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Goddess of love and beauty; in Hesiod, she was born from the castration of Uranus; in Homer, she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione.
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Aphrodite
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Virgin daughter of Zeus born from her father's brain, she was goddess of wisdom, women's handicrafts, and victory in war.
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Athene
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In Hesiod, a yawning chasm or Void, one of four primal entities from which the universe evolved
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Chaos
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A theory about the origin or birth of the universe (cosmos).
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Cosmogony
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A theory or belief describing the natural order or structure of the universe.
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Cosmology
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Titan son of Gaea (Gaia) and Uranus, he deposed his father and ruled the cosmos until overthrown by his youngest son, Zeus. The Romans later identified him with Saturn.
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Cronus
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Ancient Babylonian creation epic celebrating Marduk's victory over an older generation of gods, a Near Eastern counterpart to Hesiod's Theogony.
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Enuma Elish
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God of love and sexual desire, he was represented as an unbegotten primal force (Hesiod) or as the son of Ares and Aphrodite (Homer).
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Eros
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The mysterious power of destiny that shapes human lives and history. (See Moirae
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Fate
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The Greeks' original Earth Mother, a primal divine power coeval with Chaos. After producing Uranus (Sky), she mated with him to produce the Titans.
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Gaea
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Son of Cronus and Rhea, and brother of Zeus, he was given dominion over the Underworld; he is also called Pluto. (2) The subterranean realm of the dead, which is named after its gloomy ruler.
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Hades
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Daughter of Cronus and Rhea and sister and wife of Zeus, she was goddess of marriage and domesticity. Her matriarchal spirit ill .t the patriarchal rule of Zeus.
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Hera
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Chief god of the Babylonian pantheon, the son of Ea (god of wisdom), and creator/hero of the Enuma Elish.
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Marduk
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Personification of wise advice; Zeus's first wife, whom he swallowed to produce Athene.
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Metus
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Personification of memory, daughter of Uranus and Gaea, and, by Zeus, the mother of the Muses.
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Mnemosyne
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The nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, patrons of literature and the fine arts.
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The muses
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Personification of victory, to whom a temple was dedicated on the Athenian Acropolis
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Nike
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In primitive Greek geography, a gigantic river that encircled the earth. (2) A Titan son of Gaea and Uranus, he was the father of all rivers.
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Ocean (Oceanus)
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Titan wife of Cronus and mother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, and Hestia, she was sometimes identified with the Asiatic goddess Cybele
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Rhea
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The ritual tearing asunder of a young male sacrificial victim, a dismemberment associated with Osiris, Dionysus, Pentheus, and Orpheus, as well as numerous Near Eastern dying and rising gods, such as Attis, Tammuz, and Adonis.
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sparagmos
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The dark abyss beneath Hades' realm where Zeus chained the fallen Titans and where the wicked suffered torment
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Tartarus
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Race of giant gods whom Gaea and Uranus begot and whom Zeus overthrew and imprisoned in Tartarus
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Titans
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A monstrous giant, in appearance half-human and half-reptile, with one hundred dragon heads; the child of Gaea and Tartarus, a manifestation of the dragon of chaos that Zeus had to defeat before assuming control of the cosmos
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Typhoeus
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A reptilian child of Hera, an incarnation of storm winds.
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Typhon
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The original sky god and son-husband of Gaea, he was castrated and deposed by his "crafty" son Cronus.
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Uranus
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