For the lovers of Greek Mythology, briefly discuss and post pictures of some of your favorite god/ goddesses/ humans who hugely impacted and played a huge role in Greek's golden ages.


I'll start with Zeus, the promiscuous ruler of Olympus.

In the Name of Zeus the Supreme Spiritual Force of Creation, BEGIN!!!!

Aphrodite: Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.



Aphrodite is my favorite, the most beautiful woman of all.

I like Odysseus and Artemis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oetQ0PivMws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3NTAmGig0U

Also the oldest of all the Olympians

Birth of Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty & Wisdom..

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Zeus was the youngest son of Cronus and Rhea. As the supreme ruler of Mount Olympus and of the Pantheon of gods who resided there, he upheld law, justice and morals, and this made him the spiritual leader of both gods and men.


HOW HE SURVIVED DEATH FROM HIS FATHER'S HANDS: This mythological tale of Zeus' struggle against the Titans (Titanomachy) had been caused by Cronus, after he had been warned that one of his children would depose him. Cronus knowing the consequences, as he had overthrown his father Uranus. To prevent this from happening Cronus swallowed his newborn children Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon, but his wife Rhea (who was also his sister) and Gaia her mother, wrapped a stone in swaddling clothes in place of the infant Zeus. Cronus thinking it was the newborn baby swallowed the stone. Meanwhile Rhea had her baby taken to Crete, and there, in a cave on Mount Dicte, the divine goat Amaltheia suckled and raised the infant Zeus.

HIS FIRST LOVE LED TO HIS FALL: According to legend, Metis, the goddess of prudence, was the first love of Zeus. At first she tried in vain to escape his advances, but in the end succumbed to his endeavor, and from their union Athena was conceived. Gaia warned Zeus that Metis would bear a daughter, whose son would overthrow him. On hearing this Zeus swallowed Metis, the reason for this was to continue to carry the child through to the birth himself. Hera (his wife and sister) was outraged and very jealous of her husband's affair, also of his ability to give birth without female participation. To spite Zeus she gave birth to Hephaestus parthenogenetically (without being fertilized) and it was Hephaestus who, when the time came, split open the head of Zeus, from which Athena emerged fully armed.


HISTORY OF PROMISCUITY: Zeus had many offspring; his wife Hera bore him Ares, Hephaestus, Hebe and Eileithyia, but Zeus had numerous liaisons with both goddesses and mortals. He either raped them, or used devious means to seduce the unsuspecting maidens. His union with Leto (meaning the hidden one) brought forth the twins Apollo and Artemis. Once again Hera showed her jealousy by forcing Leto to roam the earth in search of a place to give birth, as Hera had stopped her from gaining shelter on terra-firma or at sea. The only place she could go was to the isle of Delos in the middle of the Aegean, the reason being that Delos was, as legend states, a floating island.



BABY MAKING MACHINE: When he seduced the Spartan queen Leda, he transformed himself into a beautiful swan, and from the egg which Leda produced, two sets of twins were born: Castor and Polydeuces and Clytemnestra and Helen of Troy. He visited princess Danae as a shower of gold, and from this union the hero Perseus was born. He abducted the Phoenician princess Europa, disguised as a bull, then carried her on his back to the island of Crete where she bore three sons: Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. Zeus also took as a lover the Trojan prince Ganymede. He was abducted by an eagle sent by Zeus (some legends believe it was Zeus disguised as an eagle). The prince was taken to Mount Olympus, where he became Zeus' cup-bearer. Zeus also used his charm and unprecedented power to seduce those he wanted, so when Zeus promised Semele that he would reveal himself in all his splendor, in order to seduce her, the union produced Dionysus, but she was destroyed when Zeus appeared as thunder and lightening. Themis, the goddess of justice bore the three Horae, goddesses of the seasons to Zeus, and also the three Moirae, known as these Fates. When Zeus had an affair with Mnemosyne, he coupled with her for nine consecutive nights, which produced nine daughters, who became known as the Muses. They entertained their father and the other gods as a celestial choir on Mount Olympus. They became deities of intellectual pursuits. Also the three Charites or Graces were born from Zeus and Eurynome. From all his children Zeus gave man all he needed to live life in an ordered and moral way.

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/z/zeus.html





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@OP, you should have posted this in the Religious Section. .

also considering that place is getting boring as hell, with all those nonsensical posts. .

The most common version of the birth of Aphrodite describes her born in sea-foam from the castrated genitals of the sky-god Ouranos.

"Ouranos (the Sky) came, bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about Gaia (the Earth) spreading himself full upon her. Then the son [Kronos] from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off his own father's members and cast them away to fall behind him . . . and so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden. First she drew near holy Kythera, and from there, afterwards, she came to sea-girt Kypros, and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew up about her beneath her shapely feet. Her gods and men call Aphrodite, and Aphrogeneia (the foam-born) because she grew amid the foam, and well-crowned (eustephanos) Kythereia because she reached Kythera, and Kyprogenes because she was born in billowy Kypros, and Philommedes (Genital-Loving) because sprang from the members. And with her went Eros (Love), and comely Himeros (Desire) followed her at her birth at the first and as she went into the assembly of the gods. This honour she has from the beginning, and this is the portion allotted to her amongst men and undying gods,--the whisperings of maidens and smiles and deceits with sweet delight and love and graciousness."


http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/AphroditeMyths.html

PAGAN 9JA:
@OP, you should have posted this in the Religious Section. .

also considering that place is getting boring as hell, with all those nonsensical posts. .

