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GREEK GODS - Coggle Diagram
GREEK GODS
Primordial Gods
KHRONOS- God of time. Emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation. He had three heads, a man, a bull, and a lion. Husband of serpentine goddess Ananke.
NYX - Goddess of the night. Emerged as the dawn of creation. She was a child of Khaos, and wife of Erebos and had Aither and Hemera.
Olympian Gods
ARES- Olympian god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. Depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear.
ZEUS- King of the Gods and the god of the sky, weather, law and order, destiny and fate, and kingship. Depicted as a regal, mature man with a sturdy figure and dark beard. Attributes were a lightning bolt, a royal sceptre and an eagle
Titans
ATLAS- Titan god who bore the sky aloft. Leader of the Titanes in their war against Zeus. Also the god who instructed mankind in the art of astronomy
MNEMOSYNE- Titan goddess of memory and remembrance and the inventress of language and words. Also a goddess of time. Represented the rote memorisation required to preserve the stories of history and the sagas of myth before the introduction of writing
Sea Gods
THE SEIRENES- Three monstrous sea-nymphs who lured sailors to their death with a bewitching song. Formerly handmaidens of the goddess Persephone and when she was secretly abducted by Haides
THE IKHTHYOKENTAUROI- A pair of centaurine sea-gods with the upper bodies of men, the lower fore-quarters of horses, and the serpentine tails of fish and brows were crowned with a pair of lobster-claw horns.
Sky Gods
SELENE- Titan goddess of the moon. Depicted as a woman riding sidesaddle on a horse or driving a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds
THE HESPERIDES- The goddess-nymphs of evening and the golden light of sunsets. Daughters of either Nyx or Atlas. Entrusted with the golden apples which was had been presented to the goddess Hera by Gaia on her wedding day. Regarded as the source of the golden light of sunset because of the apples.
Underworld Gods
HYPNOS- God or personified spirit (daimon) of sleep. Depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or brow. Attributes included either a horn of sleep-inducing opium, a poppy-stem, a branch dripping water from the river Lethe (Forgetfulness), or an inverted torch
KERBEROS- Three-headed hound of Haides. Guarded the gates of the underworld and prevented the escape of the shades of the dead. Depicted as a three-headed dog with a serpent's tail, mane of snakes, and a lion's claws
Rustic Gods
DIONYSOS- Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, madness and wild frenzy. Depicted as either an older, bearded god or an effeminate, long-haired youth
NYMPHAI- Female spirits of the natural world. Minor goddesses of the forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas. Also companions of the gods
Agrarian Gods
HAIDES- King of the underworld and god of the dead. Presided over funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial. Also the god of the hidden wealth of the earth
HEKATE- Goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts and necromancy. Depicted as a woman holding twin torches. Sometimes she was dressed in a knee-length maiden's skirt and hunting boots