Greek+Myths

Greek Myths
Greek Myths by Tony Tan

Once there was a large space known as the dark void. Then, out of the darkness emerged Gaia.Gaia was sad, so she created the sky. They had 6 children;3 hundred handed ones and 3 cyclops which is a monster with one eye. Sky said they were to ugly so he threw them into a cage. Then Gaia's wife had more children. The children were called the titans. When the titans grew older, Gaia gave the the leader of the titans; Kronos a scythe. Kronos used the scythe to kill father sky, but did not want to free the cyclops and the hundred handed ones. When Sky was killed Kronos ruled the world. Kronos got a wife and they had but Kronos wanted to rule forever,so he ate his first four children.Kronos' wife had a child but she did not want Kronos to eat him, so she gave kronos a rock to eat instead. The child she had was Zeus, and she put Zeus in a cave and Zeus was nursed by the river nymphs. When Zeus grew up, he asked Metas the titan a favor. Metas the titan tricked kronos into eating a magic herb, which made him throw up his children. The children were: Poseiden, Hades,Demeter,Hera, and Hestia.

A war quickly insured! to turn the tide, Zeus recruited the cyclops and the hundred-handed ones. They forged the Trident, Master bolt, and the Helm of darkness. Using these weapons, they quickly turned the tide! But then typhoon, the father of all monsters came and attacked the gods. The gods were running but then Zeus used his master bolt and he made a mountain fall on Typhoon! So typhoon was trapped. The war ended and the gods won Zeus Poseidon, and Hades each got a part of the world Zeus got the sky ,Poseidon the sea, and Hades the underworld, and that is how the gods became gods. The End

The story of Aphrodite
Aphrodite was born from sky"s blood! Aphrodite was found by the four seasons, who became her attendants. The Greek gods saw her and they turned her into the god of love. Then the male gods started arguing about who would marry Aphrodite and at the end Zeus decided Hephaestus the blacksmith would marry her. Aphrodite did not like Hephaestus and she started dating Ares. One night Hephaestus caught them with each other so he caught the two in a trap. They were exposed and punished, but they continued dating anyway.

How Hermes got Apollo's cattle
Hermes was created as the result of a titan and Zeus giving birth. When he was a baby,Hermes found Apollo's cattle and stole them. He even forced the cattle to walk backwards, and tied brooms or something like that to the tails of the cows to wipe their tracks. He killed a cow and and strung its intestines on a tortoiseshell to make the lyre. The rest of the cows in a big dark cave. When Apollo found out he was furious but, since he had the power of the prophecy he found Hermes.(he had to chase the baby around in circles in Olympus to catch him in front of the gods. Ha Ha Apollo.) Hermes then started playing the lyre, and Apollo liked it so much that he traded the cattle for the lyre. Hermes then became the messenger of the gods.

Gods
This is the information of the gods. The information is organized as the following: God, Power, Animals or symbol, weapon of choice Zeus, sky, eagle ,Master bolt

Poseidon ,The Ocean, horse ,The trident

Hades, underworld ,skeleton, realm of destruction

Ares, fighting and chaos, boar, shield and sword

Athena ,wisdom, Owl ,anything available and mind power (Not a Person who moves things with their mind)

Demeter, harvest, corn,..................

Artemis, hunting and the moon, deer, bow