The lesser Gods of earth
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The lesser Gods of earth
- 1. THE LESSER GODS OF EARTH Mythology & folklore
- 2. • Earth herself was called the All-Mother, but she was not really a divinity.
- 3. • Demeter (Ceres)- the goddess of theCorn - goddess of the fertility of the earth and harvest - protector of marriage and social order - daughter of Cronus and Rhea
- 5. • Dionysus (Bacchus) - the godof wine, - were the supreme deities of the earth, - and of greatimportance in Greek and Roman Mythology.
- 7. GODS OF THE EARTH
- 8. PAN was the chief he was Hermes’ son a noisy, merry god, the Homeric Hymn in his honor calls him.
- 10. he was part animaltoo with a goat’shorn anda goat’s hoofs, insteadof feet. hewas also the goatherds’godand the shepherds’god, anda gay companionof the woodland nymphs whenthey danced
- 11. his home are all wild places; but best of all he loves Arcady Pan is a wonderful musician he was always in love with one nymphor another.
- 12. SILENUS was sometimes saidto be Pan’s son, sometimes his brother, a son of Hermes, he was a jovial fat old man, associated with Bacchusas well as withPan. Became a devoted follower of Bacchus
- 14. CASTOR & POLLUX Castor andPollux(Polydeuces)was saidto live half of theirtime on earthand half in heaven, they were thesons of Leda representedas beinggods, the specialprotectorof sailors
- 16. they were especially honored in Rome but the accounts of Castor and Pollux are contradictory
- 17. CASTOR a mortal who won a kind of half-and-half immortality brother of Clytemnestra POLLUX heldto be divine immortal brother ofHelen
- 18. but they are both brothers often called a sons ofZeus on the other handthey were also called the sons of Tyndareus, they also went to theland of Cattle owners (Idas and Lynceus)
- 19. the important part they play is the account of Castor’s death, when Polluxproved his brotherly devotion, because when Castor was dead, Pollux was inconsolable, and then he prayed to die also.
- 20. SILENI creatures part man and part horse, they walk ontwolegs, notfour oftenhad horses’ hoofs instead of feet, sometimes horses ears, and always horses’ tails
- 22. SATYRS were goat-men they had their home in the wild places of the earth,
- 25. OREADS nymphs of the mountains DRYADS sometimes called HAMADRYADS, nymphs of trees their life was in each case bound up withthat of her tree
- 27. WINDS AEOLUS- king of thewinds also lived on the earth an island Aeolia was his home viceroy of the gods
- 29. FOUR CHIEF WINDS BOREAS- the north wind in Latin AQUILO, ZEPHYR- the west wind in LatinFAVONIUS NOTUS- the south wind in LatinAUSTER EURUS-the east wind the same in both Greek andLatin
- 31. SOME BEINGS NEITHER HUMAN NOR DIVINE ON THE EARTH
- 32. CENTAURS they were halfman,halfhorse they were savagecreatures, CHIRON- was knowneverywherefor his goodness andhis wisdom
- 34. GORGONS Earth dwellers there were three, two of them were immortal, they were dragonlike creatures with wings PHORCYS- son of the Sea and the Earth, was their father
- 36. GRAIAE their sisters threegray womenwho hadbutone eye between them they lived onthe farther bank of ocean
- 38. SIRENS lived on an island in the Sea hey had an enchanting voices it was not known, what they looked like
- 40. THE FATES they were assigned to noabode whether inheaven or onthe earth Moirae in Greek Parcaein Latin