Friday 26 September 2014
smite
Mythology has recently been included in this cool new game:
keep in mind some content may seem too violent, to anyone young.
video taken from this source:
https://www.youtube.com/user/smitegame
Heroes
Mythological heroes:
Achilles:
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Achilles was born n Fthia as the son of Peleus,the king of Fthia, and the sea goddess Thetis. Achilles was passionate and very brave but was very easily made angry and was inclined to be stubborn about his decisions. During the Trojan war, Agamemnon said that Achilles was best described as a soldier who fights simply for the sport of it. The main strength of Achilles was that his mother had attempted to make him immortal by holding him in the river Styx this made him invulnerable. But his mother forgot to dip in his heel as well so he was kept mortal in that one spot, the problem was that this was the reason of his death, by a poisoned arrow that caused him to die of poisoning.
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Achilles was born n Fthia as the son of Peleus,the king of Fthia, and the sea goddess Thetis. Achilles was passionate and very brave but was very easily made angry and was inclined to be stubborn about his decisions. During the Trojan war, Agamemnon said that Achilles was best described as a soldier who fights simply for the sport of it. The main strength of Achilles was that his mother had attempted to make him immortal by holding him in the river Styx this made him invulnerable. But his mother forgot to dip in his heel as well so he was kept mortal in that one spot, the problem was that this was the reason of his death, by a poisoned arrow that caused him to die of poisoning.
Perseus:
Heracles:
Heracles:
Monday 22 September 2014
Areas
Origins of mythology:
Areas myths originate from: lots of different area's mostly Greece and Rome
And areas of Southern Europe that were Nordic. Places known today as Denmark Finland Sweden and Iceland. Greek mythology is seen as the stem of a lot of ancient myths. Some also say that roman mythology originated from Greek mythology as most of the gods share twin like characteristics. Greece's capital was Athens and the roman civilisation's was Rome.
Gods
Mythological gods:
Greek:
Aphrodite:
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goddess of love, desire, beauty and pleasure.
She had many lovers even when married to Hephaestus.
The most known of which being Ares, (god of war)
Adonis ("god" of love ) and Anchises (a prince from Dardania.)
she takes form as a woman and usually appears nude/semi-nude.
her animals are doves and sparrows. Known as Venus in Rome.
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Apollo:
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god of poetry, healing, plague, prophecy, music, art,
knowledge and archery. Artemis ( goddess of the hunt,
wild animals, wilderness, childbirth and virginity) was
his twin. both were depicted as the sun and the moon.
He takes form as a handsome beardless man with long hair
and perfect body structure. His animals were deer, swans,
cicadas, hawks, ravens, crows, foxes, mice and snakes.
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Ares:
information in greater detail and from original source here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures
Thursday 18 September 2014
Bestiary
Bestiary:
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Centaur;
a beast with the torso of a man and the legs and lower body of a horse most of the centaurs are more relatable to the beast of the horse,but Chiron the centaur was different, he was wise and taught a lot of young heroes, most famous of which being Achilles. Chiron was also immortal but Hercules wounded him in a fight. although immortal he still felt terrible pain and later on traded his life for that of Prometheus
Pegasus:
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Chimera:
The result of the mating of Typhoeus and Echidna. The creature had three heads
One of a lion, one of a goat and one of a snake. It had a lion for a front body, a goat
for its middle and a snake for a tail.
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Norse:
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Dain: a deer that lives in Yggdrasil (the tree of life) and eats the leaves.
Fenrir: The father of all wolves and is the son of Loki. has been prophesised that he will kill Odin during the events of ragnarok and in turn will be killed by vioarr.
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World creation
Various mythological stories about the worlds creation:
Greeks:
according to the Greeks the world was originally just chaos and from that came Erebus the placve where death reigns and night. Everything else was pure void.
Then, love was born creating the force of order. Love made light and day, and once there was created.as soon as light and day were created Gaea (the earth) appeared.
Then Erebus slept with the night and made the heavens light and the days night. Then night on its own made Doom, fate, Death, sleep, Dreams, nemesis and others.
Then Gaea gave birth to Uranus the heavens and Uranus became the shell of Gaea and also her mate. they made the three Cyclopes, the three Hecatoncheires and twelve titans. but Uranus was terrible and cruel to his wife and children. He locked the Hecatoncheires in the hidden spots of the earth in Gaea's womb.
this annoyed gaea and she plotted to take care of him. She made a flint sickle and attempted to get her children to attack Uranus. All were terrified of doing so except for Cronus, the youngest of the titans.
original source of information:
http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/The_Creation/the_creation.html
Norse:
Before there was soil or the sky or any living thing, there was only the gaping abyss of Ginnungagap. This chaos of perfect silence and shadow was between the home of fire Muspelheim and the home of frost Niflheim.
frost and fire came closer and closer to each other until they met in ginnungagap. within the hissing and bubbling the fire melted the ice and the melted ice became ymir the first of the giants. ymir was a hermaphrodite and was able to reproduce asexually. When he sweated, more giants were born. while the frost melted more, a cow Audhumbla, emerged from the ice. she provided food for ymir and began to lick at more of the ice.
while doing this she uncovered Buri the first of the Aesir tribe. Buri had a son named Bor who married Bestla, the daughter of the giant Bolthorn. the half god half giant children were Odin (who became chief of the gods) and his brothers Vili and Ve
source of original information:
http://norse-mythology.org/tales/norse-creation-myth/
content is being updated regularly
Greeks:
according to the Greeks the world was originally just chaos and from that came Erebus the placve where death reigns and night. Everything else was pure void.
Then, love was born creating the force of order. Love made light and day, and once there was created.as soon as light and day were created Gaea (the earth) appeared.
Then Erebus slept with the night and made the heavens light and the days night. Then night on its own made Doom, fate, Death, sleep, Dreams, nemesis and others.
Then Gaea gave birth to Uranus the heavens and Uranus became the shell of Gaea and also her mate. they made the three Cyclopes, the three Hecatoncheires and twelve titans. but Uranus was terrible and cruel to his wife and children. He locked the Hecatoncheires in the hidden spots of the earth in Gaea's womb.
this annoyed gaea and she plotted to take care of him. She made a flint sickle and attempted to get her children to attack Uranus. All were terrified of doing so except for Cronus, the youngest of the titans.
original source of information:
http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/The_Creation/the_creation.html
Norse:
Before there was soil or the sky or any living thing, there was only the gaping abyss of Ginnungagap. This chaos of perfect silence and shadow was between the home of fire Muspelheim and the home of frost Niflheim.
frost and fire came closer and closer to each other until they met in ginnungagap. within the hissing and bubbling the fire melted the ice and the melted ice became ymir the first of the giants. ymir was a hermaphrodite and was able to reproduce asexually. When he sweated, more giants were born. while the frost melted more, a cow Audhumbla, emerged from the ice. she provided food for ymir and began to lick at more of the ice.
while doing this she uncovered Buri the first of the Aesir tribe. Buri had a son named Bor who married Bestla, the daughter of the giant Bolthorn. the half god half giant children were Odin (who became chief of the gods) and his brothers Vili and Ve
source of original information:
http://norse-mythology.org/tales/norse-creation-myth/
content is being updated regularly
Friday 12 September 2014
Introduction
Hi I'm Jonathan. This blog is going to contain everything you need to know about Greek mythology and sometimes other legends. I have read a lot about these different tales and such. Mostly from books on the topic, and so have developed an interest in the study.
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