Comparative mythology corpus

batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l2556-l2655

batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l2556-l2655

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record_id: batch.motif.greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg-l2556-l2655
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
passage_locator:
  label: THE PRECEPTS OF CHIRON / THE GREAT WORKS / THE IDAEAN DACTYLS / THE THEOGONY;
    lines 2556-2655
  start: '2556'
  end: '2655'
  translation: Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
  notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
    human review required.
canonical_text:
  quote: ''
  summary: The passage invokes the Muses to recount the first coming-to-be of gods
    and cosmos. It narrates the emergence of Chaos, Earth, Tartarus, Eros, Night,
    Day, Heaven, Sea, and divine offspring; Earth and Heaven produce Titans, Cyclopes,
    and hundred-armed sons. Heaven hides his children in Earth, Earth creates a flint
    sickle and recruits Cronos, who ambushes and mutilates Heaven. From the resulting
    blood and cast-off members arise Erinyes, Giants, Meliae, and Aphrodite, whose
    honors concern love, desire, smiles, deceits, and graciousness. Heaven names his
    sons Titans and foretells vengeance.
  language: English
  quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
  text: The speaker asks the Muses, described as dwelling in Olympus, to tell from
    the beginning how gods, earth, rivers, sea, stars, heaven, divine honors, and
    Olympus first came to be.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: obs:2
  text: Chaos is said to come to be first, followed by Earth, Tartarus, and Eros.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: obs:3
  text: Erebus and black Night come from Chaos; Aether and Day are born from Night
    after union with Erebus.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: obs:4
  text: Earth bears Heaven, Hills, and Pontus, then lies with Heaven and bears a series
    of children including Oceanus, Rhea, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronos.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:5
  text: Cronos is described as wily, youngest, most terrible among Earth and Heaven's
    children, and hating his father.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: obs:6
  text: The Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, and Arges have one eye in the middle of their
    foreheads and are associated with giving Zeus thunder and making the thunderbolt.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: obs:7
  text: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes are described as sons of Earth and Heaven with
    one hundred arms and fifty heads each.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: obs:8
  text: Heaven hides his children in a secret place of Earth and does not allow them
    to come into the light.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
- id: obs:9
  text: Earth groans under confinement, makes grey flint, shapes a great sickle, and
    urges her sons to punish their father.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: obs:10
  text: Cronos accepts his mother's plan, is placed in ambush by Earth, and receives
    the jagged sickle.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
- id: obs:11
  text: Heaven comes at night longing for love and spreads himself over Earth; Cronos
    reaches from ambush and cuts off his father's members with the sickle.
  category: action
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: obs:12
  text: Blood drops from Heaven are received by Earth and later produce the Erinyes,
    Giants, and Meliae.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: obs:13
  text: The severed members are cast into the sea; foam gathers around them, and a
    maiden grows in it, later coming forth as Aphrodite near Cyprus.
  category: sequence
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: obs:14
  text: Eros and Desire accompany Aphrodite from her birth as she goes to the assembly
    of the gods.
  category: relationship
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:15
  text: Aphrodite's allotted portion among gods and humans includes maidens' whisperings,
    smiles, deceits, sweet delight, love, and graciousness.
  category: attribute
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: obs:16
  text: Heaven calls his sons Titans in reproach and says vengeance for their fearful
    deed will come afterward.
  category: speech
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
figures:
- id: fig:1
  name_or_label: Muses
  description: Children of Zeus invoked to grant song and tell the origins of gods
    and cosmos.
  role_refs:
  - role:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: fig:2
  name_or_label: Chaos
  description: The first being or condition said to come to be.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:3
  name_or_label: Earth
  description: Wide-bosomed foundation of the deathless ones; mother of Heaven, Hills,
    Pontus, Titans, Cyclopes, and hundred-armed sons; maker of the flint sickle and
    planner against Heaven.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  - role:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:10
- id: fig:4
  name_or_label: Heaven
  description: Starry Heaven, born from Earth and later consort of Earth; father who
    hides his children and is mutilated by Cronos.
