HOW THE WORLD WAS CREATED…ACCORDING TO GREEK …



HOW THE WORLD WAS CREATED…ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY!!

OUT OF CHAOS(CONFUSION)[pic]

EMERGED 2 BEING

GAEA URANUS

MOTHER EARTH HEAVENS

WHOSE CHILDREN WERE [pic]

12 TITANS

INCLDUING THESE 8

OCENAUS TETHYS HYPERION THEA RHEA THEMIS MNEMOSYNE CRONUS

RULED THE SEA SUN MOON GREAT LAW& MEMORY YOUNG

MOTHER justice strong

and monsters

hecatonchires-hundred hands

3 cyclopes-one-eyed

The story:

Uranus hated all of his children…but particualry the monsters..and he sent he sent them to TARTARUS (the underworld)

Gaea asked the Titans to rescue the monsters…but only Cronus agreed to help…. AND HE OVERTHREW HIS FATHER…

FROM URANUS’ BLOOD CAME GIANTS AND ERINYES

FURIES

MORE LIKE MEN THAN GODS

WITH HAIR OF

WRITHING SERPENTS

FIERECE FIGHTERS THEY WERE WINGED

ALL OF THIS LED TO….

RULER CRONUS AND RHEA GET MARRIED

OF EARTH

HAVE 6 CHILDREN

3 DAUGHTERS 3 SONS

HESTIA DEMETER HERA HADES POSEIDON ZEUS

YES…THERE IS STILL MORE TO THIS….

CRONUS FEARED HIS KIDS WOULD DESTROY HIM **REMEMBER** HE OVERTHREW HIS FATHER** SO….CRONUS SWALLOWED ALL OF HIS KIDS….EXCEPT….ZEUS..WHO ESCAPES!!

WHEN ZEUS GREW UP, HE AND RHEA WAGES WAR ON CRORNUS….

A LONG BATTLE[pic]…….CRONUS DISGORGED HIS KIDS.

THE MONSTERS HELPED ZEUS AND GAVE HIMS WEAPONS….CRONUS WAS ASISTED BY SOME OF THE TITANS…THEN DEFEATED…..

HADES- IN CHARGE OF THE UNDERWOLRD

POSEIDON- IN CHARGE OF OCEANS, HORSES AND EARTHQUAKES

ZEUS-IN CHARGE OF GODS AND MEN FROM MT. OLYMPUS

HESTIA- GODDESS OF HEARTH AND HOME

DEMETER- GODDESS OF AGRICULTURE

HERA-GUARDIAN OVER MARRIAGE

MEANWHILE….THERE ARE 4 AGES OF MAN THAT WILL PASS BY…

1. “GOLDEN AGE”- UNDER CRONUS THERE WAS A GRADEN OF EDEN EXISITENCE…ETERNAL SPRING, NO WORK, MEN HAPPY AND GOOD, NO FIGHTING, NO POVERTY.

2. “SILVER AGE”- UNDER ZEUS WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE “FALL” SEASONS…..MAKING WORK NECESSARY, HUNGER AND COLD, SHELTERS NEEDED, MEN COURAGEOUS, BUT OVERBEARING.

3. “BRONZE AGE”-MEN LEARN TO USE ARMS AND GO TO WAR..

4. “IRON AGE” – PERIOD OF CRIME AND DISHONOR, GIFTS OF GODS ABUSED, MAN SINKS INTO DEGRADATION.

ZEUS- HAD 12 WIVES

MAIA, ALCMENE, THEMIS, LETO, DEMETER, MNEMOSYNE, EURYNOME, SEMELE, DIONE, HERA, EUROPA, METIS

(ONE WAS IS SISTER AND ANOTHER, HIS AUNT)

THEY ALL LIVE ON MT. OLYMPUS….10 00 FEET BETWEEN MACEDONIA AND THESSALY..ITS TOP IS ALWAYS COVERED IN SNOW… [pic]

THE WIVES AND THEIR KIDS… [pic]

MAIA-MOTHER OF HERMES( GOD’S MESSANGER)

ALCMENE-MOTHER OF HERCALES, THE HERO

LETO-MOHTER OF APOLLO(GOD OF SUN, SONG, MUSIC) AND ARTEMIS(GODDESS OF THE MOON, HEALING)

DEMETER- MOTHER OF PERSEPONE (GODDESS OF SPRINGTIME)

MNEMOSYNE-MOTHER OF THE MUSES- (9)

1.CLIO-HISTORY 2. EUTERPE-LYRIC POETRY, MUSIC 3. THALIA-COMEDY 4.MELPOMENE-TRAGEDY 5.TERPSICHORE-DANCING AND CHOURS 6.POLYHYMNIA-RELIGIOUS POETRY 7.ERATO-LOVE POETRY 8. URANIA-ASTRONOMY 9. CALLIOPE-EPIC POETRY

SEMELE-MOTHER OF DIONYSUS(GOD OF WINE, FERTILITY, DRAMA)

DIONE-MOTHER OF APRHORODITE(GODDESS OF BEAUTY)…SHE THEN IS THE MOTHER OF EROS(GOD OF LOVE)

HERA- MOTHER OF HEBE(GODDESS OF YOUTH) ARES(GOD OF WAR) ILITHYIA, HEPHAESTUS(IN CHARGE OF FIRE)

METIS-MOTHER OF ATHENA(GODDESS OF WISDOM, PATRONESS OF FINE ARTS, BORN FROM ZEUS’ HEAD)

ZEUS, HEPHAESTUS, ARTEMIS, HERMES, APHRODITE, DEMETER, HERA, ATHENA, ARES, APOLLO, HESTIA, POSEIDON, HADES

THEIR MENU: NECTAR AND AMBROSIA [pic]

OTHERS WHO ARE IMPORTANT!!!

SCYLLA- MONSTER WHO EATS SAILORS [pic]

CHARYBDIS-MONSTER WHO SWALLOWS THE SEA

SIRENS- HALF BIRD, HALF WOMAN WHO LURES SAILORS TO THEIR DEATH

NIKE- GODDESS OF VICTORY

AEOLUS-KING OF THE FOUR WINDS

HADES-RULER OF THE UNDERWORLD

HECATE-QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD

CERBERUS-3 HEADED DOG TO KEEP PEOPLE IN THE UNDERWORLD

**MYTHS MAY BE RACIAL, TRIBAL OR LOCAL..BUT STILL SHOW SIMILARITES…MANY DEAL WITH THE SAME TOPICS…CRETION FO THE WORLD

BEGININGS OF MAN

MAN’S SINFUL STATE

MAN’S GLORIES\

ROMAN GODS AND GREEK GODS ARE THE SAME, JUST HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES!!

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