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Mythology Around the World

GODS AND

GODDESSES

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Mythology Origins

Once believed to be true Have existed for thousands of years Helped explain

World’s mysteries Human nature

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Olympian

12 gods and goddesses Related to each other

Ruled world from Greece’s Mount Olympus

Romans adopted with new names Zeus is most powerful; married to Hera Aphrodite is goddess of love and beauty

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Egyptian

Ra

Nut

Osiris

• God of the Sun

• Ordered the world• God of the underworld

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Aztec

Huitzilopochtli

Coatlicue

Quetzalcoati

• God of the sun

• Goddess of the Earth

• God of learning