What is your favorite Greek God/ Goddess?
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I like Ares... in the Illey... He's so brave and fierce...however, he always gets his *** kicked by Athenea... Big time loser
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I've already done this kind of project for myself, so I like to think I know what I'm doing and that I'm correct in my mythology, I love mythology. By the time I'm done, this answer will be quite long and will read both as the social pages and genealogical survey of the Ancient Gods. I have to say, unfortunately, that several of the answers previous to my own are incorrect. Allow me to offer the proper "translations" for you and I hope you find them helpful.\n\nSun = In some myths, Helios is the sun itself, Apollo is the god of the sun, drawing the sun behind his chariot across the Daytime sky. (Oddly enough, Apollo is both Greek and Roman)\n\nMercury = Hermes, the male messenger of the gods. His counterpart, Hebe, a daughter of Zeus and Hera, served as female messenger, cupbearer, or handmaiden to Hera, depending on the myth.\nMercury has no known satelites.\n\nVenus = Aphrodite, the goddess of love.\nVenus has no satelites.\n\nEarth = Gaia, the original mother; a Titan goddess.\nEarth's satelite = The Moon: In some myths, Selene is the moon itself, and sister to Helios. The twin sister of Apollo, Artemis, is the goddess of the moon, and draws the moon behind her chariot across the Nighttime sky. (Artemis is called Diana in Roman myths)\n\nMars = Ares, the god of war. \nMars's satelites = Phobos and Deimos: sons by Aphrodite are Fear and Panic.\n\nJupiter = Zeus, seemingly god of most everything else that isn't designated to another deity.\nJupiter's satelites = Metis, goddess of Wisdom, mother of Athena; Adrastea, goddess of reward, punishment and divine retribution, daughter of Ananke; Amalthea, in some myths, the nymph or her goat who nursed the infant Zeus; Thebe, a nymph; Io, a mortal maiden; Europa, a mortal princess, the mother of Minos; Ganymede, a mortal boy, whom Zeus incorporated as male cupbearer to the gods; Callisto, a maid attending Artemis, the mother of Arcas. Through circumstances, Callisto and Arcas were transformed into the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor; Leda, the mortal mother of 2 sets of twins...by Zeus, Pollux and Helen (of Troy), by her husband, Castor and Clytemnestra. Castor and Pollux are the constellation Gemini; Himalia, a nymph; Lysithea, daughter of Oceanus; Elara, the mother of a giant; Ananke, goddess of Destiny, mother of Adrastea and the Fates; Carme, goddess of grain, mother of Britomartis; Pasiphae, the wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur; Sinope, a mortal woman.\n\nSaturn = Cronos, the god of agriculture, father of Zeus (along with Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Poseidon).\nSaturn's satelites = Pan, a faun (part human, part goat) god of the woods; Atlas, a Titan, who bears the heavens on his shoulder, brother to Prometheus and Epimetheus; Prometheus, the one who brought fire to mankind, and paid for it; Pandora, the one who opened her infamous Box, wife to Epimetheus; Epimetheus, mythologically, he made the animals of the world, a task so wonderful his brother Prometheus tried to beat his efforts; Janus, the god of gates and doorways, with a face pointing in 2 directions; Mimas, a Titan slain by Heracles*; Enceladus, a Titan supposedly buried under Mt. Etna; Tethys, a Titan goddess of the Sea; Telesto, a sea nymph, daughter of Tethys; Calypso, goddess of Silence, Dione, depending on the myth, she and Zeus are the parents of Aphrodite (in other myths, Aphrodite was born of the foam of the sea where it churned the dismembered parts of Uranus); Helene, an Amazon; Rhea, wife of Saturn, mother of Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon, and Zeus; Titan, giant children of Gaia and Uranus; Hyperion, a Titan, father of Helios and Selene; Iapetus, a Titan, father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas; Phoebe, grandmother to Apollo and Artemis.\n\nUranus = Ouranos, god of the heavens.\nUranus's satelites (don't seem to be steeping in mythological context, but in Shakespeare) = Cordelia, "King Lear"; Ophelia, "Ham
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In Greek mythology, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture. According to Hesiod, she was born when Uranus (the father of the gods) was castrated by his son Cronus. Cronus threw the severed genitals into the ocean which began to churn and foam about them. From the aphros ("sea foam") arose Aphrodite, and the sea carried her to either Cyprus or Cythera. Hence she is often referred to as Kypris and Cytherea. Homer calls her a daughter of Zeus and Dione. \nAfter her birth, Zeus was afraid that the gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in marriage so he married her off to the smith god Hephaestus, the steadiest of the gods. He could hardly believe his good luck and used all his skills to make the most lavish jewels for her. He made her a girdle of finely wrought gold and wove magic into the filigree work. That was not very wise of him, for when she wore her magic girdle no one could resist her, and she was all too irresistible already. She loved gaiety and glamour and was not at all pleased at being the wife of sooty, hard-working Hephaestus. \n\nAphrodite loved and was loved by many gods and mortals. Among her mortal lovers, the most famous was perhaps Adonis. Some of her sons are Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios and Aeneas (with her Trojan lover Anchises). She is accompanied by the Graces. \n\nHer festival is the Aphrodisiac which was celebrated in various centers of Greece and especially in Athens and Corinth. Her priestesses were not prostitutes but women who represented the goddess and sexual intercourse with them was considered just one of the methods of worship. Aphrodite was originally an old-Asian goddess, similar to the Mesopotamian Ishtar and the Syro-Palestinian goddess Ashtart. Her attributes are a.o. the dolphin, the dove, the swan, the pomegranate and the lime tree. \n\nIn Roman mythology Venus is the goddess of love and beauty.
