Ancient Greek Gods And Goddesses

Greek Gods and Goddesses How did the ancient Greeks interact with their Gods and Goddesses? Everything that we know about what the Greeks believed about their Gods and how they interacted with their Gods was written down by the poet Homer in 700 b.c. Although other Greeks have put their own spin on what Homer originally wrote, research concludes that many of the Greek Gods have powers that are linked to different phenomenon’s in nature. The Greeks believed that everything good and bad was because of the Gods, and that the Gods were apart of everything in their lives. One way can judge how important each God was to the Greeks is by looking at the size of each God’s temple and shrine. Every Greek city had a massive temple for Zeus, the king of the Gods and the ruler of the sky. Many believed that Zeus had the power to make a person have a good day and a

These Gods were Gaea, the earth Goddess, and Uranus the sky God. These Gods had 12 children and these 12 children became the titans. After the titans were born Uranus feared that his children would over throw him so he tried to banish them to the underworld, but the plan failed and the titans with the help of their mother overthrew their father and ruled over the earth. After a while the titan king Kronos had five children, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter and Hestia, and just like his father Kronos feared his children would overthrow him so after his children were born he ate them. Now Kronos’s wife was a little annoyed that her husband was eating all of her children so when their sixth child was born she hid him. This babies name was Zeus, and after he grew up he snuck up on his father and cut open his father’s stomach letting his siblings free. Zeus and his siblings then killed all the titans and started their reign over the Earth. After the war Zeus created mankind, and had children of his own, creating the many major and minor Greek Gods we know