The Creation of The World and Mankind Base on Mythology

1. How the World and Mankind
Were Created
THE CREATION
Greek Mythology

2. The universe
created the gods

3. Chaos
Night (Nyx) Erebus (Darkness)
…Black-winged Night
Into the bosom of Erebus dark and deep
Laid a wind-born egg, and as the seasons rolled
Forth sprang LOVE, the longed-for, shining, with wings of gold
Hypnos (Sleep)
Thanatos (Death)
Nemesis
Eris
Charon

4. LOVE
Light Day
Earth, the beautiful, rose up,
Broad-bosomed, she that is the
steadfast base
Of all things. And fair Earth first
bore
The starry Heaven,equal to herself,
To cover her on all sides and to be
A home forever for the blessed
Gods.

5. Gaea, known as Earth or
Mother Earth (the Greek
common noun for "land"
is ge or ga). She was an
early earth goddess and it
is written that Gaia was
born from Chaos, the
great void of emptiness
within the universe

6. URANUS, ALSO KNOWN
AS OURANOS, WAS THE
EMBODIMENT OF THE
SKY OR HEAVENS, AND
KNOWN AS THE GOD OF
THE SKY. HE WAS THE
FIRST SON OF GAEA (THE
EARTH) AND HE ALSO
BECAME HER HUSBAND.

7. Hecatoncheires
First Creatures
Cyclops
Titans

8. Giants Erinyes (The Furies)
Tisiphone,Megaera,Alecto

9. CRONUS (SATURN),
THE SON
OF URANUS AND
GAIA AND THE
YOUNGEST OF THE
TWELVE TITANS. HIS
WIFE WAS ALSO
ONE OF THE
TITANS

10. RHEA (OPS IN LATIN) IS THE
MOTHER OF THE GODS,
DAUGHTER
OF URANUS AND GAIA. SHE IS
MARRIED TO HER
BROTHER CRONUS AND IS
THE MOTHER
OF DEMETER, HADES, HERA,
HESTIA,
POSEIDON AND ZEUS.

11. HESTIA IS THE GREEK
GODDESS OF THE HEART
FIRE, HENCE PRESIDING
OVER DOMESTIC LIFE.
SHE IS THE ELDEST SISTER
OF ZEUS AND THE OLDEST
DAUGHTER
OF RHEA AND CRONUS.

12. DEMETER, THE GREEK EARTH
GODDESS PAR EXCELLENCE,
WHO BRINGS FORTH THE
FRUITS OF THE EARTH,
PARTICULARLY THE VARIOUS
GRAINS. SHE TAUGHT
MANKIND THE ART OF
SOWING SO THEY COULD
END THEIR NOMADIC
EXISTENCE. AS SUCH,
DEMETER WAS ALSO THE
GODDESS OF PLANNED
SOCIETY.

13. 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.

14. HADES IS THE LORD OF THE
DEAD AND RULER OF THE
NETHER WORLD, WHICH IS
REFERRED TO AS THE
DOMAIN OF HADES OR, BY
TRANSFERENCE, AS HADES
ALONE. HE IS THE SON
OF CRONUS AND RHEA.

15. POSEIDON IS FAMOUS AS THE
GOD OF THE SEA. THE SON
OF CRONUS AND RHEA,
POSEIDON IS ONE OF SIX
SIBLINGS WHO EVENTUALLY
"DIVIDED THE POWER OF THE
WORLD."

16. ZEUS, THE YOUNGEST SON
OF CRONUS AND RHEA, HE
WAS THE SUPREME RULER OF
MOUNT OLYMPUS AND OF THE
PANTHEON OF GODS WHO
RESIDED THERE. BEING THE
SUPREME RULER HE UPHELD
LAW, JUSTICE AND MORALS,
AND THIS MADE HIM THE
SPIRITUAL LEADER OF BOTH
GODS AND MEN.

18. DELPHI

19. TITANOMACHY
• A war that almost wrecked the universe
• A terrible war between Cronus, helped by his
brother Titans, against Zeus with his five
brothers and sisters

20. TITANOMACHY
Titans Olympians
Cronus Zeus
Titans-Atlas Zeus Siblings
Hecatoncheires
Prometheus

21. ATLAS

22. • Earth gave birth to her last and most frightful offspring, a
creature more terrible than any that had gone before. His name
was TYPHON.
A flaming monster with a hundred
heads ,
Who rose up against all the gods
Death whistled from his fearful
jaws,
His eyes flashed glaring fire

23. Thunder and Lightning
The bolt that never sleeps,
Thunder with breath of flame
Into his very heart the fire burned.

24. WRITE THE CORRECT ANSWERS ON THE LINES
IN THE PARAGRAPH BELOW.
• DEPICTING THE GREEK GODS
• Most primitive people worshipped their __________ in the form of
__________. Reptiles, fowls, or other animals were common. The
Greeks depicted their deities in __________ __________. The
Greeks were so impressed by the powers of their __________ that
they could not conceive of the deities in any other __________.
They believed that nature was governed by __________ similar to
their own but vastly more __________. Between deities and humans
there were many __________. The first was that the deities had
undying strength and __________, two qualities the Greeks highly
prized among human attributes.

25. GIANTS

26. OLYMPIANS

27. HERCULES