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Sunday, February 7, 2010

Hermes


This is the story about Hermes, Hermes has been in more stories than anyone in Greek mythology, mainly because he is Zeus' herald and messenger. Now this is his story when he was a new born baby. Hermes is a very mischievous god. He is the God of Thieves, Messengers, and Speed. Now as a baby he was still this way. So he decided he would steal a few of his step-brother, Apollo's, sacred cows. He crawled all the way to the cattle and got them to walk backwards in his footsteps so it would look like he was just visiting them instead of stealing them, now during all of this his Mother Maia was sleeping. So Hermes snuck back in a hide the cattle. Little did he know that Zeus, his father, was watching him. Apollo said to Zeus that someone had stolen his sacred cattle and Zeus seeing the whole thing demanded Hermes give back his cattle, but baby Hermes had other plans, he had found a turtle shell and attached 5 strings top to bottom on the shell, he called this a Lyre. He said that he would give Apollo the lyre of he could have the cattle. Apollo agreed to this and took the lyre. This was just the first of Hermes mischeif later on in the stories.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Artemis


Goddess of the Hunt. She is not related to Zeus or his siblings in any way. She was a daughter of a different Titan. Her father's name is Talos. but I'm not going to go into to much detail with him. Now Artemis is a very skilled hunter and is normally seen either holding a stag as a trophy or holding a bow and arrow aimed and ready to fire. She is known as a huntress and is the leader of the Hunters. The Hunters are a group of daughters of the Gods. The Hunters have a story about the hunt of the Mandacore. The Mandacore is a creature that has the head of a human, but the body of a lion. Artemis and The Hunters are very swift of foot. For example you maybe a monster and you are hiding from The Hunters so your walking through the forest and you think you see something but you think it is just a bird. Big mistake! The next thing you know is that you are in the realm of Tartarus. Tartarus is basically hell in Greek mythology. Now the Hunters found the Mandacore drinking from a river then suddenly the Mandacore dies. The Hunters were shocked to see that Artemis was gone, they then looked back at the Mandacore but it was gone too. Later they returned to their house and saw Artemis shaving the fur off a headless Mandacore. Hm, go figure.