Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Hecate
She is the Greek goddess of crossroads and is believed that she descended from the Titans. In some of her monumental depictions, she is depicted in three bodies. She is in the center, one is in the left, and the last one is in the right. The left holds a cup with snake. In the center holds a letter "E" like stamp. And the last holds a torch. Some were being depicting Hecate that had two mall torches in top of her head, and the two beside her holds torch.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Athena

Athena, the goddess of wisdom, war, industry, arts, justice, and skill.
In wisdom, she says "I've always admired smart women.", war, she speaks "You should see her take on the men and clobber them.", industry, she tells "Her gifts to gods and mortals are legendary.", on arts she says "You gotta have art.", justice,she speaks "Nice to have the law on your side.", and on skills, she tells "Nothing like a skilled trade to see you through rough times."
For your information about Athena, The city and capital of Greece, Athens, was named after her, and a temple called "Parthenon", which houses a giant statue of Athena. Athena is the patron of Athens. She in some depiction, is wearing a warrior helmet, spear, a shield, and the dress like Mars' shirt. On her helmet, is like a red brush.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Cyclope

A cyclope is a giant monster, but with only one eye. Their eye is located in the middle of the forehead. They were stubborn and abrupt of emotion. The known cyclopes were Polyphemus, The three brothers named Brontes, which means "thunder", Steropes, which means "lightning", and Arges, which means "brightness". These three brothers came from the union of Gaia, the Mother Earth, and Uranus, the sky and one of the planets in the Solar system, in astrological science if you willl be studying it. Polyphemus, the famous of all cyclopes, descended from Poseidon, the God of all oceans, seas, and all waterforms. The Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires, or the hundred-handed-ones. Brontes, Steropes, and Arges were skillled metal workers. They made Zeus' thunderbolt, the trident of Poseidon, and the Helmet of darkness of Hades, the underworld god. They spent the majority of their early existence imprisoned. A Titan named Cronus, or Saturn, next to Jupiter in the astrological science, freed those three cyclop brothers, but on e thing about Cronus is he is a "paranoid" ruler. He feared the Cyclopes' power and he casted them to Tartarus, or the place of the underworld punishment. Zeus came to Tartarus and freed the Cyclopes, requiring their aid in the Titanomachy, or the battle of the Titans. Polyphemus is an evil cyclope, which was become blind. Odysseus blinded this evil cyclope.
Sphinx

The Sphinx, itself, was a monster made up of a body of a lion, wings of an eagle, and a breast of a woman. If you cannot solve her riddle, then you will be destroyed. A man named Oedipus, was a traveller in whom in the market, he himself saw the people screaming in fear. He asked one of the people, he said: Why are you screaming? the man said to him: A monster made of lion body, eagle wings and woman's breast came here to destroy us if we cannot solve the riddle she says.
Oedipus showed himself to the Sphinx. The sphinx made a riddle for Oedipus to solve.
What comes in the morning with four legs, on the noon as two legs, and on the evening as three legs.
Oedipus answered: It is a man because when you were still a baby, you crawl. When you were a teen, you walk. And when you were old, you will walk with a cane.
The Sphinx destroyed itself from Oedipus' answer. The people made Oedipus a monarch in their town called as Thebes.
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