Twelve gods and goddesses are usually considered the "Olympians." But many stories vary as to who they are. Some, like Zeus and Athena, are always included, but Dionysis and Dememter may or may not be. Who are they really?
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DEMETER IS THE SISTER OF ZEUS, which makes her one of the Elder Gods. She's quite an important one too because she controls the seasons and harvest and she's also an Earth Mother type of Goddess.\n\nDIONYSIUS is teh party-animal of the bunch. He's god of wine and is said to wallow in the merry-making that wine usually causes. He has followers called Maenads, female worshippers who literally go insane because of his posession.\n\nThw two are more or less connected since they both rule over fruits of the earth. Theyre not very visible on the Olympian scene though because they mainly keep to themselves and do not meddle with other god's business (except on that Demeter's-daughter-kidnapped-and-raped-by-Hades fiasco).\n\nAlthough in fairness to them, they have a fairly large and loyal following among the greeks because of their agricultural natures. If you think about it, they are the two gods who REALLy affect the livelihood of the people. I mean, bread and wine? you cant get more basic than that right??
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Do you mean the King of Ithaca?  As in Homer's Odessey, Odysseus, and the Trojan War?  I've never seen a movie about Odysseus with a character by the name of DIMIDIOCE.  Sorry.
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whoa, I gotta think way back to answer this. Without looking anything up, I just remember that the Pantheon was a large domed building that honored each of the Gods of Roman Mythology by depicting them in big ovals all around the inside ceiling of the building. I think there was something about their placement, like Zeus & Hera were positioned in the middle with his next god of choice to his right & left and ...cannot remember all the significance. Wish I could remember more. Good luck!
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The tradition of Witchcraft I practice (NROOGD) use the Greek and Celtic pantheon of deities.  However for our rituals we invoke the triple goddes, and the dual aspect god.  The Main dieties being from the legend of Hades and Persephone.  We perform the Eleusinian Mysteries every year.  Here are two good websites for more info. The Hermetical library is a great source of information on many different pagan paths.  If you have adobe acrobat reader you can download the texts for free.  If you don't have the reader they have a link so you can download that program also.
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Aker is an earth god who presided over the borders of the underworld.\nAmun is associated with the primordial air.\nKuk is associated with the primordial concept of darkness.\nAtum is the primal creator, associated with the sun.\nBabi is a baboon god.\nNun (also spelt Naunet or Nu) was the deification of the primordial water abyss.\n\nAnat is a war goddess.\nHathor is the personifaction of the Milky Way, often depicted as a cow.\nIsis is most famous for being the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus.\nNeith is a goddess of hunt and war.\nNut is the personification of night.\nAnd Ptah isn't a goddess at all, but the first god.\n\nSo the answer to 1 is Nun and the answer to 2 is either Anat or Neith.  But I would have to lean more towards Anat, as Neith is also considered a goddess of weaving.\nHope this answers your question!
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There are no definite facts as to who invented the games.  One story goes that the Ancient games were nothing more than the funeral rites to the dead king Pelops.\n\nAnother says that the games originated when Hercules won a foot-race at Olympia, and then gave the order that the same race take place every four years.  This is an interesting story, as Pausanias says that initially the only event was a race.\n\nAs for the number of competetors...I don't think there was a limit.  The only limits imposed were that the athlete had to speak Greek, was 'young' and had been training for 10 months.
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It is 7 for me. Like the days of the week.  \nIn greek mythology, 7 is connected with goddess' Athena's  birth from Zeus' head.\nIn my reality, the 7th day is Sunday and it is lucky because it is day off for me!\n\nKaterina
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I've mixed and matched. The Greek pantheon, the Celts and a few here and there that I've learned about. I think it's a matter of the subject - a God/Goddess will speak/reach out to you depending on what you are going through.\n\nOr you can be reading about many different Gods/Godesses and suddenly you are drawn to one even though it may be different from the pantheons you usually work with.\n\nI don't think it's a matter of who believe in as much as it matters that you believe.
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Actually there are Greeks that still worship the Gods of the old religion( including Poseidon!)! Check the following sites!
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A question without name-calling!  I love it!\nSeth was one of the seven archons in the gnostic system.\nIt is also a name for Set, of the Egyptian mythos.\nSeth was also the name of the third son of Adam and Eve mentioned by name, for Adam "a son in his likeness and form" (Genesis 5:3). Seth was given by God in place of the murdered Abel. He had a son Enos at age 105 (Genesis 5:6) and lived 912 years (Genesis 5:8).\n\n\nI love questions like this and am happy to help anyone on mythology questions in mythology.
