubetskoy "Metaphysics in Ancient Greece"

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The theogony of the Greeks was first expounded and developed systematically in the poem of Hesiod.

It tells of the origin of the gods from Chaos, and of the three successive kingdoms of Uranus, Kronos, and Zeus, a representation of which we find traces in other theogonies, and in some of the myths associated with the ancient cults.

Out of the primordial Chaos comes the Earth (Gaia) and Eros (love attraction), the first of the immortals, then Night and Erebus (darkness), which copulate and give birth to Day and Ether. The earth gives birth first to the Sky (Uranus), then, without his help, mountains and the barren abyss of the sea (άτρύγετον πέλαγος), from which the sea (πόντος) is formed.

Then the Earth copulates with the Sky and gives birth to the Ocean River and Tethys, its female half.

© S. N. Trubetskoy "Metaphysics in Ancient Greece"

@eurasianyouth

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