God of the seas.Zeus’s brother.Controlled earthquakes.ARTEMISGoddess of the huntKnown as the “Mistress of Animals”Zeus’s daughterBrought death with her arrowsDEMETERGoddess of the harvest.Worshipped with festivals.Goddess of grain and fertility....
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Only from the fifth century BC do we hear of so-called nekuomanteia, "places of necromancy" or "oracles of death." Usually these cult places were located in caves, which were associated with the entrance of Hades. People visiting these places were supposed to enter the underworld and meet...
The Ancient Greeks used the big three Gods to explain the weather, ocean, and death work. This paper describes the stories of the lesser known gods and goddesses. Dionysus Dionysus is the Greek god of Wine. Dionysus was not a god when he was first created he was a mere mortal demigod ...
The god of light. The god of truth, who can not speak a lie. One of Apollo's more important daily tasks is to harness his chariot with four horses and drive the sun across the sky. He is famous for his oracle at Delphi. People traveled to it from all over the Greek world to ...
In ancient Greek, the term euthanatos meant "easy death". Today euthanasia (安乐死) generally refers to mercy killing, the voluntary (自愿) ending of the life of someone who is terminally ill. Like abortion, euthanasia has become a legal, medical, and moral issue over which opinion is divid...
A well-known Greek myth associated with burials and the afterlife may be just a story, not tied to any religious practice. The myth is that the dead must enter Hades by crossing the River Styx by ferry. The ferryman, a grim figure sometimes used to symbolize death, is named Charon and ...
( Seth ) killed him. Osiris was the God of Death and Seth was Osiris's brother. Anubis had a pet, it’s name was Ammut. It was a hybrid of an alligator, lion, and a hippo. When people tried to get to the underworld Anubis would weigh your heart and if it was as light as a...
Dionysus was the god of wine.He was the son of Zeus by Semele. When his mother was burnt to death in the glory of Zeus .He was still a helpless infant.His father trusted his upbringing to some mountain fairy maidens .They tookthe greatest care of him. Under the tutorship of Silennus...
Hermes was a patron of travellers.His busts and statueswere set up as dividing marks at crossroads or street corners toguide passersby.The Hermes,as these statues were called,were regarded as sacred,and their mutilation was sacrilegiousand punishable by death.The destruction of the numerous Hermes...