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Almighty God is not a polytheistic triad of gods, but a single person.\n\n(Deuteronomy 6:4) Jehovah our God is one Jehovah\n\n(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) There is no God but one. For even though there are those who are called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him
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``  its on posiedon the greek god of i forget        \n\n\n      I have always wanted to learn about Greek mythology and I finally got to look it\n          up. I researched Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea. When he and his brothers over\n          threw there father, they each got a share of land which is how Poseidon became the god\n          of the sea because he got the sea. Many sailors worshipped him because they relied on\n          him for a safe trip while sailing. Poseidon was greedy and had a quarrelsome person-\n    b    ality. His roman name was Neptune and his weapon was a triton. Amphitrite, the Greek g\n          goddess of love and beauty, was his wife but he loved Demeter, the Greek goddess of  \n          agriculture. To impress Demeter, Poseidon created the most beautiful animal, the horse.\n          He failed many times before he finally created it but by the time he had, he no longer \n          loved Demeter. That is what I learned about the Greek god of the sea, Poseidon.
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"Neptune makes them (Jupiter & Venus)coerce" sounds strange at glance, becuase "The Great One" like Mighty God (the all-seeing one), is generally regarded as Jupiter (Zeus in ancient Greek name), greatest god in the world among Olympia's 12 gods, Roman myths.\n\nBut you know, Neptune (Poseidon)and Jupiter are both brothers, sons of Saturnus (Kronos), who was confined into the Dark becuase of he tried killing all children for fear of lost his kingdom.\n\nLike you see, to consider about this point you'll read the stanza as conflict between two powers before domination by one rule, as if actually Roman Empire's against lots of kings (as barbarians).\n\nAfter all, three worlds were divined by 3 gods, and thing not clear to me is why Venus is there.\n\nNeptune got the oceans, which means he lost. And in this stanza he was discribed as just having threatened them like extreme howling dog.\n"Waw! Only one can role with my wower (power)!".\nAnd then his strik called to get power from the dark, I means "time" only evil Kronos could rule.\n\nThis is such quatrain discription.\nHe got his power when he locked out his father.\n\nYou will still keep one key terms, except Venus staring in. Number 3, of "clock strikes three" shows you important visiual metapher to understand it.\nWhat do you think about it? I'll give you a hint.\nHe has a spear, called "trident", three pronged spear, just like a fork. 3, tres, triple, trois... in that time of Roman Christian Charch, 3 means holly number, 7 as well, came from his spear, and turned into the number of judgement later, but you know originally it was used as number of Satan on the other hand. That is to say the history was written by terminating another history, in Roman myths you will find brilient re-construction to take other gods into own story as new god, or latter pushed away as diablos. Its quatrain was based on the real aspect around 4C telling about early Myths, when Roman Empire was almost collapsed.\nI think Venus's miscast also depends on such confusion, or where it come from?. What's the correct source?
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Aphrodite - goddess of beauty, one of the twelve Olympians \nApollo - god of poetry, music, the sun, an Olympian \nAres - god of war, an Olympian \nArtemis - goddess of the hunt, later also goddess of moon, an Olympian \nAthena - goddess of wisdom, defensive war, Athens, an Olympian \nKronos - (Cronus/Cronos) god of time, father of the first six Olympians, a Titan \nDemeter - goddess of the harvest, nature, often considered an Olympian \nDionysus - god of wine, took Hestia's place as an Olympian \nEris - goddess of discord \nEros - god of love (Cupid) \nEos - goddess of the dawn \nGaia - primordial goddess of earth, mother of the Titans \nHades - god of the underworld, often considered an Olympian \nHebe - wife of Heracles \nHekate - goddess of witchcraft, crossroads \nHelios - god who drives of the sun \nHephaestus - god of smiths, an Olympian \nHera - chief goddess, goddess of marriage, an Olympian \nHeracles-porter of Olympus \nHermes - messenger of the gods, an Olympian \nHestia - goddess of the hearth, gave up seat at Olympus to Dionysus \nPan - god of shepherds and forests \nPersephone - daughter of Demeter, queen of the dead \nPoseidon - god of the sea, an Olympian \nRhea - mother of the first six Olympians, a Titan \nSelene - goddess who drives the moon \nThanatos - god of death \nUranus - primordial god of the heavens, father of the Titans \nZeus - god of sky and air, chief Olympian \n\nGreek or traditional demigods\nAchilles \nAeacus \nAeneas \nAlexander the Great \nAmphion \nArcas \nBritomartis \nClymene \nDardanus \nThe Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeuces \nEpaphus \nHarmonia \nHelen \nHeracles (also known by the Roman spelling, Hercules) \nIapetus \nIasion \nLacedaemon \nMinos \nMemnon \nPerseus (mythology) \nRhadamanthus \nSarpedon \nTheseus \nTityas
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I believe there is a Goddess and a God. Everything in nature requires balance, so why would the same not be true of God?\n\nPlus, in the OT, when God talks about himself, the original Hebrew text actually in the female form, not male.
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Atlas is a Greek God. A link follows.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_%28mythology%29\n\nHope this helps.
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I think that yes in time the religions of this society will be considered mythology.I do find it kind of strange that we refer to old religions as mythology. Maybe it's because we think we've disproved them as true. Won't that kick us in the butt when we find out that ours isn't the truth huh?