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Hesiod, Theogony (and Works and Days)
In Hesiod's Theogony a son takes power with a jagged sickle. A Hittite myth tells the same story.
c.700 BCE
A Hittite god and a Greek god both seize power by mutilating their fathers. How did this story cross cultures, and why did it stick?
Photo: Hesiod, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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