...There are many Gods and Goddess according to Greek mythology. However, many of us are unsure about their existence. Some gods were gods of skies, seas and rustic. These gods have powers according to ruling regions. Many god and goddess got their powers from heredity. Same as like, Zeus is one the important Greek mythology figures as the God of skies. Zeus was the God of sky. He was strong and imposing with long oftentimes curly hairs. He was son of Cronus and Rhea and he was the youngest among all his siblings. He had 2 brothers named Poseidon, Hades and 3 sisters named Hestia,Hera,Demeter. He got married to his sister Hera (goddess of marriage) and had fathered plenty of children. He lived on Mount Olympus. His other names were Cronides...
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...A stunningly beautiful girl, Psyche, is born after two older sisters. People throughout the land worship her beauty so deeply that they forget about the goddess Venus. Venus becomes angry that her temples are falling to ruin, so she plots to ruin Psyche. She instructs her son, Cupid, to pierce the girl with an arrow and make her fall in love with the most vile, hideous man alive. But when Cupid sees Psyche in her radiant glory, he shoots himself with the arrow instead. Meanwhile, Psyche and her family become worried that she will never find a husband, for although men admire her beauty, they always seem content to marry someone else. Psyche's father prays to Apollo for help, and Apollo instructs her to go to the top of a hill, where she will marry not a man but a serpent. Psyche bravely follows the instructions and falls asleep on the hill. When she wakes up, she discovers a stunning mansion. Going inside, she relaxes and enjoys fine food and luxurious treatment. At night, in the dark, she meets and falls in love with her husband. She lives happily with him, never seeing him, until one day he tells her that her sisters have been crying for her. She begs to see them, but her husband replies that it would not be wise to do so. Psyche insists that they visit, and when they do, they become extremely jealous of Psyche's beautiful mansion and lush quarters. They deduce that Psyche has never seen her husband, and they convince her that she must sneak a look. Confused and conflicted...
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...Almost a thousand years ago in a city named Apolly there lived a girl named Agaposis. Her name which meant love. She lived with her mom, dad, and her younger brother. She was very happy in her home. What she didn't know was that her life would change forever. At this time the world was drained of love. Aphrodite the goddess of love vowed to fill the world with love. So she had an idea that could instantly fill the world with love. She created the rose, the rose was a very fragile flower. The rose had stupendous powers though. One of its powers were when you picked off a petal and mixed with different ingredients could make a magic love potion. This love potion could be splashed into another person's face and they would fall in love with the next person they see. Another power it had was when given to someone they would instantly fall in love with the gifter....
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...Circe is the goddess of magic and the most similar female to her encountered by Odysseus is Calypso, a nymph. These two goddesses have both had affairs with Odysseus and are similar in that Circe is a beautiful goddess/witch and Calypso is a beautiful goddess/nymph but they contrast in their motives toward and treatment of Odysseus. After Odysseus (following Hermes' advice) initially conquers Circe, she does everything she can to help him. In addition to releasing the spell that turned his men into swine, she shows excellent xenia to Odysseus that his men must talk him into going on with the journey a full year later. Even then, Circe helps the Odysseus and his men with supplies and advice. Calypso holds Odysseus captive for seven years in hopes of marrying him. When he resists and is saved by Hermes under orders from Zeus, Calypso offers him immortality if he will stay. When he declines her offer, Calypso leads Odysseus to believe that letting him go is her idea, "I am all compassion," she says. Athena is a powerful goddess and is often appears in disguise and her intervention is essential to help Odysseus with his journey home. She is similar to Circe as they are both powerful independent goddesses and both help Odysseus get home. Athena intervenes just enough to encourage Odysseus but then she recedes into the background and allows him to make his own way. However, Athena lives on Mount Olympus as she is an important goddess and cannot be overpowered whereas Circe lives...
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...CUPID AND PSYCHE * A king and queen have three daughters. * All three of the girls are attractive, but one of them is absolutely gorgeous – Psyche. * People come from all around just to check out how beautiful Psyche is. * All this adoration of Psyche gets totally out of hand; men start worshiping her as if she were a goddess and ignore the altars of the goddess of love and beauty, Venus (a.k.a. Aphrodite). * Men even start saying that Psyche is more beautiful than Venus. (Uh-oh.) * We bet you can guess who got mad about this. Yup, that's right – Venus. * The goddess of love gets kind of hateful and orders her son, Cupid (a.k.a. Eros), to go and punish Psyche by making her fall in love with the ugliest thing around. * Cupid sneaks into Psyche's bedroom to do his mother's bidding, but, when he sees how beautiful Psyche is, he gets all distracted and pricks himself with his own arrow. * Cupid falls instantly in love with Psyche and leaves without doing what his mother told him to do. * Psyche's life continues on as usual: everybody comes to gawk at how hot she is. * However, since Venus has it in for her, nobody ever falls in love with Psyche. * Psyche's two sisters end up getting married, but Psyche is stuck sitting alone in her room. * Getting worried that they've made some god angry, Psyche's parents decide to go consult the oracle of Apollo about their daughter's future. * The oracle tells them...
