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| Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) |
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| Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) |
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| Neolithic (New Stone Age) |
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8,500-3,000 BC
Jericho- stone fortifications, skull (ancestor) worship
Catalhoyuk- bull shrines, fresco paintings |
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3,000-2,000 BC
Sumerians, Egyptians, Cycladic Islanders |
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2,000-1,600 BC
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| everything has a soul or spirit |
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| The worship of multiple gods |
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| taking the form of an animal |
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| taking the form of a human |
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| asexual reproduction, virgin bearing a baby |
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| having a difference or deviation |
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| the attempt of reconcile disparate or contrary beliefs |
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| a person or thing typifying a certain quality or idea |
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| myths that attempt to explain something |
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| one of the earliest forms of written expression |
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| a component of a personal name based on the name of one's father, grandfather or an even earlier male ancestor |
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| creation of the gods myth |
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| 9 of them and they are the daughters of Mnemosyne and Zeus |
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| the beginning of everything |
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goddess of the earth
gave birth to titans
gave birth to Uranus and Pontus |
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| Holds everything together, god of love |
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| also known as Erotes- winged god of love |
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"upper sky" in Ovid's metamorphosis
stars |
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god of the sky
son of Gaia (Earth) |
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-Oceanus
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-Kronos=Saturn
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Brontes "Thunder"
Steropes "Lightning"
Arges "Flasher" |
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| 3 children born of Gaia and Ouranos with 100 arms and 50 heads |
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born from Uranus's genitals, chopped off by Kronos
goddess of love and beauty |
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born from the blood of Uranus's genitalia
female deities of vengeance or supernatural personifications |
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god of the Sea
mated with Gaia at some point |
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fates
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-are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world
children of night |
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| latin word for scull of an ox |
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spirit of delusion, folly, infatuation
daughter of Eris (Discord) |
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spirit of divine retribution
-child of Night |
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sea nymphs, friendly toward sailors fighting perilous storms
daughters of nereus and doris |
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| 3000 daughters of Ocean and Tethys |
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| marine goddess who personified the dangers of the sea |
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| personification of the rainbow and messenger gods |
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| was the serpent-like dragon that twined round the tree in the Garden of the Hesperides and guarded the golden apples. He was overcome and slain by Heracles. |
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| the Greek god of the cold north wind and the bringer of winter. His name meant "North Wind" or "Devouring One". Boreas is depicted as being very strong, with a violent temper to match |
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| he Greek god of the west wind. The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the fructifying wind, the messenger of spring |
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| god of sky and thunder, ruler of all the gods, lives at mount olympus |
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| a river which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld (Hades). It circles Hades nine times. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron and Cocytus all converge at the center of Hades on a great marsh. |
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a goddess who personified triumph throughout the ages of the ancient Greek culture. |
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a mountain range on the east of the island of Crete in the prefecture of Lassithi
According to the Greek Mythology, Zeus was reared on this mountain in a cave called Dicteo Andro |
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| Two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida in Greek mythology, equally named "Mount of the Goddess." Both are associated with the Mother Goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth |
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| the ten-year[1] series of battles fought between the two races of deities long before the existence of mankind: the Titans, fighting from Mount Othrys, or Mount Etna and the Olympians, who would come to reign on Mount Olympus. This Titanomachia is also known as the Battle of the Titans, Battle of Gods, or just the Titan War. |
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| Omphalos (literally, "navel") is a sacred oval or hemispherical stone in Delphi. There it was situated in the center of the temple of Apollo (currently a museum). To the ancient Greeks this stone was the center, the 'navel', of the earth. According to legend, Zeus determined the spot by sending forth two eagles simultaneously to fly from the eastern and western ends of the earth, and they met at Delphi. |
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| Delphi was the shrine of Apollo and site of the famous Oracle, whose often inscrutable advice was sought down through historical times |
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| mountain of barren limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi |
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| Author of Folklore in the old testament: Studies in comparative religion, legend, and law |
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| fertility goddess, also represents type of mother nature |
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| can refer to any god and even to human officials; in some texts it is used as a substitute for Hadad, a god of the rain, thunder, fertility and agriculture, and the lord of Heaven. |
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| the sea, personified as a goddess,[2] and a monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.[3] In the Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation, she gives birth to the first generation of gods; |
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| god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. |
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Son of Ea
double godhead
head of the gods
he had four eyes and four ears |
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| he Hurriane god of sky and storm. He was derived from the Hattian Taru and was cognate to the Hittite Tarhun (Luwian Tarhunt). |
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| was a Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia, and father (by an Oceanid named Clymene or Asia) of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Menoetius and through Prometheus, Epimetheus and Atlas an ancestor of the human race. |
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| 1) the gift of fire to mankind and (2) being chained to a rock where every day an eagle came to eat his liver. There is a connection, however, and one that shows why Prometheus, the father of the Greek Noah, was called the benefactor of mankind. |
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| hindsight", literally "hind-thought," but in the manner of a fool looking behind, while running forward) was the brother of Prometheus ("foresight", literally "fore-thought"), a pair of Titans who "acted as representatives of mankind" |
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| the primordial Titan who supported the heavens. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the Oceanid Asia |
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| said to be out beyond the western headland where the immortal giant (atlas) holds up the heavens by means of a pillar on his back. |
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literally, "all" "gifts"
Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents.
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Deucalion was to build an ark and provision it carefully (no animals are rescued in this version of the Flood myth), so that when the waters receded after nine days, he and his wife Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, were the one surviving pair of humans.
was a son of Prometheus and Pronoia. When the anger of Zeus was ignited against the hubris of the Pelasgians, Zeus decided to put an end to the Bronze Age with the Deluge. |
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the daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora and wife of Deucalion.
When Zeus decided to end the Bronze Age with the great deluge, Deucalion and his wife, Pyrrha, were the only survivors. |
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| Where Deucalion and Pyrrha landed after the flood |
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| was the mythological patriarch of the Hellenes, the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus |
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| some of the first developed forms of script |
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| he illegitimate child of Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus and wife of Xuthus. Creusa conceived Ion with Apollo then she abandoned the child. Apollo asked Hermes to take Ion from his cradle. Ion was saved (and raised) by a priestess of the Delphic Oracle. |
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| Built arc in old testament to withstand the flood |
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| another son of noah, cursed by him for telling his brothers that their father was drunk and naked |
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| the protégé of the god Ea, by whose connivance he survives the flood, with his family and with 'the seed of all living creatures'. Afterwards he is taken by the gods to live for ever at 'the mouth of the rivers' and given the epithet 'Faraway'. His name means "he found life" (i.e. immortality) |
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