2022年11月29日 · Horus was the falcon-headed Egyptian god of sun, sky, and kingship. Appearing in many manifestations over thousands of years, his best-known role is as the son of Osiris and Isis, destined to retake his father’s throne.

2022年11月29日 · Thoth was the vitally important Egyptian god of the moon, medicine, science, wisdom, and magic. Depicted with the head of an ibis, he invented writing, was the divine healer, and acted as advisor to the rest of the pantheon.

2023年4月28日 · And indeed, Odysseus made it most of the way to Ithaca without incident. But while he was sleeping, his men opened the bag of winds, thinking Odysseus was hiding a treasure inside. The released winds quickly blew Odysseus all the way back to Aeolus. Realizing that Odysseus must have angered some god, Aeolus refused to help the hero a second time.

2022年11月29日 · The Egyptian creation myth centered around a creator god (usually Ra, but possibly Ptah, Atum, or Amun, depending on the tale) who brought the world into being by ejaculating and created the first gods through his seed. Hathor’s cult held that the goddess was both the hand that aroused the creator and the vital force of his seed. The Coffin ...

2023年4月7日 · The smith god Hephaestus was also Hera’s son, though ancient sources disagreed on his exact paternity: some traditions made him the son of both Hera and Zeus, while others made him the son of Hera alone, born without a father. Hera in the House of Hephaistos by William Blake Richmond (1902) Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Public ...

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2022年11月29日 · The Greek primordial gods were the first beings to populate the cosmos and gave birth to all the subsequent gods, creatures, and mortals of Greek mythology. Two of these primordial gods, Gaia and Uranus, were the parents of …

2022年12月2日 · Shennong’s contributions earned him a god-like status among the villagers. In some interpretations of his myth, he would later become known as Yan Di, or the “Emperor of Fire” (since fire was an important symbol to the people of his home village), who is considered to be one of the three mythological kings of China.

2022年11月29日 · The Norse gods and goddesses are the array of deities honored by ancient Nordic worshipers. They primarily came from two different tribes, the Aesir and the Vanir, but were united in their efforts to fight the jötnar, a tribe of giants dwelling in …

2023年3月8日 · Nereus occasionally appears in Roman literature, for instance in the poems of Virgil (70–19 BCE) and Ovid (43 BCE–17/18 CE), as a powerful and even menacing god of the sea. The poet Horace (65–8 BCE) had Nereus warn the Trojan prince Paris about the consequences of his abduction of Helen in one of his Odes (1.15).