RELI 2310 Lecture 7: The Origin of the Olympians
10 Apr 2018
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Hades (other bro) underworld (stays in the underworld bc people who die go to the underworld) Hestia goddess of the hearth & fire of the home(first swallowed by zues, last to come out) Hades god of the underworld (loves persephone) Poseidon earthshaker god of the sea (hates odyssios bc blinded his cyclops kid) Demeter earth goddess (like geia and rhea fertility of the earth) Hera sister and wife of zeus (ox eyed- they hella beautiful, called hera of the white arms bird is the peacock) Zeus sky god (father of most olympians bird is the eagle weapon is thunderbolt) Aphrodite his daughter cannot resist him. Fate, or the fates his other daughters- cannot disobey their ideas. Olympia sacred to hera before it was sacred to zeus. Temple of zeus same person who designed the perganon. Dodona oracle of zeus another worshiping place for zeus. Secondary festival at nemea won wild celery.