  role_refs:
  - role:5
  - role:6
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:7
  - ev:11
  - ev:15
- id: fig:5
  name_or_label: Tartarus
  description: Dim Tartarus in the depth of wide-pathed Earth.
  role_refs:
  - role:2
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: fig:6
  name_or_label: Eros
  description: Love, fairest among the deathless gods, who overcomes minds and counsels;
    later accompanies Aphrodite at birth.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:14
- id: fig:7
  name_or_label: Erebus
  description: Born from Chaos and united with Night in the birth of Aether and Day.
  role_refs:
  - role:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:8
  name_or_label: Night
  description: Born from Chaos; bears Aether and Day after union with Erebus.
  role_refs:
  - role:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:9
  name_or_label: Aether and Day
  description: Children of Night and Erebus.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: fig:10
  name_or_label: Pontus
  description: The fruitless deep with raging swell, born from Earth without sweet
    union of love.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: fig:11
  name_or_label: Cronos
  description: Wily youngest child of Earth and Heaven; accepts Earth's plan, ambushes
    Heaven, and cuts off his father's members.
  role_refs:
  - role:10
  - role:11
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: fig:12
  name_or_label: Cyclopes
  description: Brontes, Steropes, and Arges; one-eyed sons of Earth and Heaven, makers
    of Zeus's thunderbolt.
  role_refs:
  - role:12
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: fig:13
  name_or_label: Hundred-armed sons
  description: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes; sons of Earth and Heaven with one hundred
    arms and fifty heads each.
  role_refs:
  - role:13
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: fig:14
  name_or_label: Erinyes
  description: Beings born from the blood drops of Heaven received by Earth.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: fig:15
  name_or_label: Giants
  description: Beings born from Heaven's blood; described with gleaming armour and
    long spears.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: fig:16
  name_or_label: Meliae
  description: Nymphs born from Heaven's blood received by Earth.
  role_refs:
  - role:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: fig:17
  name_or_label: Aphrodite
  description: Maiden grown in foam from Heaven's severed members in the sea; comes
    forth as an awful and lovely goddess and receives honors connected with love and
    delight.
  role_refs:
  - role:14
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
- id: fig:18
  name_or_label: Desire
  description: Comely Desire follows Aphrodite at her birth and as she enters the
    assembly of the gods.
  role_refs:
  - role:7
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: fig:19
  name_or_label: Titans
  description: Sons of Heaven who are named Titans in reproach after a fearful deed,
    with vengeance said to come afterward.
  role_refs:
  - role:15
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
roles:
- id: role:1
  label: inspired narrators
  assigned_to:
  - fig:1
  basis: They are asked to grant song and declare origins from the beginning.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: role:2
  label: primordial presence
  assigned_to:
  - fig:2
  - fig:5
  basis: Chaos comes first, and Tartarus is listed among the first cosmic realities.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: role:3
  label: generative mother
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  - fig:8
  basis: Earth and Night bear divine or cosmic offspring.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
- id: role:4
  label: plotting parent
  assigned_to:
  - fig:3
  basis: Earth makes the sickle, addresses her sons, and reveals the plot to Cronos.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:10
- id: role:5
  label: divine father
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: Heaven fathers children with Earth.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:6
  label: oppressive parent
  assigned_to:
  - fig:4
  basis: Heaven hides his children within Earth and is accused of shameful outrage.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
- id: role:7
  label: power of love and desire
  assigned_to:
  - fig:6
  - fig:17
  - fig:18
  basis: Eros overcomes minds and counsels; Aphrodite's portion includes love and
    sweet delight; Desire follows her.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:14
- id: role:8
  label: consort in generation
  assigned_to:
  - fig:7
  basis: Erebus unites with Night, who bears Aether and Day.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
- id: role:9
  label: born being
  assigned_to:
  - fig:9
  - fig:10
  - fig:14
  - fig:15
  - fig:16
  basis: These figures are described as born from earlier beings, blood, or Earth.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  - ev:12
- id: role:10
  label: youngest hostile son
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: Cronos is youngest and most terrible of Earth and Heaven's children and hates
    his father.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: role:11
  label: ambusher and mutilator
  assigned_to:
  - fig:11
  basis: Cronos hides in ambush and cuts off Heaven's members with a jagged sickle.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: role:12
