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Gaokerena, was a mythic Haoma plant that had healing properties and gave immortality to the resurrected bodies of the dead when eaten.(Persian mythology) Hungry grass (also Féar Gortach), a patch of cursed grass which causes perpetual and insatiable hunger. (Irish mythology)
Indore G.P.O. commonly known as G.P.O. or G.P.O. colony is a residential locality [citation needed] within the largest city and commercial hub Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Rivers are a fundamental part of the topography of the underworld and are found in the earliest source materials: [12] In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; [13] in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, describes there being many "great rivers and appalling streams", and reference is made to at least ...
Survey of mythic history Phaedra with an attendant, probably her nurse, a fresco from Pompeii , c. 60 – c. 20 BC 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.
The canopic chest personified as seen in the Papyrus of Ani Canopic chests had an important place in Egyptian culture. Canopic chests contained the internal organs ( viscera ) of mummies, so they relate to the Egyptian belief that the afterlife is just as important as life on earth.
Prometheus Bound also includes two mythic innovations of omission. The first is the absence of Pandora 's story in connection with Prometheus' own. Instead, Aeschylus includes this one oblique allusion to Pandora and her jar that contained Hope (252): "[Prometheus] caused blind hopes to live in the hearts of men."
The name "Gigantes" is usually taken to imply "earth-born", [6] and Hesiod's Theogony makes this explicit by having the Giants be the offspring of Gaia (Earth). According to Hesiod, Gaia, mating with Uranus, bore many children: the first generation of Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hundred-Handers. [7]
Amphion and Zethus. Amphion (/ æ m ˈ f aɪ. ɒ n / (Ancient Greek: Ἀμφίων, romanized: Amphíōn)) and Zethus (/ ˈ z iː θ ə s /; Ζῆθος Zēthos) were, in ancient Greek mythology, the twin sons of Zeus (or Theobus) [2] by Antiope.