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...Narrator2: Chruuee! In fact all of their daughters are attractive, “but” one of them is absolutely gorgeous – Psyche. (Psyche enters the stage) Psyche: Is this gift or a curse? I never wished for this beauty! My only desire is to love and to be loved… (Sigh) Narrator1: People come from all around just to check out how beautiful Psyche is. Narrator2: Men start worshiping her as if she were a goddess and ignore the altars of the goddess of love and beauty, Venus Psyche: (Psyche refuses the gift) I cannot accept this gift because I do not deserve to be worshipped! I am not a goddess! (Higher tone) Narrator1: Men even start saying that Psyche is more beautiful than Venus. (Uh-oh.) Narrator2: We bet you can guess who got mad about this. Yup, that's right – Venus. Venus walking back and forth (worried and mad), holding an apple Venus: The goddess of love? This is so humiliating! Deserting my temples for a mere human! (Cupid playing with his arrows) Cupid: Are you alright mother? Venus: How can I be fine when this mortal princess is addressed as if she was I? Narrator1: The goddess of love gets kind of hateful and orders her son, Cupid to go. Narrator2: and yes, to punish Psyche by making her fall in love with the ugliest thing around. Cupid: There’s no problem in that… so where is this lady you are talking about? (Venus pointed at Psyche) Venus: She is Psyche… Then, I’ll...
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...THE MYTH OF PSYCHE (excerpted from http://www.mythicjourneys.org/newsletter_jul05_transitions_bolen.html ) As most of you know, psyche is the Greek word for soul. It's also the Greek word for butterfly. If you have a protagonist in a story whose name is Psyche, you might expect that she will go through a major transition and crisis. Will she survive it? Will she come through and be transformed, or will she die? That's one way of looking at the Psyche myth. Those of you who heard Robert Bly's White Bear story on the first day of this conference heard a variation of the Eros and Psyche myth. The form that Psyche broke was the understanding with her unseen lover who came every night. The piece of the story I want to focus on is what happens in an unconscious relationship when it is broken. Psyche was the third most beautiful princess. She was considered so beautiful that she was worshipped rather than sought as a partner. Her father the king seeks to know whether his beloved daughter Psyche will ever find a husband. He goes to the Oracle at Delphi. You know, if you go ask the Delphic Oracle for advice, you are bound to fulfill the advice, so be careful. Don't ask for the advice unless you are prepared to really do what you are told to do. The Oracle tells the king that he must abandon his daughter on a mountain top to meet her fate — an inhuman bridegroom. And so, with death is the beginning of the next stage, Psyche is dressed as for a funeral. All the people of the kingdom grieve...
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...Aphrodite: Goddess of Love Aphrodite was a very popular goddess for many reasons. Aphrodite was the Greek goddess of love, beauty, eternal youth and sexual rapture. Aphrodite was one of the twelve main gods/goddesses on Mt. Olympus. She was the best goddess compared to the others when it came to the opposite sex. Aphrodite was seen as a Goddess who had one purpose and her purpose was to make love. Her purpose was also her gift and was so special that no one seemed to resent it. While many other gods and goddesses were busy with their numerous divine duties, the goddess Aphrodite’s only duty was to bring love into the world. It’s evident that many women were very envious of Aphrodite’s abounding beauty and her easy-going life, but none were resentful. She was seen as friendly, kind and even...
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...Assignment 2: Goddess Essay Hera Adam Smith 24th April 2012 Hera is undoubtedly one of the most complex goddesses portrayed throughout history. Unlike many other goddesses who have kept relatively stable images, Hera has been tossed out and about being perceived on entirely different ends of the spectrum as both the Great Mother Goddess and the nagging and jealous wife of Zeus. She is the perfect example of a matriarchal deity that was taken over and transformed by patriarchal culture. It was in “Old” Ancient Greece that Hera was the primary divinity of a matriarchal culture, until the “New” Ancient Greece was founded by the Indo-European Hellenes from the north. It was the Mediterranean pre-Hellenic Greeks that worshiped Hera, and their culture was based around women (Morgan, 2006). Hera was portrayed in the three stages that women experience: the maiden (youth without children or responsibility), the mother (women with children and families in the prime of their lives), and the crone (past mothers who live for themselves once again). There was actually a competitive festival that happened every four years (like a sort of female Olympics) in which women of all ages were divided into three age groups (representing the three stages of Hera) and participated in 160-yard races, bare-breasted and with their hair unbound. There were three winners (one for each age/life stage category) and each winner had the honour of placing a statuette of herself in Hera’s shrine, received...
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...Artemis plays an important role in Greek Mythology and thus has multiple names given to her. The name Artemis does not have a certain meaning but one theory suggests that it means quail referring to a version of her birth in which her father, Zeus, turned her mother, Leto, into said bird (“Greek Mythology” 129-130). Another theory proposes that Artemis is “she who heals sickness” because of a link between an “adjective meaning ‘safe and sound’” (“Greek Mythology” 129-130). Additional names for Artemis is Diana, her Roman equivalent, and Phoebe which means “the ‘light one’ or ‘bright one’” (Turnbull “The Greek Goddess Artemis”). Despite Artemis having numerous titles and meanings, she is still uniquely known. There are many peculiar Greek...
