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    Morpheus-Greek God Morpheus is the Greek god of sleep and dreams. To me Morpheus has this cool ability to appear in dream people in any form. Also Morpheus is the god responsible for dreams of people. Another cool ability is that when a person is in the arms of Morpheus they fall into a sleep‚ and can see upcoming event in their lives or there future. Since Morpheus was the master of dreams he could copy any person in their dreams‚ and was able to take whatever they thought of wanted and keep it

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    In ancient greece times all the people believed in greek gods and goddesses. The Greek people believed that the twelve most important gods and goddesses lived at the top of Mount Olympus. This caused many of the gods and goddesses to compete to be the best‚ making them not get along. The two goddesses that fought the most was the goddess of the night and the goddess of the day.The goddess of the night was Nyx‚ and the goddess of the day was Hemera. Nyx was a very strong and beautiful goddess. While

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    The god that is the product of a god and a mortal. The wine god Dionysus. He is the son of the king of the Greek gods‚ Zeus‚ and his mother is named Semele. He was the god of fertility and wine‚ later considered a patron of the arts. He invented the art of wine making‚ and the farming culture to tend to grapes. He has two sides to his unique godly nature. On the one hand he brings extreme and divine enjoyment. The other side of his godly nature is brutal and unthinkable rage. If he chooses Dionysus

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    Hermes English/Greek Mythology Hermes the messenger of gods; this is the title given to one of the most fascinating gods in Greek mythology. Hermes (also called Mercury) is a god that is a big symbol for many things today. This Greek god is one out of a variety of the characters in stories that have changed the way we look at Greek Myth. One night in Olympia‚ Zeus‚ the greatest god of all‚ went out and impregnated Maia‚ the daughter of Atlas. The Next morning she bore Hermes‚ who was born in a

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    Born on the sunny island of Delos‚ Apollo was one of the most important of the twelve gods in Greek mythology. He was associated with many essential things including; the arts (poetry‚ art‚ dance‚ and music)‚ medicine and healing‚ the sun‚ truth‚ law‚ and knowledge and philosophy. He was the son of the Greek god Zeus‚ and nymph Leto. His siblings included his twin sister Artemis; the god of hunting and wilderness. He is depicted as an ideal handsome athletic youth‚ with curly blonde hair‚ that had

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    In Greek mythology there were the three major gods Zeus‚ Poseidon‚ and Hades. Their father was Kronos. Kronos was the Lord of all the titans. He swallowed them whole but they fought their way up out of his mouth. They chopped him to pieces with his own weapon of power. They chopped him into a million pieces‚ and sent him to Tartarus to suffer for a lot of eras to come. And he did. The gods had children with humans. The children were called demigods. One of these demigods was called Percus. He

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    the Gods and bring prosperity to their community. However‚ it has never been specified what exactly pleases the Gods. In the play Antigone‚ there is a dispute between Creon‚ the king‚ and Antigone on whether the burial of Antigone’s brother will please or offend the Gods. This play demonstrates how influential Greek gods were to the people of Rome‚ Antigone’s reasoning for defying is her father is that she does not believe his decisions to refuse her brother a proper burial is what the gods want

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    Throughout time men have always endeavored to figure out how the world and humans came to be. The Greeks were no exception and had a very fascinating perspective on the origin of the universe. With war‚ tragedy‚ and dysfunctional all-powerful families‚ the Greek story has it all. Starting with the origin of the universe itself‚ to the creation of man and sin‚ the Greek’s story is one of the best. From the beginning of existence‚ there was Chaos‚ a black void of nothing that took up all the space

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    living. In comparison‚ God created Adam and Eve. He created where they lived and restricted the things they were able to do. God was the creator of the human race‚ and the council was the creator of the Utopian society. Although‚ Prometheus and Gaea lived in a collectivism society. In The Unmentionable times‚ is set in the dark ages of the future. Equality 7-2521 Experiments to electricity to become a scholar in the world of scholars but he is similar to the Greek god Prometheus. The Golden One

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    Select Greek gods and their celebrity comparisons Zeus‚ the god of the sky was the chief God of all deities in the Greek mythology. Having upstaged his father‚ Cronus with help of his sibling‚ Hades‚ Poseidon‚ and Hera. Zeus is portrayed as a controller of weather. As the wielder of thunderbolts‚ he is considered an instant punisher. Zeus is famed for having sired many demigods from his interaction with various goddesses and mortal females. In the film industry Steven Spielberg is by far the best

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