Ancient Cosmology II

Abstract

This chapter shows that the third major cosmological description of this time period occurs when the sky father kills the mother and her son-lover and becomes the sole creator—and the origin of centrifugal motion. This occurs in a historical description of theomachy and can be found in Babylonian and Greek cosmology. The Babylonian cosmology found in the Enuma Elish adds another dimension to the previous Bronze Age cosmological descriptions. In Archaic Greece, a similar cosmological theomachy emerged. Hesiod’s Theogony gives us one of the oldest and clearest accounts of Archaic Greek cosmology and theomachy.