Have you ever heard of Greek mythology? Well if not keep reading and you can find out about some of the more powerful gods, titans, and some of the different creatures. So please keep reading so you can learn all about the Greeks main beliefs!
Some of the more popular people in the Greek myths were all of the gods and goddesses. The three main gods were Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon. One of the most powerful gods was Zeus. Zeus was considered the father of all titans. When Zeus was born his father Cronus wanted to eat him and his brothers. The reason Cronus wanted to eat him because he knew he would be more powerful. His brothers were Hades, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon, and Demeter. Zeus also had many sons and daughters.
Hades deceived Zeus even though he was his brother. Hades is also the keeper of the underworld, where it is believed that all the people who died went there. To get in to the underworld you had to pay the guards at the front a gold coin. So when people died they were buried with a single gold coin under there tongue. The underworld was guarded by a three headed dog named Cerberus. Later in time Heracles captured this three headed dog from the underworld. Hades is known to have been stuck with the god of the underworld because no one else wanted it.
Poseidon was also a famous god. He was the ruler of the sea. He was also a brother of Zeus. He had a dragon that protected him. He caused many earthquakes. Another god is the Greek god Ares. He was the god of war. His symbol is a vulture and a dog. But Ares was usually with other gods when he fought in battle. Ares is also known to be very evil! I don’t think we have talked about any goddesses.
Aphrodite was the goddess of love. Many Greek gods loved her. Like Zeus and Poseidon got in a fight about her but there wives said no. She was evil and born from the foam of a sea. The last god that we are going to talk about is Hermes! Hermes was a messenger for some of his life. He was also a person who escorted people down to the underworld. Later in his life he built a little workshop on Mount Olympus. While he was in this workshop he invented the alphabet, astronomy, and scales. That is all of the gods and goddess that we are going to talk about.
Next were going to talk about the Titans. The most powerful was Cronus. Gave birth to Zeus. He wanted to eat him. But Rhea saved Zeus and took him to Krete. Cronus also caused a 10 year war. He is the father of all Titans and gave birth to every god. He ruled all of the Cosmos. He controlled most all of the Cyclopes. Next was a very strong Titan. Most of you probably already know a little bit about this Titan because he has been in a movie! Heracles was a big strong Titan. During his life he fought and killed many strong and powerful creatures. During the twelve labors he had to perform after he killed his two kids he also fought many beasts. One of these was when he went down to Hades (underworld) to capture the three headed dog Cerberus. When he got to the gates he was not dead and he did not pay any fine to get to the front gates, and somehow he still got threw and killed and brought back Cerberus.
A really cool one was Uranus. He was the Sky Titan. People say that the sky was made of brass. His wife was Gaia and they had 18 kids. One day his blood drenched the city and flooded it. Our last Titan is Hesiod. Hesiod was an oral poet. He was one of the twelve titans that there was in Greek mythology. He was a awesome writer in Greece. When he was young he also worked as a Sheppard in the mountains. During his life he lived in a small town called Ascra. Mostly during his life he was a writer.
I hoped you enjoy the Titans but now were going to do creatures. You have probably heard of a Kraken. They are very powerful sea creatures. Poseidon controlled most of them. Next we’ll do a centaur. You will know what a centaur looks like if you have seen any of the Narnia movies. They are half horse, and half man. They have the head, torso, and arms of a man, but the rest of there body is horse. In Greek history the centaurs had war with the Lapiths. The war was lost and the centaurs had to leave the area. The centaurs were known to be very wild.
A really interesting creature was a Minotaur. They have a head of a bull and the body of a man. It was born by Queen Pasiphae to stay in Krete. But then there came many more. Probably the worst and most terrifying was Cerberus. Cerberus was a three headed dog that guarded the entrance to the underworld. It was said that Cerberus has three heads, a dragon’s tail, and has snakes growing on his back. His parents were Echidna, a serpent, and Typhon, who was a fire breathing giant! A really cool creature was the Dragon. There is very many of them but the one were going to do is the Ethiopian Dragon. The Ethiopian Dragon was always sent by Posiedon. One day Poseidon sent it to go kill Queen Cassiopeia. But Peruses on his way back from killing Medusa. He saw that Poseidon was going to kill her. He stopped him and the Dragon too.
Are last creature is the famous Cyclopes. The Cyclopes was basically a man as big as a human with one eye right in the middle of there forehead. They mostly were good for causing destruction. In Greek mythology there were three main Cyclopes: Bronte’s, Argues, and Steropes. These monsters were very skilled blacksmiths! The even created Zeus’s thunderbolts! That is what some of the creatures in Greek mythology were like!
I hoped you enjoyed our Greek Mythology info. To all you authors out there maybe you’ll make this into a book. I know we are true Greek Mythology Gods when it comes to telling about this stuff. That’s all for today. Bye.