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The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos
(Christian mythology/Jewish mythology) Golden apple, an element that appears in various national and ethnic folk legends or fairy tales. Peaches of Immortality, consumed by the immortals due to their mystic virtue of conferring longevity on all who eat them. (Chinese mythology)
Below table gives a reference on what component of the human body is associated with these elements. Each of the five fingers in humans is also associated with a particular element, so this means the energy associated with the appropriate element can be channelized through various hand mudras .
Wuxing was first translated into English as "the Five Elements", drawing deliberate parallels with the Greek arrangement of the four elements. [10] [8] This translation is still in common use among practitioners of Traditional Chinese medicine, such as in the name of Five Element acupuncture. [11] However, this analogy is misleading.
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Damysus (Δάμυσος), the fastest of all the Giants in Greek mythology. Enceladus (Ἐγκέλαδος), typically slain by Athena, said to be buried under Mount Etna in Sicily. Mimas (Μίμας), according to Apollodorus, he was killed by Hephaestus, or by others Zeus or Ares.
In contrast, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss examined the structure of a myth in terms of the abstract relationships between its elements, rather than their order in the plot. In particular, Lévi-Strauss believed that the elements of a myth could be organized into binary oppositions (raw vs. cooked, nature vs. culture, etc.).
The Paracelsian concept of elementals draws from several much older traditions in mythology and religion. Common threads can be found in folklore, animism, and anthropomorphism. Examples of creatures such as the Pygmy were taken from Greek mythology. The elements of earth, water, air, and fire, were classed as the fundamental building blocks of ...