For this week's reading, I'm reviewing Hesiod's "Theogony" and how it is structured. In this myth, Gaia is the earth who conceives her children with the very sky that she births as "someone her equal" as a consummation myth (Hesiod line 14). It's interesting to note in this myth that only "Air" and "Day" are products of "love with Erebos" (Hesiod line 13) while the rest of the offspring in this myth born of Gaia and Ouranos are considered "dreadful" (Hesiod line 34). I'm familiar with some of the other stories about Zeus and his mischievous overlording of the other gods but I wasn't versed in the myth of Gaia and Ouranos before this week's reading. There appears to be an underlying notion in this myth that the elements have a pure, love based origin while the children of Gaia and Ouranos seem to bare a resemblance to the ideas of original sin, as seen in Christianity and Catholicism. This similarity speaks to the ways that humans share pieces of their stories with each other in ways that both inform and perpetuate their own traditions
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