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The daughters of Atlas are immortalized as stars in the cluster known as:
Which one is the god of the sea?
Zeus is the god of:
_____ is the food and drink of the gods.
Which of these mythological Greek creatures has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a horse?
Who is the goddess of love?
Where do the gods go home after a busy day?
What is the female create in the form of a bird with human face?
Who is famous for being killed by a wound to his heel in the Trojan War?
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The foundations of Greek mythology are the gods and goddesses and their mythical history. The stories found in Greek mythology are colorful, allegorical and include moral lessons for those who want them and puzzles to be analyzed for those who do not want them. These include deep human truths and the basics of Western culture.
This Introduction to Greek Mythology offers some of these basic features.
Greek gods and goddesses
Greek mythology tells stories about gods and goddesses, other immortals, demigods, monsters or other mythical creatures, extraordinary heroes and some ordinary people.
Some of the gods and goddesses are called Olympians because they ruled the earth from their thrones on Mount Olympus. In Greek mythology there were 12 Olympians, although several had multiple names.
At the beginning…
According to Greek mythology, “in the beginning was Chaos” and nothing more. Chaos was not a god, just like an elemental force, a force made of itself and which is not composed of anything else. It has existed since the beginning of the universe.
The idea of having the principle of Chaos at the beginning of the universe is similar and perhaps a progenitor of the idea of the New Testament which in the beginning was the “Word”.
Other forces or elementary principles emerged from Chaos, such as Love, Earth, and Heaven, and, in a later generation, the Titans.
Titans in Greek mythology
The first few generations of so-called forces in Greek mythology grew progressively more than humans: the Titans were the children of Gaia (Ge “Earth”) and Uranus (“Heaven Ouranos”) – Earth and Heaven, and were based on Mount Othrys Gods and Goddesses Olympians were children born later of a specific pair of titans, making the Olympian gods and goddesses grandchildren of Earth and Heaven.
The Titans and Olympians inevitably came into conflict, called Titanomachia. The ten-year battle of the immortals was won by the Olympians, but the Titans have left a mark on ancient history: the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, Atlas, is a titan.
The origins of the Greek gods
Earth (Gaia) and Heaven (Ouranos / Uranus), which are considered elemental forces, have produced many descendants: monsters with 100 weapons, one-eyed cyclops and titans. The earth was sad because the very fatherless sky did not let their children see the light of day, so it did something about it. She forged a sickle with which her son Cronus flew his father.
The goddess of love Aphrodite rose from the foam of Sky’s genitals. From the blood of Sky dripping on Earth sprang the spirits of Revenge (Erinyes) also known as Furies (and sometimes euphemistically known as “the Good”).
The Greek god Hermes was the great-grandson of the Titans of Heaven (Uranos / Ouranos) and Earth (Gaia), who were both his great-grandparents and great-great-great-grandparents. In Greek mythology, since the gods and goddesses were immortal, there was no limit to the years of birth and so a grandfather could be a parent.
Myths of creation
There are conflicting stories about the beginnings of human life in Greek mythology. In the eighth century BC, the Greek poet Hesiod is credited with writing (or, rather, the first writing) the creation story called Five Ages of Man. This story describes how people have fallen further and further away from an ideal state (such as paradise) and closer and closer to the toil and tribulation of the world in which we live. Mankind was repeatedly created and destroyed in mythological time, perhaps in an effort to correct things – at least for the creative gods who were dissatisfied with their almost divine, almost immortal descendants, who had no reason to worship the gods.
Some of the Greek city-states had their own stories of local origin about creation that belonged only to the people of that location. Women in Athens, for example, are said to have been descended from Pandora.
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