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I have done research into gods and goddesses and have written brief descriptions of them. I have attempted to scale out family trees as I have already seen with the Olympian gods. I have tried to condense entire pantheons by attributing extra names or aliases to one deity. I have also made efforts to parallel myths with ancient history. I am not an expert nor do I hold any degrees. I am a self-taught person with a lot of otherwise useless information.

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What do you like about this subject?

I've always been into comic books and strange animals like the Loch Ness Monster. Mythology has always been a combination of the two; the promise and search of beings and creatures greater than anything else. They are history's first comic books.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?

I am hoping to make the pantheons of other cultures from Aztec to Russian as interesting and as intriguing as the Olympian gods which we seem to know so much more about already.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

I've been trying to put the Greek myths in a timeline, and the Greek Flood seems to occur when the island of Thera (modern Santorini) exploded. Thera has always been a prime candidate for Atlantis. Also, the dating of the flood in the Bible coincides close to the realm of Gilgamesh in Sumeria. This can't be a coincidence.

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2009-10-23 greek olympian gods symbols:

Zeus - thunderbolt - his control over the weather and storm Hera - peacock - her pride and vanity Poseidon - trident - his power and dominion over the sea Demeter - grain - she was the patron goddess

2009-10-23 greek olympian gods symbols:

Here's a list of symbols as best as I can recall: Zeus - thunderbolt Hera - peacock Poseidon - trident Demeter - grain Hades - no symbol Persephone - flowers Hercules - lion Apollo - sun Artemis

2009-10-14 greek mythology:

Is this an actual question desiring a response or are you just curious? Lightning was a symbol of the power of gods, especially to strike down mortals. Zeus controlled the lightning and power of sky

2009-10-12 Chinese guardians and gods:

The Malaysians I believe were Chinese in origin and they had several directional gods for the cardinal points of east, south, north and west.They also had two guardian gods who stood at the vault of heaven

2009-09-04 Mythology:

>How is myth related to what we are today? Myths are the stories used by our ancestors to describe how the world worked or how they saw their history. Every country has its own myths and its own gods

 

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