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The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes. A temple would house the statue of a god or goddess, or multiple deities, and might be decorated with relief scenes depicting myths. Divine images were common on coins. Drinking cups and other vessels were painted with scenes from Greek myths.
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 The Void
Odin, god of wisdom who nevertheless relentlessly keeps searching for more knowledge; associated with the runes; Frigg, she is said to know the future, but never tells. The three following goddesses may be hypostases of her. Gefjon, goddess associated with plowing, foreknowledge, and virginity. Sága, goddess of wisdom
List of Norse gods and goddesses; Greek deities (see also List of Greek mythological figures, Twelve Olympians, Greek hero cult, Family tree of the Greek gods, Mycenaean gods, Hellenismos) Neoplatonic triad; Hungarian deities; Lusitani deities; Paleo-Balkan deities (Dacian/Illyrian/Thracian) List of Roman deities; Sami deities; Slavic deities ...
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
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.
List of deities by classification; Lists of deities by cultural sphere; List of fictional deities; List of goddesses; List of people who have been considered deities; see also Apotheosis, Imperial cult and Sacred king; Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions
an old woman who jested with Demeter while the goddess was mourning the loss of Persephone Baucis: Βαυκίς a virtuous old woman whose hospitality the gods rewarded Bianna: Βίαννα a Cretan woman who migrated to Gaul and disappeared in a chasm of the earth Bienor: Βιήνωρ the name of several mythological figures Biston: Βίστων