LOL I want this to be cultural, I don't want any religious strain on it.
Right now, I'm trying to be open-minded about several cultural beliefs without the influence of several religious claims and disclaims.

LONG STORY SHORT: I don't want any Christian or Muslim having sleepless nights.

Ileke-IdI:


LOL I want this to be cultural, I don't want any religious strain on it.
Right now, I'm trying to be open-minded about several cultural beliefs without the influence of several religious claims and disclaims.

LONG STORY SHORT: I don't want any Christian or Muslim having sleepless nights.

ah k. i see. its kool.

will see to those brats. .

THE GIGANTES:




THE GIGANTES were a tribe of one hundred Giants born of Gaia the Earth. Some say their father was Tartaros the hell pit, others that they were born from the blood of the castrated Ouranos (Heaven).

At the instigation of Gaia they made war on the gods but were destroyed in the ensuing battle with the help of Herakles. The most famous of the combatants were Enkelados who was burried beneath the island of Sicily by Athena, Polybotes who was crushed beneath the rock of Nisyros by Poseidon, and Porphyrion who was slain by Zeus and Herakles when he attempted to violate Hera.

The Gigantes were depicted as either hoplite warriors dressed in armour and wielding spears or as primitives wearing panther skins armed with rocks and flaming torches. In sculpture and mosaic they were usually shown with the tails of serpents for legs.

http://www.theoi.com/Gigante/Gigantes.html

^^^

Rgp92: The most common version of the birth of Aphrodite describes her born in sea-foam from the castrated genitals of the sky-god Ouranos.

"Ouranos (the Sky) came, bringing on night and longing for love, and he lay about Gaia (the Earth) spreading himself full upon her. Then the son [Kronos] from his ambush stretched forth his left hand and in his right took the great long sickle with jagged teeth, and swiftly lopped off his own father's members and cast them away to fall behind him . . . and so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden. First she drew near holy Kythera, and from there, afterwards, she came to sea-girt Kypros, and came forth an awful and lovely goddess, and grass grew up about her beneath her shapely feet. Her gods and men call Aphrodite, and Aphrogeneia (the foam-born) because she grew amid the foam, and well-crowned (eustephanos) Kythereia because she reached Kythera, and Kyprogenes because she was born in billowy Kypros, and Philommedes (Genital-Loving) because sprang from the members. And with her went Eros (Love), and comely Himeros (Desire) followed her at her birth at the first and as she went into the assembly of the gods. This honour she has from the beginning, and this is the portion allotted to her amongst men and undying gods,--the whisperings of maidens and smiles and deceits with sweet delight and love and graciousness."


http://www.theoi.com/Olympios/AphroditeMyths.html

She has to be my favorite Goddess. There's a debate on whether she bought good or evil to humans.

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Wrath of Aphrodite. . . .


AKMON A Companion of Lord Diomedes of Argos (Southern Greece) who vociferously criticised the punishments metted out by Aphrodite upon his lord. The goddess transformed him into a sheerwater for the lack of respect shown her divinity.

BROTHERS OF HALIA, Six Princes of Rhodes (in the Greek Aegean) who drove Aphrodite away when she tried to land on their island following her sea-birth. The goddess was wrath and inflamed them with unnatural passions. They then committed various sexual crimes, including the rape of their own mother. Poseidon ashamed of his sons, had them buried beneath the island.

Will BRB. . . .

The gods were not always "nice"

These Greco-Romans ([b]Hell[/b]enists) slaughtered our people, plagiarized the Bible and edited various portions of this Book like the deletion of the Names of Olorun and Oyigiyigi and insertion of Zeus (JeZeus/Jesus). How can the love of such a rebellious and [b]Hell[/b]ish/[b]Hell[/b]enist culture of a people who worship Olosi (Lucis) and have been raping and destroying Earth not be insane?

One does not open a greek mythologi without mentioning our gangsta brotha HERACLES aka HERCULES.

THE TWELVE LABORS OF HERACLES

I)NEMEAN LION


THE LEON NEMEIOS (or Nemean lion) was a large lion, whose hide was impervious to weapons, which plagued the district of Nemea in the Argolis. King Eurystheus commanded Herakles to destroy the beast as the first of his twelve Labours.
The hero cornered the lion in its cave and seizing it by the neck wrestled it to death. He then skinned its hide to make a lion-skin cape, one of his most distinctive attributes. Hera afterwards placed the lion amongst the stars as the constellation Leo.

Rgp92: The gods were not always "nice"

i agree. many of them were mischeivious. sometimes even the evil forces (or as you call them "demons" could become good. .

