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Welcome to this site. You have just entered the
portal to the mythical world. Greek gods and mythical
creatures are hidden in this website. You may see the buttons to your left
(they are the three portals to meet the Ancient living things). You will see
dragons and centaurs along with the powerful Zeus and Apollo. You may
click on the portal you would like to visit next. each is a wise
choice.
The Creation The ancient Greeks didn't have one single creation myth, Many, often contradictory stories explain the way the universe and the World were created. The Creation Myths of the Greeks are called the "Theogonia", and were written by the Greek Poet Hesiodus (Hesiodos), who lived in the 8th century B.C. His stories are one of the oldest known sources about the Greek view of the World. According to him, everything eventually came from Chaos, the empty void at the beginning of creation. From Chaos came five "elements": Gaea, Mother Earth, Tartarus, the Underworld, deep within the Earth, Erebus, the Darkness of Tartarus, Eros, the Power of Love and Night, the Darkness. Zeus fathered many gods and heroes. By Hera he had Hebe, Ares and, in some versions, Hephaistos. By Leto he had the twins, Apollo and Artemis. By Maia he had Hermes and by the mortal woman, Semele, he had Dionysos. In some versions Aphrodite is his daughter by Dione. He fathered Athena alone, after swallowing her mother, Metis.Of the heroes, Zeus was father of Herakles, of Perseus by Danaë, to whom he came in the form of a shower of gold, and of Sarpedon, one of the heroes of the Trojan War. He was also father of Helen by Leda.In his amorous adventures he often changed shape, as when he took on the form
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