i am 13 years old and have read all the books by rick riordan. i was wonderng if the gods in the greek mythology where real. i am creative,wise,inventive, and have a "powerfull" voice. ifu think the greek gods were real please say who ur godly parent is or who mine might be
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People who argue that the Greek gods aren't real simply because the bible says otherwise are overly stubborn. Nobody knows for sure until they die and go to the next life. If people want to worship Zeus or Poseidon let them be, don't argue about it and use the bible against it. Who wrote the bible? A human. The possibility of that human even seeing the events the bible describes are so low so don't trust the bible so much. Who knows.. maybe Zeus is the god of all and his family rule over our world. Nobody will know until they have lived their lives.
I know that you saw some of these greek gods on TV. in comic books and we are taught in schools. Now the greeks belived in these gods. Origin of Gods and Goddesses. The striking similarity readily observable when comparing the gods and goddesses of ancient peoples can hardly be attributed to chance. Concerning this, J. Garnier writes: “Not merely Egyptians, Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Greeks and
Romans, but also the Hindus, the Buddhists of China and of Thibet, the Goths, Anglo-Saxons, Druids, Mexicans and Peruvians, the Aborigines of Australia, and even the savages of the South Sea Islands, must have all derived their religious ideas from a common source and a common centre. Everywhere we find the most startling coincidences in rites, ceremonies, customs, traditions, and in the names and relations of their respective gods and goddesses.”—The Worship of the Dead, London, 1904, p. 3.
hey i'm Annabel an i"m 14 years old.
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yes i'm thinking their real because you can't just make it up. I also read the books of rick Riordan, but i also have read other books without fantasy, and maybe as you read in non-fiction books you can come after thinks you never know and its also interesting, but you must not really get in the book because then you lost the reallity and you go fantasy over that, and i'm am saying this because i have experience wit it because i had it too, you have go af it but it don't saying that you don't have too believe in them anymore.
I am a believer and believe strongly in the Greek, Roman and Egyptian also many other gods. I think that if a god or gods were real wouldn't all the others be? But then if they were alive wouldn't monsters e.g titans be real too? I think my godly parent would be Hades or Poseidon.
There are reasons why we don't believe in the Greek gods. Upon looking at everyone's answers, you will notice that almost everyone who says that they believe in the Greek gods use a lowercase "G," indicating the fact that they do not exist. They practically proved themselves wrong on their mission to prove their existence. There is no proof that they exist. In fact, they do not exist. If they did, we would all be dead. In Greek mythology, (Key word-MYTH) the gods were very immachure. They got drunk often, tried to kill one another, and slept with humans. Zeus also strapped, I think it was Prometheus to a rock overlooking a cliff to be devoured by crows. His liver would be eaten and the pain would never end. Zeus did this to him because he gave fire to human beings. Zeus and Poseidon, according to myth, also flooded the entire world because they were mad. In mythology, when an Athenian or Spartan would forget to give an offering, they would be punished. Demeter killed millions simply because they didn't give her grain. Today, almost no one gives offerings, so if the gods did exist-everyone would be severely punished. Plus-there are no records of a god coming and sleeping with a human.
I believe they are yes. My mother has told me that my father looked as though he could control the water and that he would hold his breath for so long that it was as though he could breathe under water. I have these same traits. Breathing underwater was a stretch in the book, but holding your breath for a long time would be more accurate. My mother truly believed that I was the daughter of Poseidon, and I believe her. Your godly relative sounds like it could be Athena, goddess of wisdom.
I think yes. Based on what you said, almost certainly Athena. I am a daughter of Apollo and if you really got to know me, even though i am young, you would be able to tell. in every single way. eek, now i am blabbing. bhtw don't you really like the books? i still am waiting for the burning maze to come out.
Here are some hints that I am working with....."The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased. In some cultures, it is related to beliefs that the dead have a continued existence, and may possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living."
"(Ancestor worship), prevalent in preliterate societies, is obeisance to the spirits of the dead. Fetishism, the veneration of objects believed to have magical or supernatural potency, springs from the association of spirits with particular places or things and leads to idolatry." ...even today in America, Tupac Shakur, Bruce Lee... people do not want to believe they are dead... "they faked their death"...they will return. 2,000 years ago the heroes ascended into heaven. Some lovers can never accept that their lover has left the relationship or they are consumed by grief in death...I'm working on the human evolution clue: hunter/gather transitions to farmer... men hunted and went to war...women stayed with the children, gathered fruits, made clothes.... stayed more stationary... just as the Tobacco crop gave life to Jamestown in America.... The Olive Tree Crop may have been managed by a woman named Athena, giving her high status and glorification. The Legends tell of Zeus trying to assassinate her from jealousy, as it what said she would rule over all Gods. It was said that Prometheus rescued her... he was known for bringing fire to the common people against Zeus's orders. Athena's nick name was Nike meaning Victory to the People... and it was her City...Athens, that gave birth to Democracy (a government by the people) the cradle of all Western Civilization. She is known as Goddess of Wisdom translated from German to mean Knowledge, Scientific etc... Her being known for the Olive Tree...I am not sure it is just coincidence that the Hebrews said not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and that their God was a jealous god, and that they wanted to forbid Idolatry, the worship of the Statues venerating the gods and goddess', quite possibly Greece's' ancestors. Subsequently from Hebrew/Christian traditions women have been subjugated under Patriarchy. The greatest city in the western world... and the story of Athena is rarely told. The city of Troy was thought to be myth, but we recently found the city, and they have had extensive archaeological excavations. The beginnings of Athens is estimated to be as little as 500 years before Troy. Athena known also for Defensive War like the walls of Troy... reading about the Olive Tree Crop, it has to be guarded and preserved for 10 years before the tree bears fruit. It takes extraordinary knowledge in a time of little writing to know the patience of waiting for harvest over a period of 10 years. Aren't women known for being the gender of patience?
When i was your age, I loved Greek mythology and read as much as I could.
Now, as to the the question if the Gods and Goddess' of Greek myth actually existed, in a sense it could be argued that they still live today.
Greek religion/myth incorporated the world in which we live in. For example, civilization and civilized man are Apollo, and why he is considered the greatest of the Gods by a philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, in his work 'The Birth of Tragedy'. Apollo's counterpart is argued to be Dionysus, or man in a drunken ecstasy, separate from civilization. Dionysus is also the aspect of man who suffers alone from tragedy. He is the God of Wine and Divine Revelry.
As for me, I like to think Pallas Athena has me in her thoughts. As for a mother, I'd hope Hestia looks on me as a son, as well as Persephone, explaining why my thoughts are focused away from most others my age.
Keep reading Greek Mythology. Look at your own personality honestly, and see which God or Goddess you admire and traits you may have in common with them.
Don't let people tell you you're wrong for thinking Greek myth may be true, and that Jesus is salvation. I have heard it many times here on the internet from religious zealots who know less of the Bible than I do, and act less of a Christian than myself. The Western world in which we live has been created from Hellenism (Greek lifestyle) and the Christian religion. We are more Greek than most realize. Even college professors readily admit this as fact.
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How long can you hold your breath? A normal person has the quality to be able to hold his or her breath for up to ten minutes. Navy seals do it all the time. Most people "can't" because they haven't trained their bodies to do so. Greek gods and godesses are fake. The Greeks told these myths because they didn't understand why certain things happened, so they'd blame it on the "gods"