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I like Greek mythology better than any other.  Every character seems to come alive.  Every story fits in with the world as it is.  It is not really about, say, how spiders came to be, or why there are echoes, it really is a guide to life and how to live it.  Oh, and by the way, the boulder guy's name was Sisyphus.
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Poseidon - The God of Earthquakes.\nHe is most like my husband.:)
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Hermes Trismegistus\n\nmore info here:\n\nhttp://www.hermetics.org/home.html
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Zeus was God of Gods, i think
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Love and Beauty. Aphrodite is the greek name for venus
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Zeus\n \nSupreme Greek god and head of the Greek pantheon. In addition Zeus functioned as a sky god or weather god, and as a god of justice and freedom. Son of the Titans Kronos and Rhea. Consort of Hera. His cult probably dates back to the Mycenean and Minoan civilizations. According to Homer, he lived on Mt. Olympus in Thessaly, where he gathered the other gods under his dominion.After his birth, Rhea saved the infant Zeus from being swallowed by Kronos along with his siblings by substituting a stone dressed in swaddling cloths. She then hid the child in a cave on the island of Crete, where the Kouretes performed a dance in which they clashed their weapons about him in order to drown out his cries. His nurse while in Crete was Amalthea, either a nymph or a goat. Upon reaching maturity, Zeus overthrew the Titans and forced Kronos to disgorge his siblings. Zeus then cast Kronos into Tartaros and established himself as head of a new pantheon in which he and his siblings had the most prominent roles. He divided dominion over the world with his brothers Poseidon and Hades.Zeus's sexual prowess was legendary, and he either seduced or forced himself upon numerous goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women,fathering countless children in the process. He assumed many different forms in pursuit of his numerous affairs. He appeared to Leda in the form of a swan, to Danae as a shower of gold, and to Europa as a white bull. Ares, Eleithyia and Hephaistos were the most prominent of his children by his official consort Hera, whom he originally seduced in the form of a cuckoo (although some sources say that it was Hera who seduced Zeus). He fathered Apollo and Artemis by Leto, Persephone by Demeter, Hermes by Maia,Dionysos by Semele, the Horai and Moirai by Themis, the Muses by Mnemosyne, and Herakles by Alkmene. Athena was also said to have been born from his forehead after he had swallowed Metis. Zeus may also have had a homosexual relationship with Ganymede, whom he made the cupbearer of the gods. The cult of Zeus was of universal significance in the Greek world, although his cult was often secondary in individual locations to the local tutelary deity, such as Athena in Athens. Greek households typically had statues of Zeus in their forecourts,and he was often associated with mountaintop shrines. He had temples in every Greek city, two of the more notable being iAthens and at Olympia. His most important festival was at Olympia. The oracle at Dodona in Epirus was dedicated to Zeus. He was depicted as a bearded and physically imposing man of middle age. His most common attributes were the thunderbolt and the eagle.\nAnd finally because so many asked, here is what we think is a complete list of the women he seduced or rape as required to satisfy his lust. Remember there were some men too, but why put them in a list of women? \n\nZephyros\n \nGreek god of the west wind. Son of Astraios and Eos. Believed to live in a cave in Thrace. Known to the Romans as Favonius. \n\nTyche\n\nGreek goddess of fate and fortune. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Okeanos and Tethys. In Pindar, Zeus is given as her father. She was often associated with Agathos Daimon, the "Good Spirit", and with Nemesis, the goddess of justice and vengeance. Tyche was depicted with a rudder or a cornucopia, and often with a wheel as a symbol of the transitory nature of fortune and of the fickle character of the goddess herself. She had a temple at Argos, where the first set of dice were said to have been invented. Her temple at Antioch remained intact at least until the reign of the Roman Emperor Theodosius (AD 379-95). \n\nTriton \n\nMinor Greek sea god. He was depicted as a merman, with the upper body of a man and the tail of a dolphin or a fish. Son of Poseidon and Amphitrite. According to Hesiod, he lived with his parents in a golden palace at the bottom of the sea. The Greeks often thought of there being many Tritons rather than just one. His attribute wa
