mythology
... punished Hera. She became known as an envious goddess. Poseidon-Neptune was the God of the sea and earth quakes. His mother was Rhea and father Crounus. He had the reputation as being a moody god with an attitude. Poseidon lived in a golden palace under the sea. His Queen was Aphrodite. He gave her a wonderful, lavish throne down under the ocean. He controlled the waves, and how hard he would shake the earth. Thought it did not always show, Poseidon lived a wonderful life. Demeter-Ceres was the lovely goddess of fertile harvest and grain. Her father was Crounus and her mother Rhea. Demeter and her daughter were together all of the time. One day while her daughter, Persephone was alone in a field dancing and picking flowers, Hades rode up on a horse and stole her. She had to marry him and become his queen. Demeter said that she would not do anything and would neglect the fields until she had her daughter back. Without her support the fields would be neglected, the crops would not grow and people would starve. She made a deal with Hades so that Persephone would be let out of the underworld for half of the year to see her mother and the other half would be spent with Hades. When she was in the underworld, there was winter and when 4 she was out of the underworld, there was spring. Persephone would dance around and make wonderful flowers. So Demeter got her wish and the gods and goddesses of Olympus did not starve Hades-Pluto was the evil god of the underworld. He kidnapped the lovely Persophone and forced her down in the underworld to be his Queen. He was not a god that many people loved or enjoyed. He was greatly disliked by everyone but his brother. Zeus, his other brother was Hades number one enemy. Hades represented all that was evil. Athena-Minerva was the goddess of wisdom, arts and literature. Her father was Zeus. Athena was Zeus’ favorite child and was allowed to use his weapons, including his sacred thunderbolts. She enjoyed being in battles. There were three things sacred to Athena: the city of Athens, the olive tree and the owl. She never married by her own choice. Hermes-Mercury was the messenger for the underworld, crooks and robbers. Hermes’ was the son of Zeus and his son was Nymphomania. When the god was born, he was born ready for action. When still a child he stole Apollo’s cows. When Apollo found out, Hermes traded the cows for a lyre. He loved music and action. He was basically an all around sneak. Aphrodite-Venus was the beautiful goddess of love and beauty. She had no parents. One day she arose on a shell looking object from the sea. Many of the gods fell in love with jut the sight of her. Many goddesses were jealous of Aphrodite because she was so 5 beautiful. She had few friends. Zeus fell in love with her and forced her to marry him, even though she was not in love. Apollo-Apollo was the God of war, sun, music, poetry, archery, healing, and prophecy. Apollo’s father was Zeus and his mother was Leto. Apollo had a twin, Artemis. When Apollo was not even a year old, he strangled and killed a snake. He was sturdy and when people were wrong he would make them pay. He was so very tough, but he also possessed an amazing power that would heal. He was a bittersweet god in Olympus. Ares-Mars was the god of war. His loving father was Zeus and his mother was Hera. Ares never really had a good, nice temper. He did not like anyone but Aphrodite. Ares loved and admired her. He was famous for killing and being a mean god. His life motto was if there was no pain there was no gain. This is a bad motto to live by. Artemis-Diana was the goddess of man, hunt and chastity. Her loving parents were Zeus and Leto. Artemis had a twin Apollo. Zeus asked her what gifts she would like and she responded by asking for a bow and arrow for hunting, she asked to stay young forever, and she asked never to have to marry. She was granted all three wishes. She could cause pain with her flaming arrows, but she was also a helper of animals and protector of children. Hephaestus-Vulcan was the god of fire and blacksmiths. He had a loving father, but not so loving mother. When he was born, his mother, Hera, took a look at him and dropped him out of Olympus. He was born with bad luck. After he was out of Olympus, he was secretly living under the sea, making objects of precious gold. When 6 Hera heard that he was doing this, she happily called him back to Olympus. From that time forward, he made beautiful object of gold for the gods and goddesses of Olympus. Hestia-Vesta was the wonderful goddess of the hearth. Her father was Crounus and her mother Rhea. Hestia hardly ever left home. She was a peacemaker and was not only worshiped in Olympus but also on earth. People would put statues of her outside there homes, so that she would protect them. Hestia did not marry by her own decision. Dionysus-Bacchus was the god of wine. He was a troublemaker almost everywhere he went. He made wine and enjoyed it a bit too much. Dionysus was well recognized for killing the lion. Dionysus was known as a very wild and crazy god in Olympus. Many famous stories evolved from the gods and goddesses in Olympus. King Midas and the golden touch is a story that is still referenced today. When King Midas was just a baby, ants carried wheat across his little face. That symbolized that baby Midas was on day going to be very rich. As he grew older, he asked to have a wish granted. The wish was granted and he was given the golden touch. This was considered a silly wish, but was granted by the gods. After his wish was granted, everything he touched turned to gold. He would touch thing after thing and everything became gold. Soon meal time came and he realized he could not eat gold and quickly became concerned that he could not eat. Realizing how silly his whish for a golden touch was, he quickly asked to be normal again. 7 His wish was granted and he was again an average king. So when someone is good at making money over and over again, they are referred to as having “the Midas touch”. Olympus found itself with many heroes. Among them was the famous Hercules. Hercules was given 12 labors by his cousin, Erystheus. Willingly Hercules agreed to do each one. His first labor was to kill a Nemean lion. He sought out the lion and killed him. Labor two was to find, catch and kill a ...