You're going to be. Hello and welcome back to the history of ancient Greece episode 2 the Greek Genesis.

Every culture has myths. The Greek Genesis

Every culture has myths, but those of the Greeks come down to us in great detail, and underlie Western culture quite a bit.

Myth has come to be synonymous with something fictitious, but in its most basic sense, a

Muthos or myth is a traditional story, handed down orally through generations.

The stories aren't trying to be true or false. They're just

saying something about the human experience. Before the development of the scientific method

and philosophical thought, myths were mankind's way of explaining their origin and the natural phenomena that occurred around them.

Every culture has their own creation story, but the Greek version speaks to a much broader audience and tells us about the culture that produced it, more so than their views on creation itself.

The Greek creation story, written by Heesiot, tells how the world developed from chaos to an ordered structure controlled by the Olympian gods.

Heesite's Theogany was one of the earliest works of Greek literature, written around 750 BC, second only to Homer. The agony comes from the combination of the Greek word

Theos meaning God and the root Agoni meaning birth of. Thus theogony refers to the birth of the

birth of the gods. Creation began with chaos, a shapeless blurred material from which came the wide bosom gaya,

or mother-Earth, arrebus or darkness. the wide bosom Gaea, or Mother Earth,

Aribus or darkness, and Nix or night.

It does not say how exactly these came from chaos, though,

but nonetheless they did.

When Heesiate describes the creation story,

he divided things into opposites, but not polar opposites.

There are still interconnections,

because opposites always come together at some point.

For example, Chaos means gaping

...