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Greek Mythology

Ancient Greek believed in many gods and goddesses and unbelievable and unexplainable stories. What is Greek mythology? What is the purpose of Greek mythology? These are some questions that those of us interested in Greek mythology want to answers for. **__ The Three Main Gods __** The number one god is Zeus. Out of the three brothers they each have there own domain on earth. Zeus is known as the king of the gods also known as the god of thunder and lightning. Hades is known as the king of the underworld also the ruler of the dead and spirits. Last and definitely not least, Poseidon is the ruler of the sea, ocean, and everything in it.

Zeus Hades Poseidon

**__ Other Greek Gods and Goddesses __** All three brothers had kids and amazedly Zeus had fifty-two kids. Each kid have there own domain on earth. But they don’t only have there own domain on earth but of things. For example Athena is the goddesses of wisdom and war. Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty. All the gods and goddesses have different personality. Many of the personality are based on there domain. Like Aphrodite is the goddesses of love and because of that she is very jealous of other people being as beautiful as her. twelve - olympians

**__ Unusual things in Greek Mythology __** Many unusual things happened in Greek mythology like there are uncles marry there nieces or Greek gods eating there kids. There are many stories, legends and myth. They are usually told on vases’. Each Greek god or goddess have there own temple they usually open when you offer them something because they are very greedy and always want people to worship them. Many times the Greek gods and goddesses go down to earth and teach human a lesson or they’ll get cursed. They’ll are many unusual things so don’t be surprised if when you read a story of Greek mythology there is a god with more then one wife. Or gods eating there kids because weirder things have happened.