Identities and Myths of Autochthony in Ancient Greece. The Earth, the Sons of the Earth
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At the heart of debates concerning identity and autochthony in ancient Greece, often we find Gaia, the Earth as a generating goddess, but also as the ever-sure foundation for goddess and humans, i.e. the civic earth. At the theogonic level, from Earth and Uranus immortal gods are generated; according to myths of foundation, from Earth first humans derive, the gegeneis or also the autochthonous. At the political level, gaia patris, the earth of fathers, seems to legitimate the function of offspring from earth. The so-called "orphic" meditation modifies the concept of genos and the couple Earth-Uranus presents a sort of displacement in advantage of Uranus-Sky.
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