Myths of Creation
Morford and Lenardon, Chapter 1

Creation According to Hesiod

Theogony = "Birth of the Gods"    

power of the Muses (divinely inspired revelation)

    museum 

First principles:

    Chaos (Void)

    Gaia (Earth)

    Tartarus, Erebus, Night

    Eros (Sexual Love)

Primacy and Mystery of Eros

    procreative force

Creation According to Ovid

    process of metamorphosis

        The Ovid Project / Structure of Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

    Chaos as crude, unformed mass

Sacred Marriage of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth)

    hieros gamos = sacred marriage

   anthropomorphic creation: cosmos as  human

    male versus female

    creation as a procreative act (Eros)

    patriarchy versus matriarchy

Titans and Their Descendants

    Ocean and Oceanids

    Sun (Hyperion, Helius)

        Phaethon

    Moon (Selene)

        Endymion

    Dawn (Eos)

    Tithonus

Castration of Uranus and Birth of Aphrodite

    Oedipus complex

    male fear of castration

    power of Aphrodite’s fertility

Cronus (Sky) and Rhea (Earth) and Birth of Zeus

    succession myth

    Oedipus complex again

    cannibalism

Religious and Historical Interpretation

    Religious syncretism

    Aegean Mother-goddess (Rhea)

Indo-European Sky-god (Zeus)

In the Modern World

    Muses ("Muse", the film)

    Titans

    Eros

    Gaia principle