| Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
|---|---|---|
| God name "Scamander" | Greek | An Oceanid, son of Oceåñuś and Tethys and the god of the river Scamander, in Troas, was called by the gods Xanthus. Being insulted by Achilles, he entered into a contest with the Greek hero but Hera sent out Hephaestus to åśśist Achilles, and the god of fire dried up the waters of Scamander, and frightened Scamander, until Hera ordered Hephaestus to spare the river-god. By Idaea, he fathered Teucrus.(Theogony 345.) Greek |
| God name "Sebitti" | Mesopotamian / Babylonian - Akkadian | Group of minor war gods. The children of the god ANU who follow the war god ERRA into battle. They are, in alternative traditions, of good or evil influence. In Greek tradition they become the Pleiades.... |
| Goddess name "Styx" | Greek | Chthonic underworld goddess. A daughter of OKEANOS and TETHYS, and mother of NIKE. The deity of the river Styx beside which the gods swear their oaths.... |
| God name "Thaon" | Greek | One of the giants who made war with the gods. He was killed by the Parc?. Greek |
| Deities name "Titan" | Greek | A race of gods. The secondary group of deities in the pre-Hellenic pantheon, headed by the sky god OURANOS and the earth mother GAIA. They have six pairs of children: OKEANOS and TETHYS, KRONOS and RHEA, HYPERION and THEA, Koeos and Phoebe, IAPETOS and Klymene, Kreos and Eurybe. According to legend the children usurped their father but were eventually beaten by ZEUS, heading the major group of the pantheon, who hurled them into the abyss of Tartaros.... |
| God name "Venti" | Greek | The winds. They appear personified even in the Homeric poems, but at the same time they are conceived as ordinary phenomena of nature. The master and ruler of all the winds is Aeolus, but the other gods also, especially Zeus, exercise a power over them. Greek |
| God name "Zeus" | Greek | The god of the sky & ruler of the Olympian gods |
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This is where you can find out more about culture of ancient Greece, about gods ancient Greeks believed in, about powers those gods were managed and about origin of each god. There were times when there was no The One God and people believed in a number of gods they have created themselves. Each god has his peculiar abilities and powers and each god managed one or another power of nature. Existence of goods is typical for every nation at those times when paganism was typical for every single culture.
Ancient Greeks were not an exception from the rule. There was a number of gods and ancient Greeks passionately believed in those gods. There were temples built in honor of each of gods and there were ceremonies of donating for those gods. The donating was performed in order to please a god and make it kinder towards people. Donating was also a way to ask something from god, something like protection, blessing, help or else. There were gods of winds, gods of water, and gods of fecundity and so on and so forth.
In case if people had some problems they went to a temple and performed their donating for god in order to receive his kindness and help. It was common that people recognized troubles in their lives like wrath of gods. In that case they also made their donating asking a god for forgiveness and protection. Fancy that there were biography created for each god people believed in. they were not just some supernatural powers, they were like people – with their own characters and fortunes.
It is rather interesting to find out more about it as it is a great period of history. In those myths about gods and heroes the mood of century is reflected. Each god is an embodiment of some features and powers. So, people provided each god with some abilities that were peculiar only for that god. They also provided every god with peculiar position in their hierarchy. The entire life and being of ancient people were developed around those gods and their actions. So, there is no way for us to forget about it as it is a significant period of our history, history of humanity.
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