When Kronos was in charge, humans were living in a golden age and Zeus ruined it.So again, why is Kronos the villain?
>>18664322Hard to say whether it was actually "better" for humans or not. Zeus' overthrowing of Kronos also represents order's triumph over primitive chaos/wilderness. Notice how Zeus, his siblings, and his children are usually gods with domains related to civilization, such as arts, crafts, law, justice, knowledge, trade, commerce, etc. while the Titans (though not all of them) tend to be more closely related to the natural world (sun, moon, stars, seasons, memory, etc.). Besides, the context in which the golden age and Pandora's pithos was brought up is also important... it's basically ye olde mythic version of "back in my days, things were better" where Hesiod was planning how things sucked in the current iron age.So, like, sure, the golden age might be better in the sense you probably wouldn't have to worry about pretty much anything... because you were probably the equivalent of those primitive pre-Homo sapiens who didn't have the concept of an existence beyond basic survival.
>>18664322Because Zeus won.
>>18664322Because Kronos' rule was fundamentally unjust as it was dependent on the suppression of the natural forces his own children and his siblings, the Cyclopes and Hecantoncheires, represented. Conversely, Zeus' rule is characterized by its alignment with cosmic order (Themis), the birth of justice (Dike) through his union with Themis and with the allocation of fitting role and honor to all natural forces, that is to say to all divinities.justice herself was born from the union of Zeus and Metis, the goddess that embodies something akin to the Hindu Dharma or Rta. Kronos himself is akin to eternal time, and with him in charge the universe was not allowed to unfold and become how it is meant to be, he was literally eating the future. This is also why he presides over the isles of the blessed. The heroes having already reached divinity and perfection have no need of change.
>>18664323Fascinating. I remember reading somewhere that the Garden of Eden is also an allegory for when we were primitive homo-sapiens and that the “original sin/knowledge of good and evil” was the development of consciousness and civilization. So do you think there might be a connection?
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>>18664322seeing the relatively few ancient roman painting that survive just infuriates me because normoids think painting didnt get gud until renaissance jesus
>>18664322Because the order of Cronus/Saturn (or Yaldaboath) was illusory and tyrannical. Its Golden Age was necessarily unsustainable and eventually collapses, necessitating Zeus (Sabaoth) to clean it up and restore some semblance of order. Zeus/Sabaoth is also less of a tyrant and rekindled a limited relationship between the material cosmos and the pleroma.
>>18664543Absolutely given that Prometheus uplifts humanity by giving them fire after making them out if the remains of Zagreus (where the soul comes from) and the destroyed titans. I dont think its accidental that humanity is the "last" creation in Abrahamism and Hellenic polytheism or that both stories have a higher being coming down and helping humanity go from primitive to a thinking and creating species
