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Mythology Around the World
Mythology Origins
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Once believed to be true
Have existed for thousands of years
Helped explain
 World’s
mysteries
 Human nature
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Olympian
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12 gods and goddesses
 Related
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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
• God of the
Sun
Ra
Nut
Osiris
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• Ordered
the world
• God of the
underworld
Aztec
•
God
of
the
Huitzilopochtli
sun
Coatlicue
• Goddess of
the Earth
•
God
of
Quetzalcoati
learning
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