  label: one-eyed thunderbolt makers
  assigned_to:
  - fig:12
  basis: The Cyclopes have one eye and make the thunderbolt for Zeus.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: role:13
  label: many-limbed terrible offspring
  assigned_to:
  - fig:13
  basis: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes have a hundred arms, fifty heads, and irresistible
    strength.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: role:14
  label: foam-born goddess
  assigned_to:
  - fig:17
  basis: A maiden grows in foam around the cast-off members and comes forth as Aphrodite.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: role:15
  label: reproachfully named divine sons
  assigned_to:
  - fig:19
  basis: Heaven calls his sons Titans in reproach and predicts vengeance.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
symbols:
- id: sym:1
  label: Olympus
  literal_form: snowy Olympus and the house of Olympus
  associated_figures:
  - fig:1
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mountain
  - cosmic_mountain
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
- id: sym:2
  label: Chaos
  literal_form: Chaos as first to come to be
  associated_figures:
  - fig:2
  taxonomy_refs:
  - chaos
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
- id: sym:3
  label: Earth
  literal_form: wide-bosomed Earth, foundation and womb-like place receiving and producing
    beings
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:4
  - ev:7
  - ev:12
- id: sym:4
  label: Sea
  literal_form: Pontus and the surging sea into which Heaven's severed members are
    cast
  associated_figures:
  - fig:10
  - fig:17
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:13
- id: sym:5
  label: Flint sickle
  literal_form: great jagged sickle made from grey flint
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  - fig:11
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
- id: sym:6
  label: One eye
  literal_form: one orbed eye set in the Cyclopes' foreheads
  associated_figures:
  - fig:12
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
- id: sym:7
  label: Hundred arms and fifty heads
  literal_form: one hundred arms and fifty heads on each of Cottus, Briareos, and
    Gyes
  associated_figures:
  - fig:13
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:6
- id: sym:8
  label: Foam birth
  literal_form: white foam around immortal flesh in the sea, from which a maiden grows
  associated_figures:
  - fig:17
  taxonomy_refs:
  - water
  - sacred_birth
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
- id: sym:9
  label: Blood drops received by Earth
  literal_form: bloody drops from Heaven received by Earth, later producing Erinyes,
    Giants, and Meliae
  associated_figures:
  - fig:3
  - fig:14
  - fig:15
  - fig:16
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
- id: sym:10
  label: Thunderbolt
  literal_form: thunder and thunderbolt given or made for Zeus by the Cyclopes
  associated_figures:
  - fig:12
  taxonomy_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
scenes:
- id: scene:1
  label: Invocation for a cosmogonic song
  summary: The Muses are invoked to sing the origins of gods, earth, sea, stars, heaven,
    divine honors, and Olympus from the beginning.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:1
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:1
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
- id: scene:2
  label: First emergence of primordial beings
  summary: Chaos comes first, followed by Earth, Tartarus, and Eros; from Chaos come
    Erebus and Night, and from Night and Erebus come Aether and Day.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:2
  - fig:3
  - fig:5
  - fig:6
  - fig:7
  - fig:8
  - fig:9
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:2
  - sym:3
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
- id: scene:3
  label: Earth's generations with and without union
  summary: Earth bears Heaven, Hills, and Pontus, then with Heaven bears Oceanus,
    other named divine children, and Cronos.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:10
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  - sym:4
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
- id: scene:4
  label: Birth of extraordinary children
  summary: Earth and Heaven produce the one-eyed Cyclopes and the hundred-armed, fifty-headed
    Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:12
  - fig:13
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:6
  - sym:7
  - sym:10
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:5
  - ev:6
- id: scene:5
  label: Concealment and Earth's plan
  summary: Heaven hides the children inside Earth; Earth groans, makes a flint sickle,
    and calls upon her sons to punish him. Cronos accepts the task.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:3
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
- id: scene:6
  label: Ambush and mutilation of Heaven
  summary: Heaven comes to Earth at night longing for love, and Cronos from ambush
    cuts off his father's members with the sickle.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:4
  - fig:11
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:5
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:11
- id: scene:7
  label: Births from blood and sea foam
  summary: Earth receives Heaven's blood and later bears Erinyes, Giants, and Meliae.
