according to these religions, if one lost, the world would be different than it is today. Examples like these come in all different shapes and size through many different belief systems: Apep or Apophis, the god of chaos in Egyptian mythology; Jörmungandr the Midgard serpent in Norse mythology; The Serpent King in Adam and Eve, and the Serpent in Pagan mythology; are all great examples of serpents across different cultures and belief systems. In Egyptian mythology, Apep, the god of chaos, is an enormous
circle around all of Midgard. His parents are Loki and Angrboða. His siblings are Fenrir and Hel. Jörmungandr has a mortal enemy known as the thunder god Thor. Jörmungandr’s venom was super poisonous and was so big that Odin, the father of the gods, cast him into the sea. Jörmungandr movements are what causes giant storms and tidal waves. There is a story about a time when Thor almost killed Jörmungandr. It started one day when Thor went out of Asgard disguised as a child. In the evening he came up
there the ancient Phoenicians and Greeks adopted the symbol and called it the Ouroboros, which literally translates to “devouring ones tail.” The serpent biting its tail is found in other mythos as well, including Norse myth, dubbing the serpent Jörmungandr one of three children of Loki and Angrboda, was so large that it encircles the Earth. It guarded the Tree of Life, and is often depicted as an Ouroboros.. In Mesoamerican culture as the serpent god Quetzalcoatl is sometimes portrayed biting
Essay About Odysseus, Adonis, and Thor Section I: "Odysseus Is The Most Cunning Man in the World" Odysseus, son of Procris and Cephalus of the Royal House of Athens, played a major role in the Trojan War. However, the legends of Odysseus do not begin until after the great war. At the end of the war he was separated from the rest of the Greek armies and was forced to wander for ten years until he was reunited with his family. His journeys in those ten years were very similar to Jason's journey in