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GREEK GODS, olympic gods - Coggle Diagram
GREEK GODS
titans
THE TITANES (Titans)
- Six elder gods
- Led by Kronos
RHEIA (Rhea)
- Titanis (Titaness) mother of the gods
- goddess of female fertility
Primordal Gods
OKEANOS (Oceanus)
- primordial Titan god of the great
- & the god of the river
ANANKE
- the primordial goddess (protogenos) of necessity
- In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation
sky gods
THE ANEMOI
- the gods of the four winds
- The female counterparts of the Anemoi were the Aellai Harpyiai (Harpies).
APHRODITE
APHRODITE
- the Olympian goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and procreation.
- She was depicted as a beautiful woman
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Underworld Gods
KERBEROS (Cerberus)
- the gigantic, three-headed hound of Haides
- he guarded the gates of the underworld and prevented the escape of the shades of the dead.
HEKATE (Hecate)
- the goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy.
- She was the only child of the Titanes Perses and Asteria
Rustic god
ARIADNE
- the immortal wife of the wine-god Dionysos.
- There were several versions of her story. In one, Ariadne, a daughter of King Minos of Krete (Crete
KHEIRON (Chiron)
- eldest and wisest of the Kentauroi (Centaurs)
- Unlike his brethren Kheiron was an immortal son of the Titan Kronos (Cronus) and a half-brother of Zeus
sea gods
AMPHITRITE
- the goddess-queen of the sea
- wife of Poseidon, and eldest of the fifty Nereides.
GALATEIA (Galatea)
- one of the fifty Nereides and the goddess of calm seas.
- She frequented the coast of Sicily and there attracted the attention of the Kyklops (Cyclops) Polyphemos.
Agrarian gods
DEMETER
- the Olympian goddess of agriculture
- She presided over the foremost of the Mystery Cults which promised its intiates the path to a blessed afterlife in the realm of Elysium.
GAIA (Gaea)
- the goddess of the earth.
- She was one of the primoridal elemental deities (protogenoi) born at the dawn of creation.
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olympic gods
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ATHENE (Athena)
- goddess of wisdom and good counsel
- depicted as a stately woman armed with a shield and spear
HERMES
- god of herds and flocks
- Hermes was depicted as either handsome and athletic