1. Hesiod’s Theogony The Muses, Genealogy, & the Succession of the Gods

2. From Cyme, Ionia to Ascra, Boeotia

3. Sacred Mountains Helikon - Muses Olympus - Gods Parnassus - Apollo (& Muses) Ossa & Pelion - Giants

4. Works and Days Hesiod to Perses Real Brother? Poetic Construct? Smart brother tries to educate stupid brother

5. Sometimes, stupid brother ends up on top!

6. Invocation or Epiphany

7. Apollonius Rhodius & Vergil

8. Zeus & Mnemosyne Memory & Oral Poetry

9. 9 nights with Mnemosyne Calliope (Epic) Clio (history) Erato (lyric poetry) Euterpe (pipe/flute) Melpomene (tragedy) Polyhymnia (mime) Terpsichore (dance and light verse) Thalia (comedy) Urania (astronomy)

10. Theogony

12. Family tree in Verse 2 families over 3 generations Monotony vs digressions Spontaneous emergence of 4 divine entities: Chaos (Chasm) Earth Tartara Eros

13. Hesiodic Flesh Dissolver vs. Playful Child

14. Complicated Family Tree Parthenogenesis Incest Crossed and confused generational lines Multiple partners e.g. Zeus marries 2 aunts, 2 sisters, three cousins, and sleeps with many others

15. The Succession of the Gods Heaven (Ouranos) & Earth (Gaia) Kronos & Rhea Zeus &…pretty much everyone –(it’s good to be king!)

16. Ouranos Uranus Heaven

17. Kronos: Mamma’s Boy

18. Triumph of Kronos

19. Kids: it’s what’s for dinner Not in Her In Him!

21. Rhea outwits Kronos

22. Curetes, Kouretes

23. Goat’s Milk: Drink of the Gods Amalthea, the original nanny goat

24. Reign of Zeus Zeus and Hera How does he prevent next succession? Learn from errors of predecessors

25. Swallowing Desire: Zeus & Metis

26. Crushing Revolts: Zeus vs. Typhoeus Child of Hera or Gaia Snake Monster Under Etna

27. Keeping it in your Tunic Zeus & Thetis Son of thetis will be greater than Father

28. Near Eastern Parallel: Hurrian-Hittite Succession Anu Kumarbi Teshub the Storm-god Hedamu the Serpent Ullikummi the living pillar

29. Dangerous Vaginas North America Central America South America Pacific Islands Asia Near East Greece

30. Yanomamo, Brazil 1 of first women had toothed vagina that bit off consort’s penis “pregnant” = satiated/full-fed "to eat" = "to copulate."

31. Polynesia Savior-god Maui sought eternal life by crawling into the mouth/vagina of his mother Hina, in effect trying to return to womb of the Creatress; she bit him in two and killed him.

32. N. American Trickster Heroes: Kicking Boy & Coyote First women had toothed vaginas Hero broke teeth by inserting objects Now safe to sleep with women Often younger sister helps hero defeat toothy older sister Ponca-Otoe, Apache, Pawnee, Arapaho

33. Kinky Coyote Yurok (California) aetiology of obsidian Coyote extracts all but one tooth… Feels very nice!

34. Lamia “gluttonous gullet” “lecherous vagina”

35. Lamia Female Cave-dwelling (damp) Eater of man flesh Vampire-like Killer of Babies Mother of Scylla Seductress Body of snake, breasts and head of woman

36. Otto Rank’s Vagina dentata: NOT a song from The Lion King Georgia O’Keefe Dawn O’Keefe

37. http://www.teethmovie.com/

38. Japanese Original

39. Freud & the Medusa’s Head "Probably no male human being is spared the terrifying shock of threatened castration at the sight of female genitals.” - Freud "Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered." - Camille Paglia, "Sexual Personae".

40. the Vagina Dentata credible? Weakness & impotence after ejaculation Ejaculation as a loss of a man's vital force, "eaten" by a woman. "Every orgasm is a little death: the death of the 'little man,' the penis."

41. Powerful Women still represent threat to some men http://www.hillarynutcracker.com/

42. Reclaiming the Vagina Dentata