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Major Gods and Goddesses

Introduction to Greek Mythology

Myth in Daily Life | What Is Myth? | Myths vs. Legends | Gods in the Heroic Age - Bible vs. Biblos | Creation Stories | Uranos' Revenge | Titanomachy | Olympian Gods and Goddesses | Five Ages of Man | Philemon and Baucis | Prometheus | Trojan War | Bulfinch Mythology | Myths and Legends | Kingsley Tales from Mythology | Golden Fleece and the Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The job of mythology is to provide explanations that make sense within one's culture. Frequently mythology explains where a people came from. Was it a cosmic egg? Chaos? Ginnungagap? In addition to providing explanations of events, mythology tells colorful tales about the supernatural creatures who can control human lives.

In this directory of mythology, you'll find the names of the deities, their attributes, some of the principal legends, creation and flood stories.

For more on the purpose of myth, see Introduction to Mythology.

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Introduction to Greek Mythology

Myth in Daily Life | What Is Myth? | Myths vs. Legends | Gods in the Heroic Age - Bible vs. Biblos | Creation Stories | Uranos' Revenge | Titanomachy | Olympian Gods and Goddesses | Five Ages of Man | Philemon and Baucis | Prometheus | Trojan War | Bulfinch Mythology | Myths and Legends | Kingsley Tales from Mythology | Golden Fleece and the Tanglewood Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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