Lab · Experiment 06
Families
of the Gods
Twelve mythologies, twelve family trees. Who descends from whom, who is married to whom – and who can actually do what? Every figure with its own portrait and its power in motion.
Sources: Hesiod's Theogony · Pyramid Texts and the Osiris myth · Snorri's Edda · Virgil, Ovid and Livy · Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata · Shanhaijing, Huainanzi and folk religion · Kojiki and Nihon Shoki · Lebor Gabála Érenn and the Mabinogi · Enūma eliš and the Epic of Gilgameš · Florentine Codex and Leyenda de los Soles · Popol Vuh and Maya codices · Grey, Best, Beckwith and Te Ara. Where sources disagree, we say so. Hinduism, Shintō and Chinese folk religion are living religions, and the cultures of the Nahua, the Maya, the Māori and Hawaiʻi live on today – this presentation follows widely told traditions and makes no claim to be the one correct version.