カテゴリー: 神話

キュクロープス

投稿日: 投稿者: eiko zzz

According to Wikipedia,

キュクロープス（古代ギリシャ語: Κύκλωψ、Kýklōps）は、ギリシア神話に登場する卓越した鍛冶技術を持つ単眼の巨人であり、下級神である一族である。あるいは、これを下敷き及びベースとして後世に誕生した伝説の生物をも指す。

長母音を省略してキュクロプスとも表記される。英語読みのサイクロプス (Cyclops) でも知られる。

In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes (/saɪˈkloʊpiːz/sy-KLOH-peez; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kýklōpes, “Circle-eyes” or “Round-eyes”;[1] singular Cyclops/ˈsaɪklɒps/SY-klops; Κύκλωψ, Kýklōps) are giant one-eyed creatures.[2] Three groups of Cyclopes can be distinguished. In Hesiod‘s Theogony, the Cyclopes are the three brothers Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who made for Zeus his weapon the thunderbolt.

For the ancient Greeks the name “Cyclopes” meant “Circle-eyes” or “Round-eyes”,[116] derived from the Greek kúklos (“circle”)[117] and ops (“eye”).

Hesiod, in the Theogony (c. 700 BC), described three Cyclopes: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges, who were the sons of Uranus (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), and the brothers of the Titans and Hundred-Handers, and who had a single eye set in the middle of their foreheads.

上記は、wikipediaからです。

ガイアとウラノス

投稿日: 投稿者: eiko zzz

According to wikipedia:

In Greek mythology, Gaia (/ˈɡeɪə, ˈɡaɪə/;[2] from Ancient Greek Γαῖα, a poetical form of Γῆ Gē, ‘land’ or ‘earth’),[3] also spelled Gaea/ˈdʒiːə/,[2] is the personification of the Earth[4] and one of the Greek primordial deities. Gaia is the ancestral mother—sometimes parthenogenic—of all life. She is the mother of Uranus (the sky), from whose sexual union she bore the Titans (themselves parents of many of the Olympian gods), the Cyclopes, and the Giants; as well as of Pontus (the sea), from whose union she bore the primordial sea gods. Her equivalent in the Roman pantheon was Terra.

wikipediaからの引用です。

ガイアは、ギリシャ神話で、第一世代、「大地の神」です。宇宙に何もない混沌とした状態、カオス(chaos)から生まれたとされています。どうやら、ガイアが神々を生んだようです。神話の神は、deityです。神々は、deities, になります。

pantheon: a group of deities.

Parthenogenesis (/ˌpɑːrθɪnoʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs, -θɪnə-/;[1][2] from the Greek παρθένος, parthénos, ‘virgin’ + γένεσις, génesis, ‘creation’[3]) is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which growth and development of embryos occur in a gamete (egg or sperm) without combining with another gamete (e.g., egg and sperm fusing).[4] In animals, parthenogenesis means development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell. In plants, parthenogenesis is a component process of apomixis. In algae, parthenogenesis can mean the development of an embryo from either an individual sperm or an individual egg. (from wikipedia)

また、wikipediaから引用します。

In Greek mythology, Uranus (/ˈjʊərənəs, jʊˈreɪnəs/ (listen) YOOR-ə-nəs, yoo-RAY-nəs),[3] sometimes written Ouranos (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός, lit. ‘sky‘, [uːranós]), is the personification of the sky and one of the Greek primordial deities. According to Hesiod, Uranus was the son and husband of Gaia (Earth), with whom he fathered the first generation of Titans. However, no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times,[4] and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky, and Styx might be joined, however, in solemn invocation in Homeric epic.[5] Uranus is associated with the Roman god Caelus and the Jewish god Yahweh.

ウーラノスは、ギリシャ神話第一世代「空の神」で、「大地の神」ガイアの息子で夫です。