Nyx : goddess of the night. Nyx was a sovereign, primordial and cosmogenic entity, respected and feared even by the god Zeus himself. Nymphs - credits: en. In addition to the twelve gods, Greek mythology included many other deities, while other forms of divine origin were worshiped such as the Nymphs, the Nereids, the Satyrs, and the Erinyes. The Nymphs were female figures of divine origin, young in age, living in the wild, wandering in the mountains, accompanying Artemis playing with her.
They were all beautiful. Melies were the first Nymphs created from the blood of Uranus when his son Chronos cut off his genitals and it dripped on the earth.
The Naiads lived in caves. Inside their caves, they flirted with Hermes or the Silinos. The trees that were dedicated to Nymphs and were considered their home, mortals were forbidden to touch them with an ax.
Ivi: the deity of youth and vitality. Daughter of Hera and Zeus. She supplied Nectar and Ambrosia at the banquets of the Olympian gods. When Hercules performed his twelve deeds and was accepted on Olympus as an equal god, Zeus and Hera married him to Ivi, so that they could live and rejoice together forever, aged and untouched by all evil.
Her symbol is the apple. Maia: Mother of the god Hermes. One of the seven daughters of Atlanta and Oceanida-Nymph Pleion. From her came the name of the month of May.
Filyra: the deity of recovery, beautiful perfumes, writing, and elegance. Mother of the wise Centaur Chiron. Uranus fell in love with FiFilyralira for her beauty and met her in the form of a horse to avoid the attention of his wife Rhea. She gave her name to the plant of the same name. As their name suggests, the Olympian gods used to live in the gorges of Mount Olympus, where their palaces are located.
The Pantheon -today's Mytikas- was their meeting point, while the throne of Zeus -today's Stefani-, used to host exclusively the leader of the gods, Zeus. Olympus is the second highest mountain in the Balkans and dominates the borders of Macedonia and Thessaly with high peaks and deep ravines, while in it was declared a National Park. Gaia -Earth- was born from chaos and from the Gaia the mountains, the sea, and then Uranus with the sun, the moon, and the stars. Then, Uranus and the Gaia came together and gave birth to the Titans.
But Uranus was afraid that one of his children would take his throne. That is why he encaptured everyone in the depths of the Earth. However, his son, Saturn, the strongest of the Titans, defeated him and he became the ruler of the whole world. But Saturn was also afraid that one of his children would take his throne. That's why when they were born, he swallowed them. Desperate, Rhea went and gave birth to her sixth child, Zeus, in a cave on a mountain in Crete.
He hid the child there and gave Saturn to swallow a disguised stone. When Zeus grew up, he fought Saturn and forced him to take out his five swallowed brothers. A war began between the Titans and the gods. The war lasted 10 years. Zeus with the help of three giants who each had hands, won and became the ruler of the world. This battle is known as the Battle of the Titans. After the Battle of Titans, the world was divided into three parts, between the three brothers, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades or Pluto.
Zeus took the sky, Poseidon the sea, and Hades the underworld. The Land and Mount Olympus were not given to anyone. Zeus was the most powerful of the gods, and so his brothers, sisters, and children took different positions on Olympus. The most powerful of all, Zeus was the god of the sky and the king of Mount Olympus. All of the Olympian gods were extremely famous amongst ancient Greeks, however, Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, and Poseidon were the ones that were the most popular ones.
They were respected and feared the most, and can be found in most Greek myths. The Olympian gods - credits: drivethruhistoryadventures. Oh, but they never did! With the advent of Christianity, the twelve Olympian gods lost their power. Through the preaching of Apostle Paul in Pnyx, the erroneous conception of the ancient Greeks about their relationship with God got reconstructed, since now something extremely important was "reported", which impressed the Athenians: God was not an image of man, but, on the contrary, the man was an image of God.
Regardless of the modern religions around the world, all you have to do to bring the Olympian gods back to life is close your eyes and imagine them standing on the top of mount Olympus. Ancient Greek Religion played a major role in ancient Greece and continues to be important today in the cultural heritage of the Greeks as it shaped their mythology and the view and approach of their world.
