Gods

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Gods Goddesses

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Gaia jee'-uh Terra Mater, Mother Earth

• The oldest of the goddesses
• She is the personification of the "all-mother",
  she who gives and takes life. She sprang from
  Chaos, and in turn bore from herself, Pontus (the
  sea), and Uranus (the sky) and married him. Their
  children are the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the
  Hecatonchires. With Tartarus she is the mother of
  the monster Typhon.

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URANUS yoo-ray'-nuhs Personification of the
sky

• Son and mate of Gaia.
• Their children are the Hecatonchires
  (Centimani), the Cyclopes and the Titans. Uranus
  was jealous of the future power of his children
  and feared he would lose his rulership to them.
  He threw his children in the underworld to
  prevent this. At the instigation of Gaia, her son
  Cronus castrated his father and dethroned him.
  When Uranus' blood fell upon the Earth (Gaia),
  the Erinyes (the goddesses of vengeance) and the
  Gigantes (giants) sprang forth, among many other
  divinities.

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ZEUS Supreme Ruler of Mount Olympus

• Being the supreme ruler he upheld law, justice
  and morals, and this made him the spiritual
  leader of both gods and men. Zeus was a celestial
  god, and originally worshipped as a weather god
  by the Greek tribes.

Source Stephane MallarméLes Dieux Antiques,
nouvelle mythologie illustrée. Paris, 1880.
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HERAQueen of the Olympian Deities.

• She is the eldest daughter of Cronus and Rhea,
  and wife and sister of Zeus. Hera was mainly
  worshipped as a goddess of marriage and birth.

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Bibliography

• Encyclopedia Mythicahttp//www.pantheon.org/mythi
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