    The severed members drift in the sea, foam forms, and Aphrodite grows and comes
    forth.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:3
  - fig:14
  - fig:15
  - fig:16
  - fig:17
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:4
  - sym:8
  - sym:9
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:12
  - ev:13
- id: scene:8
  label: Aphrodite's accompaniment and honors
  summary: Eros and Desire accompany Aphrodite at birth and into the divine assembly;
    her allotted honors concern love, sweetness, smiles, deceits, and graciousness.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:6
  - fig:17
  - fig:18
  symbol_refs:
  - sym:8
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:14
- id: scene:9
  label: Naming of the Titans and prophecy of vengeance
  summary: Heaven calls his sons Titans as a reproach for their deed and says vengeance
    will come afterward.
  figure_refs:
  - fig:4
  - fig:19
  symbol_refs: []
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
  label: Cosmogony from Chaos
  taxonomy_refs:
  - chaos
  basis: The account begins with Chaos coming to be first, followed by Earth, Tartarus,
    Eros, and subsequent generations of cosmic and divine beings.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage does not define Chaos beyond its priority in the sequence.
- id: motif:2
  label: Generative Earth mother
  taxonomy_refs:
  - mother_goddess
  basis: Earth bears Heaven, Hills, Pontus, numerous divine children, and later beings
    from Heaven's blood; she also acts as mother to her oppressed children.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:4
  - ev:7
  - ev:12
  confidence: high
  cautions: The taxonomy label is interpretive; the passage names Earth literally
    and emphasizes generation.
- id: motif:3
  label: Divine parent-child conflict
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_parent_child
  basis: Heaven hides his children in Earth; Earth urges the sons to punish him; Cronos,
    Heaven's son, mutilates his father.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:7
  - ev:8
  - ev:9
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  confidence: high
  cautions: The passage presents conflict within a divine family, but broader succession
    context beyond the excerpt is not used.
- id: motif:4
  label: Ambush with a divine weapon
  taxonomy_refs: []
  basis: Earth gives Cronos a jagged flint sickle and hides him in ambush before he
    attacks Heaven.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:10
  - ev:11
  confidence: high
  cautions: No available taxonomy reference exactly matches the sickle ambush pattern.
- id: motif:5
  label: Sacred or extraordinary birth from severed body and sea foam
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_birth
  basis: Aphrodite grows in white foam around immortal flesh after Heaven's severed
    members are cast into the sea.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:13
  - ev:14
  confidence: high
  cautions: The birth is extraordinary and divine; the exact phrase 'sacred birth'
    is a taxonomy mapping, not a passage term.
- id: motif:6
  label: Love and desire as divine powers
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_beloved
  basis: Eros overcomes gods and humans, and Aphrodite's honors include love, sweet
    delight, and graciousness, with Desire accompanying her.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:2
  - ev:14
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The taxonomy reference is approximate; the passage concerns divine powers
    of love rather than a beloved figure alone.
- id: motif:7
  label: Naming after transgressive deed and predicted vengeance
  taxonomy_refs:
  - divine_judgment
  basis: Heaven names his sons Titans in reproach for a presumptuous fearful deed
    and says vengeance will come afterward.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:15
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage predicts vengeance but does not narrate the later judgment
    within this excerpt.
- id: motif:8
  label: Union of primordial pairs producing cosmic beings
  taxonomy_refs:
  - sacred_marriage
  basis: Night and Erebus produce Aether and Day, and Earth and Heaven produce many
    divine children through union.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:3
  - ev:4
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The passage uses union and lying together language; 'sacred marriage'
    is a comparative label and may overstate ritual or marital status.