Ancient civilizations developed greatly because of the Olympian gods. People began to build temples, statues, murals in honor of the gods, some of which survive to this day.
All these compose the Greek identity that has become famous across the world. Table of Contents 1. How many olympian gods are there? The Olympian Gods and Goddesses 3. No one-word answers. Use full sentences to explain your thinking. No comments will show until approved by editors. Reading level: green. Her symbols include the peacock and the cow. See also: A Heavenly Marriage? Hera and Zeus. Poseidon was god of the sea.
He was the most powerful god except for his brother, Zeus. He lived in a beautiful palace under the sea and caused earthquakes when he was in a temper. His symbols include the horse and the trident a three-pronged pitchfork.
The sea god features prominently in stories about the Trojan War, due to a grudge he bore against the former king Laomedon of Troy.
He is the father of Polyphemus, the cyclops in the Odyssey, and of the demigod Triton. Hades was the god of the underworld and king of the dead.
His name is often used interchangeably as that of the Greek underworld. He was the brother of Zeus and the husband of Persephone , Demeter 's daughter, whom he kidnapped.
Aphrodite was the goddess of love and beauty, and the protector of sailors. She may have been the daughter of Zeus and the Titan Dione, or she may have risen from the sea on a shell. Her symbols include the myrtle tree and the dove. See also: Aphrodite. Apollo was the god of music and healing. He was also an archer, and hunted with a silver bow. Apollo was the son of Zeus and the Titan Leto , and the twin of Artemis. His symbols include the laurel tree, the crow, and the dolphin.
Apollo is famously the patron of the oracle at Delphi. See also: Night of the Hunters: Artemis and Apollo. Ares was the god of war. He was both cruel and a coward.
Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera, but neither of his parents liked him. His symbols include the vulture and the dog, and he often carried a bloody spear. Zeus may have arranged the marriage to stop the Olympian gods from fighting over her.
However, a popular tale says that Hephaestus trapped his mother in a specially crafted throne in anger for her treatment of him, and only agreed to release her when he was promised the hand of Aphrodite.
She preferred the wild and rough Ares. He placed an invisible web of chains around his bed and trapped Aphrodite and Ares, naked, in the midst of one of their amorous meetings. He summoned the other gods and goddesses, who joined him in mercilessly mocking the ensnared lovers. When they were finally freed, they both fled Olympus in humiliation for a short time. Aphrodite also enjoyed a number of flings with mortal humans, and is perhaps best known for promising the beautiful, already married Queen Helen to the youth Paris and thus kicking off the legendary Trojan War.
Ares was the god of war, but in direct contrast to his sister, Athena. Where Athena oversaw strategy, tactics, and defensive warfare, Ares reveled in the violence and bloodshed that war produced. His aggressive nature and quick temper made him unpopular with the other Olympians, with the exception of Aphrodite, and he was equally disliked among mortals. His cult of worship was far smaller than other gods and goddesses, though he was quite admired by the war-like Spartans of southern Greece.
Despite his association with war, he is often described as a coward, running back to Olympus in a sullen fury every time he received the slightest wound. Hermes had a very diverse collection of skills, as the god of trade, eloquence, wealth, luck, sleep, thieves, travel, and animal-raising. He is also always characterized as mischievous. He was constantly in search of fun and entertainment. As the messenger of the gods, Hermes ran many errands, including killing the monster Argos to release Io, rescuing Ares from his imprisonment by giants, and talking Calypso into freeing Odysseus and his men from her clutches.
It was also his duty to escort souls into the underworld. As the god of wine, wine-making, merriment, theater, and ritual madness, Dionysus was an easy favorite among Olympians and mortals alike. Dionysus was the son of Zeus and Semele, the princess of Thrace, whom Hera tricked into asking to see Zeus in all his glory. Semele could not survive the revelation, but Zeus saved her unborn child by sewing him into his thigh. Dionysus was born from that thigh some months later and raised by the nymphs of Nysa.
He was the only Olympian to be born of a mortal mother, and perhaps that was part of the reason why he spent so much time among mortal men, travelling widely and gifting them with wine. So, who were those deities and why are they not considered Olympians? Hestia was the final sister of Zeus, but she is often excluded from the official pantheon of twelve Olympians.
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