II) LERNAEAN HYDRA


HYDRA LERNAIA was a gigantic, nine-headed water-serpent, which haunted the swamps of Lerna. Herakles was sent to destroy her as one of his twelve labours, but for each of her heads that he decapitated, two more sprang forth. So with the help of Iolaos, he applied burning brands to the severed stumps, cauterizing the wounds and preventing regeneration. In the battle he also crushed a giant crab beneath his heel which had come to assist Hydra. The Hydra and the Crab were afterwards placed amongst the stars by Hera as the Constellations Hydra and Cancer.

lol, there would be a thread for Greek mythology before that of any other foreign group. It's taught in the West and promoted so much because of the racial connection and historical connection (via the Romans) between the Greeks and other Europeans (particularly Western European) and European descended people that promote it.

I suspect that Mayan mythology, Aztec mythology, Egyptian mythology, Chinese, Persian, Indian, Sumerian, Native American etc. mythology will never get their own threads on here.

Anyway, interesting posts so far; do carry on.

I love the Chinese, Persian and Native American history (thanks to my video games) .

If someone doesn't get to them before me, I'll make the their threads. I want to touch up on the egyptian mythology, but black Egypt is just a shame right now.

It's taught in the West and promoted so much because of the racial connection and historical connection (via the Romans) between the Greeks and other Europeans (particularly Western European) and European descended people that promote it.

Huh? First time I'm hearing about this . . . .what kind of racial connection?

HERA

The queen of the Olympian deities. She is a daughter of Cronus and Rhea, and wife and sister of Zeus. Hera was mainly worshipped as a goddess of marriage and birth. It is said that each year Hera's virginity returns by bathing in the well Canathus. The children of Hera and Zeus are the smith-god Hephaestus, the goddess of youth Hebe, and the god of war Ares. According to some sources, however, her children were conceived without the help of a man, either by slapping her hand on the ground or by eating lettuce: thus they were born, not out of love but out of lust and hatred.

Writers represented Hera as constantly being jealous of Zeus's various amorous affairs. She punished her rivals and their children, among both goddesses and mortals, with implacable fury. She placed two serpents in the cradle of Heracles; she had Io guarded by a hundred-eyed giant; she drove the foster-parents of Dionysus mad, and tried to prevent the birth of Apollo and Artemis. Even Zeus usually could not stand up to her. Sometimes when he got angry, he chained her to the mountain of Olympus by fastening anvils to her feet. However, most of the time Zeus resorted to stratagems: he either hid his illegitimate children, or he changed them into animals.







Well of Canathus

PhysicsQED: lol, there would be a thread for Greek mythology before that of any other foreign group. It's taught in the West and promoted so much because of the racial connection and historical connection (via the Romans) between the Greeks and other Europeans (particularly Western European) and European descended people that promote it.

I suspect that Mayan mythology, Aztec mythology, Egyptian mythology, Chinese, Persian, Indian, Sumerian, Native American etc. mythology will never get their own threads on here.

Anyway, interesting posts so far; do carry on.

Egyptian mythology shouldnt even be mentioned on this forum. That topic will just turn into a racial war and the fact that most egyptian hate black folks and are saying that the ancient egypt were white...

Rgp92:

Egyptian mythology shouldnt even be mentioned on this forum. That topic will just turn into a racial war and the fact that most egyptian hate black folks and are saying that the ancient egypt were white...

Thank you!!!!!!!!

Rgp92:

Egyptian mythology shouldnt even be mentioned on this forum. That topic will just turn into a racial war and the fact that most egyptian hate black folks and are saying that the ancient egypt were white...

Noted. But the other examples still stand.

THE GIGANTES

he most famous of the combatants were Enkelados who was burried beneath the island of Sicily by Athena, Polybotes who was crushed beneath the rock of Nisyros by Poseidon, and Porphyrion who was slain by Zeus and Herakles when he attempted to violate Hera.

Wasn't Zeus a lil bit hypocritical here? He destroyed a man for attempting to do to his wife what he has done to so many other women

Athena

Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill. She was the favorite child of Zeus. She had sprung fully grown out of her father's head. She had sprung fully grown out of her father's head. Her mother was Metis, goddess of wisdom and Zeus' first wife. In fear that Metis would bear a son mightier than himself. Zeus swallowed her and she began to make a robe and helmet for her daughter. The hammering of the helmet caused Zeus great pain in the form of headaches and he cried out in agony. Skilled Hephaestus ran to his father and split his skull open and from it emerged Athena, fully grown and wearing her mother's robe and helmet. She is the virgin mother of Erichthnonius.


Athena and her uncle Poseidon were both very fond of a certain city in Greece. Both of them claimed the city and it was decided that the one that could give the finest gift should have it. Leading a procession of citizens, the two gods mounted the Acropolis. Poseidon struck the side of the cliff with his trident and a spring welled up. The people marveled, but the water was as salty as Poseidon's sea and it was not very useful. Athena's gift was an olive tree, which was better because it gave the people food, oil and wood. Athena named her city Athens.

Athena's companion was the goddess of victory, Nike, and her usual attribute is the owl. Athena possessed the Aegis.







Athens