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Theogony
Hesiod
translation · c. 700 BCE
Hesiod, Theogony.
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Hellenic religion
Three is associated with Fate.
Hesiod names the Moirai as daughters who allot. Three here is a Theogony count, not a Vedic triad of fires.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Fate appears in Hellenic religion.
The Theogony’s Moirai are a genealogical fate. They are not Ptolemy’s inclination and not Virgil’s fatum.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Pleiades is associated with Seven.
Greek and later European speech calls them seven sisters. The cluster’s bright members are not always seven to every eye, and Matariki is not that myth.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Hera belongs to Hellenic religion.
Hera is a Greek goddess of Argos and of marriage in the poems. She is not a peacock-spirit of later India.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE; Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English
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Tartarus appears in Hellenic religion.
Hesiod’s Theogony places Tartaros as a deep pit in the earth, a bronze-walled confinement below the ordinary dead. A Greek cosmogonic below, not Hades’ house and not a Christian hell.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Apples of the Hesperides appears in Hellenic religion.
Hesiod’s Theogony places the Hesperides as guardians of golden apples beyond Ocean. A named cosmogonic fruit-hoard, not Eris’s wedding apple and not the Golden Fleece.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Adamant appears in Hellenic religion.
Hesiod’s Theogony has Gaia make a sickle of adamant for Cronus. A named unbreakable material in that cosmogony, not diamond as a gem-market stone and not orichalcum.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Keraunos appears in Hellenic religion.
Hesiod’s Theogony has the Cyclopes give Zeus the keraunos, the thunderbolt, with thunder and lightning. A named fire-weapon in that cosmogony, not a vajra and not Mjölnir.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Chains of Prometheus appears in Hellenic religion.
Hesiod’s Theogony has Zeus bind Prometheus with unbreakable bonds and a driven shaft. A named binding in that cosmogony, not Gleipnir and not Tartarus restated as a place.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Styx appears in Hellenic religion.
Hesiod’s Theogony makes Styx an Oceanid whose water is the oath the gods swear. A named Hellenic oath-river, not Virgil’s underworld crossing, and not Lethe.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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Apples of the Hesperides is sacred to Hera.
Hesiod’s Theogony gives Hera the Hesperides as keepers of her golden apples. A named fruit of that goddess, not the Golden Fleece, and not the Golden Bough.
from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE
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