Can someone explain?

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I just found out about Orphic cosmogony, and it completely blew my understanding about Greek mythology. I am so confused. In the Orphic cosmogony version, the creator Phanes, which I understand as the creator. This is completly different from the more known version of Chaos. Sometimes Phanes is said to be the same as Eros, but that doesn’t mak sense either. Also, in the Orphic version Chronos is a primordial god of time and destruction. In another completely different version Chronos is the primordial god of time while Cronos is the titan of time. But Cronos and Chronos is both said to be a titan but the meaning is not the same. Cronos in greek means command, whereas Chronos means time. But Chronos and Cronos is sometimes the same god. OMG MY HEAD HURTS BRUHHH

In another unrelated event. Why is everyone doing sci fi?

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  1. I also have an idea why there are many different versions of various Greek myths – because the people in different areas made up their own versions either by just amending the myth themselves or from external cultural influences which would’ve been different in different parts of the Greek world. They were quite widely scattered across the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas so some communities would have been relatively isolated. Their myths could have quite easily evolved independently of the same myths elsewhere.

    • Yeah so you know, there ARE different versions of Greek Mythology, and Roman mythology is basically Greek Mythology but it changed every name, so don’t freak out if the same thing has different versions.

      • Yeah but the Romans just did small changes to the Greek myths, like renaming everyone, small changes to personality, and adding new gods. Orphic cosmogony version is the opposite. It is basically a entire different myth with some of the same names. How is that still the same myth?