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  2. Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    Greek mythology has changed over time to accommodate the evolution of their culture, of which mythology, both overtly and in its unspoken assumptions, is an index of the changes. In Greek mythology's surviving literary forms, as found mostly at the end of the progressive changes, it is inherently political, as Gilbert Cuthbertson (1975) has argued.

  3. Creation of life from clay - Wikipedia

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    Iñupiat mythology has Raven create a human out of clay, who would later become Tornaq, the first demon. [28] According to Inca mythology, the creator god, Viracocha, formed humans from clay on his second attempt at creating living creatures. [41] The Aymaran creation myth involves the making of humans from clay. [28]

  4. Ages of Man - Wikipedia

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    The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation. Both Hesiod and Ovid offered accounts of the successive ages of humanity, which tend to progress from an original, long-gone age in which humans enjoyed a nearly divine existence to the current age of the writer, in ...

  5. Prometheus - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Prometheus (/ p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Προμηθεύς, [promɛːtʰéu̯s], possibly meaning "forethought") [1] is one of the Titans and a god of fire. [2] Prometheus is best known for defying the Olympian gods by taking fire from them and giving it to humanity in the form of technology, knowledge and ...

  6. List of Greek mythological figures - Wikipedia

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    It was once held that Dionysius was a later addition to the Greek pantheon, but the discovery of Linear B tablets confirm his status as a deity from an early period. Bacchus was another name for him in Greek, and came into common usage among the Romans. [7] His sacred animals include dolphins, serpents, tigers, and donkeys.

  7. Ancient Greek religion - Wikipedia

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    All significant deities were visualized as "human" in form, although often able to transform themselves into animals or natural phenomena. [5] While being immortal, the gods were certainly not all-good or even all-powerful. They had to obey fate, known to Greek mythology as the Moirai, [6] which overrode

  8. Golden Age - Wikipedia

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    Plato in Cratylus (397 e) recounts the golden race of humans who came first. He clarifies that Hesiod did not mean literally made of gold, but good and noble. In classical Greek mythology, the Golden Age was presided over by the leading Titan Cronus; [3] in Latin authors it was associated with the god Saturn. [4]

  9. Protoplast (religion) - Wikipedia

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    A protoplast, from ancient Greek πρωτόπλαστος (prōtóplastos, "first-formed"), in a religious context initially referred to the first human [1] or, more generally, to the first organized body of progenitors of humankind (as in Manu and Shatrupa or Adam and Eve), or of surviving humanity after a cataclysm (as in Deucalion or Noah).