There’s Life After Death, An Attempt to Understand the Orphic Tradition
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Orphic Theogony of Hesia
Zeus has, in essence, swallowed the universe and made himself both the first and last born king. He's made himself kind of everything by doing this. The stories were heavily, heavily influenced by the cultures east of greece. In this fragment, night is the primordial mother, rather than gaia, she is the first being. That's kind of orphic in itself. It also appears to include the traditional astration of uranos, but with the added horror show detail of zeus swallowing uranos falus. Yes, enjoy that bit better still.
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