The background and setting of some Greek mythological characters
Artemis is the symbol of the moon goddess in Greek mythology. She is also the goddess of hunting, the god of women, and the goddess of midwifery. She loves nature and protects wild animals. She is the embodiment of female purity and is deeply worshiped by virgins in the boudoir.
, is a twin sister and sister of the sun god Apollo, and delivered her younger brother Apollo. Artemis Although Artemis is the moon goddess, she is also an agile female warrior. She carries the shining light behind her.
With the silver-colored bow and arrow, she is a magic shooter whose arrows are flawless!
One of the three goddesses of the Olympus pantheon, she is also the most beautiful and pure goddess. To a certain extent, she represents the purity and beauty of the moon, the wild atmosphere brought by hunting, and the uniqueness after mixing.
With her temperament, she has completely suppressed Athena, the goddess of wisdom! If it weren't for being one of the virgin goddesses and lacking the unique charm of a mature woman, she could even suppress Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, in appearance.
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When she was three years old, she sat on the lap of her father Zeus. Zeus asked her what kind of gift she wanted. She replied: "Please give me eternal virginity; a bow and arrow like my brother Apollo; the responsibility of directing light..."
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Zeus said: "With children like you, I don't have to fear Hera's jealousy. You can get all this..."
Artemis' appearance is extremely beautiful, her figure is graceful, her legs are slender, her waist is slender, her skin is white and smooth, and she is covered with the holy light of the moon. There is a dazzling moon embedded between her eyebrows, which is
Proof that she inherited the priesthood of the moon. Her curly brown hair hangs down to her waist, fluttering in the wind. Her eyes are as dreamy and blurry as moonlight, clear and agile, and her color is a deep and quiet dark blue. Her eyelashes are thick, and her lips are
Small and red, with a proud smile at the corner of her mouth. She is the moon goddess but also the goddess of hunting. Her smile is full of wildness!
Gaia, Earth Mother
Gaia Gaia (English: gaia, Greek: Γα?α), the god of the earth in Greek mythology, is the mother of the gods and the most respected and prominent god among all gods. Gaia is also the earliest god to appear in Greek mythology
, at the beginning of the world, Caius (chao
Born by the earth mother Gaia (2 pictures). She was the grandmother of Zeus. Gaia gave birth to the sky, the god Ouranos (ouranosoruranus), and combined with him to give birth to six boys, six girls, and twelve Titans
The giant god, three cyclops and three hundred-armed giants are the beginning of the world, and all the gods are her descendants. To this day, Westerners still often refer to the earth as "Gaia". Gaia's status in the West is somewhat similar.
The difference between Nuwa in the East is that Nuwa created humans, while Gaia created the gods, and can be said to be the ancestor of Western humans. Us) castrated his father, and helped Cronus' wife keep the third generation.
God King Zeus. It can be said that the succession of god kings in the history of Greek mythology is related to her. To this day, Westerners still often refer to the earth as "Gaia". In English, there are also many words starting with the letter "g" related to "Earth"
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lops) The three storm gods living in Sicily in Greek mythology - brontes (thunder god), sterops (electricity god) and arges (thunderbolt god), they all belong to the giant race, characterized by "one-eyed", only in the middle of the forehead
There is one eye. These Cyclops were once imprisoned in Tartarus (the abyss under Hades), and in later legends became three outstanding blacksmiths, helping the god of fire and forging, Hezhunstos, to forge
It is said that the lightning in the hand of Zeus was forged by these three giants. In the original myth, they were the sons of Uranus, and later gradually evolved into the sons of Poseidon, King of the Sea, and finally broke away from the system of gods and became a separate entity.
The Cyclops tribe is characterized by being rough and cannibalistic. There are related stories in Homer's "The Odyssey". There are some giants with only one eye in the myth. At first, there were stories about those giants who lived on the earth in ancient times.
The myth is probably an attempt to explain why there are magnificent buildings from the Mycenaean era in various regions of Greece. The myth says that these buildings made of huge stones were built by the one-eyed giants who came to Greece from Lycia. Greece
People believe that wherever there are giant buildings, it is a place where the one-eyed giant lived.
The hundred-armed giants appeared in the early stages of Greek mythology. Hesiod called them "Oranides" (commonly known as "Hekatoncles") in "Theogony". According to "Theogony"
"The Hundred-Armed Giants are the children of Gaia and Uranus. There are three children in total, named Briareos, Kotos and Guges. They are all huge and ferocious monsters, even
Hugeer than the Titans and Cyclops.
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Soon after the Hundred-Armed Giants were born, their father Ouranos threw them into the depths of Tartarus because he saw that they were ugly monsters. In some versions of the myth, the situation is somewhat different: Ouranos
When North discovered how hideous the Hundred-Armed Giants were, he stuffed them back into Gaia's womb, causing Gaia great pain and horror; this incident prompted Gaia to encourage Cronus to overthrow his father. In this version
, it was Kronos who later imprisoned the Hundred-Armed Giant in Tartarus.
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In short, the three hundred-armed giants have been imprisoned in Tartarus and are closely guarded by the dragon Kempe. During the Titanic gods' war against Zeus, the Olympus gods (headed by Zeus) were fighting against the Titans.
(led by Cronus) were at a disadvantage in the struggle; at this time Gaia suggested that Zeus go to the Hundred-Armed Giants for help. Zeus then went down to Tartarus and released the three infinitely powerful Hundred-Armed Giants. As expected, they
Willing to serve Zeus. During the battle, the Hundred-Armed Giant threw 100 rocks as huge as mountains at a time, which even the Titans could not resist. Only with the help of the Hundred-Armed Giant, Zeus won the final victory. Hersey
Odd went on to write that the three hundred-armed giants later became the guards guarding the gates of Tartarus. Perhaps in order to coordinate the relationship between the ancient myth of the hundred-armed giants and the Olympian pantheon, Hesiod asked the three hundred-armed giants to guard the gates of Tartarus.
One of the hundred-armed giants, Briareus became the son-in-law of Poseidon.dd