- id: motif:9
  label: Cosmic mountain dwelling of gods
  taxonomy_refs:
  - cosmic_mountain
  - world_center
  basis: Olympus is presented as the dwelling or held peak of the deathless gods and
    the Muses' house.
  evidence_refs:
  - ev:1
  - ev:2
  confidence: medium
  cautions: The excerpt names Olympus as divine dwelling but does not explicitly call
    it a world center.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 104-115
  quote_or_summary: The Muses, children of Zeus dwelling in Olympus, are asked to
    grant song and narrate the origins of gods, earth, rivers, sea, stars, heaven,
    divine honors, and Olympus from the beginning.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:2
  type: quote
  locator: ll. 116-122
  quote_or_summary: '"Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed
    Earth"; Tartarus and Eros are also listed among the first beings.'
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation.
- id: ev:3
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 123-125
  quote_or_summary: From Chaos come Erebus and black Night; Night bears Aether and
    Day after union with Erebus.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 126-138
  quote_or_summary: Earth bears Heaven, Hills, and Pontus; afterward with Heaven she
    bears Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Theia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne,
    Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronos, who hates his father.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 139-146
  quote_or_summary: Earth bears the Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, and Arges; they have
    one eye in the middle of the forehead, give Zeus thunder, and make the thunderbolt.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 147-153
  quote_or_summary: Cottus, Briareos, and Gyes are sons of Earth and Heaven, each
    with one hundred arms and fifty heads, and are terrible in strength.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 154-160
  quote_or_summary: Heaven hides each child in a secret place of Earth and prevents
    them from coming into the light; Earth groans and makes a great sickle from grey
    flint.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 164-166
  quote_or_summary: Earth tells her children that, if they obey, they should punish
    the vile outrage of their father, who first thought of shameful things.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 167-172
  quote_or_summary: The other children are afraid, but Cronos answers Earth that he
    will undertake the deed and does not revere their father of evil name.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 173-175
  quote_or_summary: Earth rejoices, hides Cronos in ambush, puts the jagged sickle
    in his hands, and reveals the whole plot.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 176-182
  quote_or_summary: Heaven comes at night longing for love and spreads over Earth;
    Cronos stretches from ambush and cuts off his father's members with the jagged
    sickle.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 183-187
  quote_or_summary: Earth receives the bloody drops from Heaven; with the seasons
    she bears the Erinyes, Giants with armor and spears, and Melian nymphs.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 188-200
  quote_or_summary: The severed members are cast into the surging sea; white foam
    spreads around the immortal flesh, a maiden grows in it, reaches Cythera and Cyprus,
    and comes forth as Aphrodite.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 201-206
  quote_or_summary: Eros and Desire accompany Aphrodite at her birth and into the
    gods' assembly; her portion includes maidens' whisperings, smiles, deceits, sweet
    delight, love, and graciousness.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
  type: summary
  locator: ll. 207-210
  quote_or_summary: Heaven calls his sons Titans in reproach, saying they strained
    presumptuously in a fearful deed and that vengeance would come afterward.
  source_text_path: texts/public-domain/greek/project-gutenberg/hesiod-homeric-hymns-homerica.md
  rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
  extraction: high
  motif_candidates: medium
  comparison_claims: uncertain
  notes: The narrative content is explicit, but motif taxonomy mappings are interpretive
    and should be reviewed. No comparison claims were made because the passage does
    not itself compare this material with another tradition or text.
reviewer_status:
  status: needs_review
  reviewer: ''
  reviewed_at: ''
  notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
  Only the supplied passage and metadata were used. Footnote numbers embedded in the source excerpt were not treated as separate evidence.
  batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
  custom_id=motif_extract:greek-hesiod-homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-gutenberg__l2556-l2655
  passage_sha256=624465c00b9fd90d73c40d53ef60934e699d0e380fb8fdb094598a8792ce302a