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Hephaestus Greek God

Hephaestus Greek God

Hephaestus was the god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals and metallurgy and fire. There were numerous celebrations on his honor and he was worshipped in all the manufacturing and industrial centers of Greece and especially Athens. He was the son of Zeus and Hera and his brother was Ares. Hera gave birth to him on her own because she got jealous when Zeus had given birth to Athena who came out of his head. He was very ugly and when he tried to rape the goddess Athena he ejaculated on Gaia who gave birth to a child named Erichthonius who was given to Athena after birth to be raised as her son. Hephaestus was married to Aphrodite, the most beautiful goddess, because of Zeus who wanted her married because he was afraid all the other male gods would quarrel over her for her beauty. She didn't want him so she had other lovers as his brother Ares.

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Ares Greek God

Ares Greek God

In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Olympian god of war, he is more accurately the god of savage war, or bloodlust, or slaughter personified. Among the Greeks Ares was always distrusted and although Ares' half-sister Athena was also considered to be a war deity, Athena's stance was that of strategic warfare while Ares' tended to be the unpredictable violence of war. His birthplace and true home was placed far off, among the barbarous and warlike Thracians, to whom he withdrew after he was discovered on a couch with Aphrodite.


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Hermes Greek God

Hermes Greek God


Hermes is the son of Zeus and Maia who was a nymph, one of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas, taking refuge in a cave of Mount Kyllini in Arcadia. Hermes was born on Mount Kyllini in Arcadia. On his first day he escaped from the blanket that his mother had wrapped around him and went to Thessaly where he stole some cattle from Apollo's herd and hid in a cave where he created his first lyre from a cow' s intestines and a tortoise shell. Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already returned in his mother's blanket so she refused to believe Apollo's accusations. Zeus took the side of Apollo but when Hermes began to play music on the lyre that he had invented, Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre. Hence, Apollo became a master of the lyre and Hermes invented the syrinx, a pipe-instrument which was also acquired by Apollo later on by exchanging it with a caduceus.







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Aphrodite Greek Goddess

Aphrodite Greek Goddess


Aphrodite is the classical Greek goddess of love, lust and beauty. She was born from the foam of the sea near Pafos in Cyprus covering a part of Uranus' body (his testicles) that were cut off by his son Kronos. After the testicles fell in the sea near the island of Kithira they were led by the water to Cyprus and from the foam covering them the most beautiful woman of all made her appearance, the goddess named Aphrodite.
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Athena Greek Goddess

Athena Greek Goddess

 The myth says that Zeus had swallowed his first wife Metis when he found out that she was pregnant. He was afraid that the prophecy of his son taking his throne would come true if the child was a boy. In remorse, he asked another god to split his head from where Athens popped out, a beautiful full-grown daughter, dressed in golden battle armor. She soon became his favorite and the only one of his children that Zeus ever entrusted with his magic shield and the secret of where his lightening bolts were stored. Athena remained his constant ally and fierce protector, promoting his interests, serving as his advisor.

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Artemis Greek goddess

Artemis Greek goddess


Artemis is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. She is the goddess of the hunt and the wild and at some point she replaced Selene, the goddess of the moon. In statues she is shown with deer, bow and arrows usually in a forest setting.

In Ephesus, an ancient Greek city located in the western part of Turkey where she was a principal deity, there is a temple of the goddess which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and probably the best known center of her worship apart from Delos. Many Athenian festivals such as Elaphebolia, Mounichia, Charisteri, Vravronia were organized in her honor.
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Demeter Greek Goddess

Demeter

 

Demeter is the goddess of fertility and agriculture. She taught people how to sow and plough and that is why she was very popular with the rural population. As a fertility goddess she is sometimes identified with Rhea and Gaia. She is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister of Zeus by whom she became the mother of Persephone. When Persephone was abducted by Hades, the lord of the underworld, Demeter wandered around the earth to find her and during that time nothing was growing on earth. Then, Zeus sent Hermes to the underworld to bring Persephone back and Hades agreed but when the girl was leaving the underworld he gave her a pomegranate and when she ate the fruit she was bound to spend a third of the year with her husband in the infernal regions. For that reason, Demeter lets the earth grow only during the summer that her daughter is with her. The dying and blossoming of nature was thus connected to Demeter.
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Poseidon Greek God

Poseidon


In Greek mythology, Poseidon is the god of sea, horses and earthquakes and the brother of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Zeus.

Along with Zeus and Hades they have decided the world in three parts. Poseidon became the ruler of the sea, Zeus ruled the sky and Hades the underworld. The symbols associated with Poseidon include: dolphins, tridents and three-pronged fish spears.

 


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Apollo Greek god

Apollo

 







Apollo was a very handsome Greek god who resembled the Kouros statues, meaning he was athletic, beardless and young. In Greek mythology he was the god of medicine and healing, light, truth, archery and also a bringer of death-dealing plague. He was also the god of music and poetry and the leader of the Muses and director of their choir. Hymns sung to Apollo were called paeans.
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Dionysus Apollo Greek god

Dionysus





 

Dionysus or Dionysos is the Greek god of wine and he represents not only the intoxicating power of wine, but also its social and beneficial influences. He was also known as Bacchus. He is the patron deity of agriculture and the theatre. He was also known as the Liberator, freeing one from one's normal self, by madness, ecstasy, or wine. The divine mission of Dionysus was to mingle the music of the avlos and to bring an end to care and worry.
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Zeus (Greek God)


Zeus





 

The supreme god

Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt which he hurled at whoever displeased him, the eagle, the bull and the oak. Zeus is frequently envisaged by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.
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Hera (Greek Goddess)

Hera





 Hera  goddess of marriage and protector of married women.

Hera was the wife of Zeus who was brought up by the Titans Ocean and Tethys and although she was called "cow-faced" she was truly one of the most beautiful goddesses. Despite her beauty her personality was not very attractive since she was very cruel usually organizing revengeful acts against Zeus' lovers. In one, and only one, myth is shown as a noble and gracious protector of heroes and inspirer of heroic deeds, the Quest of the Golden Fleece.
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