Masculinity In Krono's Typhoeus

When it comes to the relationships between the sky gods and their wives, the relationships are heavily characterized by their gendered dynamics. The gods typically have aggressive, domineering personalities as a result of their masculinity. The femininity of the wives, however, is shown as more passive, manipulative personalities. For instance, when Gaia decides she cannot suffer her children being enclosed in her any longer, she sends Kronos to castrate Ouranos as a direct destruction of the most obvious part of his masculinity. As a result, when Kronos swallows his children himself, Rhea must use her femininity to dispose of him. She offers a rock to Kronos to swallow, which he accepts, and that shows Kronos does not believe his wife will try to get revenge, perhaps thinking her too passive or meek. Rhea, knowing this is what Kronos believes, uses that as an …show more content…
Typhoeus’s removal of Zeus’s sinews is a reflection of Kronos’s removal of Ouranos’s penis, both representing a destruction of masculinity. Also, the effort Typhoeus goes through to incapacitate Zeus, from a psychoanalytical point of view, could show Typhoeus trying to gain the power he needs to become a separate individual from his mother, Gaia. He has been left in this fight, battling Zeus on his own and lacking protection from his mother, so it is obvious that he would want that power instead of returning to his mother to become one. Of course, during the game, the story is played through Hermes all the way up until the battle with Delphyne, the she-dragon. Delphyne is a representation of Gaia’s destructive sexuality, a monstrous form of femininity. After all, from the moment Gaia first laid with Ouranos, a vicious pattern has emerged with sons crippling their fathers in an attempt to become the most