Greek And Roman Mythology- Creation Terms

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Gaia

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Earth, the mother of all life

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Eros/Desire

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Greek god of love, son of Aphrodite

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Ouranos

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Sky, Father of the first generation of Titans

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Muses

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Nine goddesses, rulers of literature, science, and arts

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Titans

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Second generation of divine beings, first 12 children of Earth and Sky, giant deities of incredible strength

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Cronus

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Leader of the Titans, overthrew his father, Sky, by castrating him with a sickle

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Rhea

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Titaness daughter, helped her son Cronus overthrow his father in revenge for swallowing their children

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Aphrodite

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Goddess of love an beauty, desired by all men, born from the foam in the ocean that came from Cronus' genitals

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Erinyes/Furies

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Chronic deities of vengeance, three maidens, arose from the drops of Uranus' genitalia blood that fell to the earth

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Tartarus

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A place where should were judged and given divine punishment, the prison for the Titans

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Cyclopes

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Race of giants, brothers of Titans or sons of Poseidon, synonyms of brute strength and power

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Hundred-Handers

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Overthrew Titans, guards of the gates of Tartarus

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Metis

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First spouse of Zeus, mother of wisdom, although was a trickster, he swallowed her when she was pregnant

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Athena

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Goddess of heroic endeavor, born from her father's head (Zeus)

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Typhon

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Monstrous giant, most deadly being, Earth bore him out of anger at the Gods for killing the Giants, her sons

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Hecate

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Brings great honor to any god whose prayers she receives favorably, Zeus truly honored her, often shown with torches

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Chaos

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The first thing to exist, personified enough to have born children but also a gloomy place that may be affected by Zeus' thunderbolts

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Parthenogenesis

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Asexual reproduction in which embryos grow without the fertilization an egg

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Cosmogony

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Any model concerning the origin of the universe, a moving and formless mass by which the gods and cosmos originated

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Theogony

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A poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods

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Hesiod

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Greek poet thought to have, with Homer, established Greek religious customs