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In Greek mythology, Eros was the primordial god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His name is the root of words such as erotic. His Roman equivalent was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". He was often associated with Aphrodite. Like Dionysus, he was sometimes referred to as Eleutherios, "the liberator".\n\nAccording to tradition, Eros was principally the patron of male love, while Aphrodite ruled mens' love of women. Thus his statue could be found in the palaestras, one of the principal venues for men to associate with their beloveds, and it was to him that the Spartans sacrificed before battle. Meleager records this role in a poem preserved in the Greek Anthology: "The Cyprian queen, a woman, hurls the fire that maddens men for females; but Erôs himself sways the love of males for males\nThroughout Greek thought, there appear to be two sides to the conception of Eros; in the first, he is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the first-born Light that is responsible for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos. In Hesiod's Theogony, the most famous Greek creation myth, Eros sprang forth from the primordial Chaos together with Gaia, the Earth, and Tartarus, the underworld; according to Aristophanes' play The Birds, he burgeons forth from an egg laid by Night conceived with Darkness. In the Eleusinian Mysteries, he was worshipped as Protogonus, the first-born.\n\nAlternately, later in antiquity, Eros was the son of Aphrodite and either Ares or Hephaestus, or of Porus and Penia, or sometimes of Iris and Zephyrus; this Eros was an attendant to Aphrodite, harnessing the primordial force of love and directing it into mortals, an apt role for the issue of a union between "Love" and either "War" or "Fire." In some myths, he is portrayed as being playful, frequently causing trouble for gods and mortals; in others, he is mindful of the power he wields, sometimes refusing the entreaties of his mother and other gods to interfere in the course of some mortals' lives. In some versions he had brothers named Anteros, the embodiment of unrequited love, and Himerus.\n\nIn art, Eros was usually depicted as a nude winged boy or infant (although this is associated more with Cupid from Roman religion; to the Greeks he was a young man or a teenager), with his bow and arrows in hand. He had two kinds of arrows: one was golden with dove feathers that caused instant love; the other was lead with owl feathers that caused indifference. The poet Sappho described him as "bittersweet" and "cruel" to his victims; he was also unscrupulous, mischievous and charismatic. In his ancient identification with Protogones and Phanes he was adorned represented as a bull, a serpent, a lion, and with the heads of a ram. He is occasionally shown blind or blindfolded.\n\nWorship of Eros was uncommon in early Greece, but eventually became widespread. He was fervently worshipped by a fertility cult in Thespiae, and played an important role in the Eleusinian Mysteries. In Athens, he shared a very popular cult with Aphrodite, and the fourth day of every month was sacred to him.\n\n[edit]\nMyths associated with Eros\nEros, angry at Apollo for making fun of his archery skills, caused him to fall in love with the nymph Daphne, daughter of Ladon, who had scorned him. Daphne prayed to the river god Peneus to help her and was changed into a laurel tree, which became sacred to Apollo.\n\nThe story of Cupid and Psyche has a longstanding tradition as a folktale of the ancient Greco-Roman world long before it was put to print; first seen Apuleius' Latin novel, The Golden Ass, this is apparent and an interesting intermingling of character roles. The novel itself is picture-esque Roman style, yet Psyche and Aphrodite retain their
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You can use the name "Athena", the Greek God of Wisdom.\n\nOr the name "Sophia", the Roman God of Wisdom.
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You make your goddess happy!
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My favorite God is one God who makes Him/Herself known to me in so many ways.  So it is strange for me to say, "My favorite god is...." because to do so, I'd be denying these other manifestations of God which are equally important.\n\nBut you know, I have found Ganesha to be perhaps the most accessible form of God.  How odd that the most fantastical-looking manifestation of God seems to me the most real of all!  But see, it makes sense because Ganesha is the one who guards the door.  (Schneb, are you listening?!)  We greet him first.  He is somewhat of an intermediary, if you wish to call him that.  And he removes the obstacles that would come in our way of getting to know God in more of his fullness.\n\nI love Sri Krishna.  I love His words He spoke in the Bhagavad Gita.  \nI love Saraswati Ma, because she is the Goddess of wisdom and learning.  And I am a life-long student.  \nI love Lakshmi because she is our mother, and as a mother she loves us and intercedes on our behalf to our father, Vishnu.\n\nAs for a Saint, well I love Meera Bai.
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i am greek, 23, female!
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My lady's favorite is the Triceratops.  We do not know it's geneus and species name.\n\nMy favorite are the raptors... specifically velociraptors.  That's the family name.  We also do not it's genus or species name.
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Yes in the Goddesses and Gods I believe in.
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Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.\n\nHer children were: \n(deities) Charites, Hymenaios, Priapus, Eros, Anteros, Hymenaios, Phobos and Aeneas, Deimos, Eunomia, Hermaphroditus, Peitho, Rhodos, Tyche, Harmonia\n\n(mortal) - Eryx, Aeneas