Gods, goddesses, deities, heroes and weak men and women fighting for the overall good, monsters, cultures from an unknown world. These are the figures that bring chaos and control to the Greek person's. The oldest account of these gods and goddesses are from the Greek writer Homer, who wrote “The Illiad and Odyssey.” People believe that he was the one that created these gods and goddesses, but others believe that it was many different people that wrote different parts of the religion. The Greeks believed in a polytheistic religion, meaning they worshipped more than one god. These stories were told by word of mouth and put on pottery and other forms of artwork. All these god and goddesses are portrayed with human body, but with supernatural powers. These stories told depicted events that were happening at …show more content…
The story of the creation of the world and the gods in Greek culture begins with only chaos, by chaos the writer meant nothingness. Then Gaea appeared which was the earth being born. Her and her husband, Uranus the god of the sky decided to have children, and Gaea gave birth to the Cyclopes, Hecatoncheires and the Titans. Uranus did not like his children and imprisoned, then inside of Gaea’s womb. Gaea did not like this and wanted her children to be free, but all was too afraid to stand up to their father Uranus, except for Cronus. Cronus and his mother Gaea set up an ambush on Uranus by waiting till Uranus was having sex with Gaea and having Cronus castrate his father killing him. Rising from Uranus blood came Giants, Ash tree