Crash Course World Mythology #4: Earth Mothers

Why might people want to characterize Earth as a mother rather than a father?

Summarize one of the world’s oldest creation stories from the Enuma Elish from Babylonia:

In general, the world’s creation myths include some kind of ___________________.

In the 1970s, British scientist James Lovelock updated the myth in a scientific ___________________,

defining “Mother Earth”, under her Greek name, ______________,

as “a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a _________________

or __________________ system

which seeks an optimal physical and chemical ____________________ for life on this planet.”

Coeus, Crius, Theia, Rhea, Memory, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus (God of Time) are beings called the _______________.

Why might people want to characterize Earth as a mother rather than a father?

Knowing that he needed to unseat his father and the other Titans, and also to set his siblings free from daddy’s tummy, ___________ released the fifty-headed hecatoncheires, and together, they went to war.

He also freed Rhea’s other children, and together, they defeated the Titans, and Zeus and his family became the __________ ___ ___ ___________.

The idea of the son rising up to _________________ the father,

causing a _______ __ _______, is pretty common in a number of creation stories.

Summarize one of the world’s oldest creation stories from the Enuma Elish from Babylonia:

Once again, we see that a parent is divided up to create the physical world; often this division is described as a ________________

and used to explain ______________ _______________ we find in many religions.