MYTHOLOGIES

OF THE WORLD

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 MYTHOLOGIES OF THE WORLD
Mythology DESCRIPTION
Mesopotami Annu (sky), Enlil (storm), Enki (water), Ea (wisdom), Ishtar
an (fertility), and Erishkigal (underworld)
Stories from Syria, Phoenicia, and Palestine. Divinities include El
Canaanite
(the creator) and Baal (heavy rains)
Egyptian Dying, rising vegetation gods. Osiris, Isis, and Horus
Celtic Wales and Ireland which the Romans failed to subdue
Life derives from ice and fire and is ultimately consumed by them.
Norse
Odin, Thor, Loki, Frigg, Balder
Mexican and Aztecs, the heavens, with astronomical observations and
South calendrics, dominated mythology
American

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 MYTHOLOGIES OF THE WORLD
Mythology DESCRIPTION
Reflected a life of warriors and of nomadic pastoralists beginning
Persian
to turn to agriculture
Sacrifice and cult was deified, developing an endless conflict of
gods and demons of Hinduism, together with cyclic creation,
Indian
maintenance of the balance of good and evil, and destruction to
prepare the way for new creation

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Rooted in its vast land, veneration of its emperors, whose good
rule brought prosperity and was a mark of heavenly approval,
and in reverence to ancestors, the link between humans and
Chinese
gods. Influenced by: Taoism (yin and yang), Confucianism
(learning and discipline), and Buddhism (reincarnation, conflict of
good and evil, and judgment)
Centered on land, and the establishment of imperial dynasties
was combined with Buddhist doctrine on death and the afterlife.
Japanese
Izanagi, Izanami, Oo-yamazumi (mountain) Oo-wadatumi (sea)
Amaterasu (Sun), Tukuyomi (Moon) Susanou as (man)
Adaptation of the greeks. Venus, Apollo, Jupiter, Vulcan,
Roman
Neptune, Dis
Greek Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Apollo

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 GREEK AND ROMAN
GODS AND GODDESSES
GREEK ROMAN TITLE
GODDESS Love and
Aphrodite Venus
beauty
GOD Music, poetry,
Apollo Apollo
sun
Ares Mars GODESS War
Artemis Diana GODESS Moon
Asclepius Aesculapius GOD Medicine
Athena Minerva GODDESS Wisdom

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 GREEK AND ROMAN
GODS AND GODDESSES

GREEK ROMAN TITLE

GOD Sky and
Cronus Saturn
agriculture
GODDESS Fertility
Demeter Ceres
and crops
Dionysius Bacchus GOD Wine, ecstasy
Eros Cupid GOD of love
Gaea Terra Mother earth
Hades Dis GOD Underworld
GOD Fire, craftsman
Hephaestus Vulcan
for gods

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 GREEK AND ROMAN
GODS AND GODDESSES

GREEK ROMAN TITLE

Queen of gods,
Hera Juno
marriage
GOD Messenger of
Hermes Mercury
gods, travel
Queen of the
Persephone Proserpina
underworld
Poseidon Neptune GOD Sea
Zeus Jupiter Ruler of gods

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