📌 Cosmogony explains how the ordered world came to be, while theogony explains how the gods came to be through births, marriages, and succession.
Cosmogony shapes the world; theogony traces divine kinship and succession.
1. What distinguishes cosmogony from theogony?
2. How does Hesiod connect world creation with divine rule in the Theogony?
3. In creation myths, what does separating elements such as sky and earth accomplish?
What does cosmogony explain about the ordered world?
How the ordered world came to be.
What does theogony explain about the gods’ origins and succession?
Their births, marriages, and succession.
In which work are world creation and divine succession one connected process?
Hesiod’s *Theogony*.
How does Hesiod’s *Theogony* connect world creation with divine succession?
It tells them as one connected process.
What does separation create in creation myths?
Room for events to occur.
What drives creation after separation in many myths?
Conflict between opposing forces.
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