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...Daughter of Zeus the mightiest God of all and Metis the Goddess of Prudence which also one out of seven Zeus’s wives. Athena's birth "is a desperate theological expedient to rid her of matriarchal conditions" says J. E. Harrison. However, no matter what the legend is, she never has a ‘real’ mother as Metis, her mom, was cursed by her dad Zeus and turned Metis onto a fly and swallowed her when she was pregnant. Although Athena’s nascency sound unreal for todays society, the legend stated that after Zeus swallowed his own wife, he was extremely plagued by a painful headache and run to Hephaestus (Smith God) and begged him to open his head. Hephaestus did as he was told and out popped Athena, full grown, ready for battle. Athena’s extravagant ability in battling was presumed came from her parent’s myth that ‘if Zeus had a son by Metis this child would be mightier than him’....
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...Dark Goddess Hecate's celebration day is November 16 The Goddess Hecate was a deity of the night, crossroads, life and death. She was called Most Lovely One, the Distant One, Queen of the World of Spirits, goddess of witchcraft. To the Thracians especially, Hecate was goddess of the Moon, the dark hours, and the Underworld. Midwives were connected with her. Some myths say Hecate was the daughter of the Titans Tartaros and Night; other versions say of Perseus and Asteria (Starry-Night), or of Zeus and Hera. We do know her worship did not originate in Greece. One of her sacred animals was the toad, a symbol of conception. She was called the goddess of transformation as she ruled over the various passages of life, and could change forms or ages. Hecate was considered to be the third aspect of the Moon, the Hag or Crone (Carrier of Wisdom).The Greeks called Hecate the Hag of the Dead. (The word "hag" may have come from the Egyptian word "heq", meaning a matriarachal ruler who knew magickal words of power.) An ally of Zeus, she was accompanied by a pack of hounds. An aspect of the Amazon goddess, Hecate's chariot was pulled by dragons. Her symbols were the key and the cauldron. The women who worshipped her often stained their palms and soles with henna. Her festivals were held at night by torchlight. Every year on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf, a mysterious festival was held in her honor....
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...Daughter of Zeus, Athena was born fully grown from her father's forehead. This Greek goddess has no mother, but there are tales that say Zeus may have been with Metis around the time Athena arrived. Athena is the goddess of wisdom and warfare. She is known for her strategic skill in warfare and is known as “companion of heroes” and is the patron goddess of heroic strive (“Athena”). The Athenians considered her their “protector” and in honor of this, they named their city after her; Athens (“Myths”). She is commonly symbolized with an olive tree. Her sacred animals are the snake and owl. Athena is usually described as a rosy cheeked girl with a muscular body (“Athena”). She was one of the three Greek goddesses that remained a virgin (Littleton 171). Athena is one of the only goddesses that shows heroic skill and wisdom and she is one of the most important Greek and Roman goddesses known during this ancient time period....
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...fleeting about and abusing her power to make gods and goddesses fall in love with mortals and then bragging about it, she has become a little bit unpopular. Her tricks become crimes worthy of Zeus’ punishment, and he gives her a taste of her ruses. When she falls for and deceives war hero Anchises, she is no longer able to claim immunity to love between goddess and mortal. Of course, this fall of Aphrodite does not go unnoticed by mythological interpretation, and there is a lot to explore. The story of Aphrodite may fall under many stereotypical interpretations, such as structuralism, social charter, and gender analysis, but she sometimes challenges them just as well. A look at structuralism using motifemes has a curious twist when it comes to the goddess of love. The main example of a motifeme pattern is as follows: the girl leaves home, the girl is secluded, the girl becomes pregnant by a god, she suffers, and finally she is rescued and gives birth to a son. After reading about Aphrodite and Anchises, this pattern is almost familiar, except for one very interesting turn of events— the gender roles are switched. This is where Aphrodite challenges the interpretations of myth just a little. When Aphrodite finds Anchises, he is secluded at home. When he realizes that it was in fact a goddess who he impregnated, he suffered in his panic. Aphrodite calmed his worries, rescuing him, and gives him a son, Aeneas. In this way, her story has followed many other popular ones with...
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...Artemis was born to Zeus and Leto. She is also the twin sister to Apollo. The goddess Artemis represented the Maiden aspect during the waxing moon. with her being the Mother aspect of the Triple goddess we know her influence over agricultural matters longevity, medicine, travel, visions during the new moon. She is known as the virgin huntress, goddess of wild places and wild things, the Huntress, Maiden, Bear Goddess, Moon Goddess, Hunter of Souls, shape-shifter. She had a temper so she was one that you wanted to stay on her good side. Her true love was said to be a mortal shepherd known as Endymion. It is said that she fell in love with him and asked Zeus to give him eternal sleep. During this sleep she came to him and produced 50 daughters who represent the 50 months elapsing between each Olympiad. She was...
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