Monday, February 24, 2014

Meeting the other Gods and Goddesses

Demeter
This is the Greek goddess of grain and harvest, daughter of Cronus and Rhea.
Dionysus
This is the Greek God of ecstasy, wine, theater, and merrymaking. He is one of the 12 deities on Mount Olympus.
Apollo
Apollo is the Greek God of the moon. He is the twin brother to Artemis, and their parents are Zeus and Leto. Apollo drags the sun across the sky each day with his horse and chariot. He is often seen with a bow and arrow and laurel wreath.
Hermes
Hermes is a Greek God, who was a trickster. He played a trick by turning the hooves of cattle backwards.
Raven
Raven is fighting with Coyote. He had 3 bags of light which he opened to make the stars, moon, and the sun.
Coyote
Coyote is a trickster, and his son died, so he regretted not making everyone have eternal life.
Balder
He was made invincible except for the small weakness of mistletoe, since it was so little it seemed insignificant. But Loki made an arrow of mistletoe and used it to kill Balder.
Odin
He is the guardian of Asgard, and has the keys of Asgard on his belt.
Loki
Loki is a trickster God. He killed Balder because he thought Balder was too cocky. He has a daughter named Hell,which rules the underworld.
Freya
Her husband ran away and left her once, and she got really worried and cried, and her tears turned into amber in the water.
Thor
Only Thor can pick up his hammer. Once he had to get his hammer back, by dressing up as a bride in a wedding, since it is custom to put his hammer over the bride's head during ceremony.
Jade Emperor
He searched for immortality and had to fight a demon.
Sun Wu Kong
He is the trickster, monkey, and is very powerful. He has a staff that can grow super long, a magical cloud that transports him, and he can change shape, size, and form.
Horus
He got really angry at her mom and chopped her head off, but then they got married after he became ruler of Egypt.
Ra
He sent Hathor to punish all the humans on earth for disrespecting him.
Set 
He chopped up Osiris into 14 pieces and scattered them all over Egypt to get rid of him.
Osiris
He rules the underworld and decides who gets to go to heaven and who stays in the underworld.
Isis
Isis searched all over the world and found almost all of Osiris and put him back together.

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