The Greeks had countless gods. They represented the force of nature.
Each has its function as an active force of nature.
If we say that Zeus represents storms with their rays and thunders, we cannot question whether or not we believe in Zeus, because storms exist, lightning falls, and thunder can be heard.
Unlike monotheistic religions, where there is only one God, a revealed word and a cult organized by different rites, the Greek gods are known through different texts such as the Iliad, the Odyssey, the theogony of Hesiod, Eudemo etc.
These gods had no ethical or moral objective of reality. This means that they did not leave a teaching that would serve to channel our lives.
There is no single and accepted truth, but we can find different versions of the same fact.
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Greece is a mountainous country surrounded by the sea.
The highest mountain in Greece is Mount Olympus. Its steep rock walls make it almost impossible to climb. So high is that you can hardly see the top, always surrounded by clouds.
There, on the top of Olympus had their palace the twelve most important gods of the Greeks. These, whimsical and quarreling, managed the lives of men at will, interfering in their lives and taking sides for one or the other.
The gods were immortal, that means they didn't die.
The palace was built like the palaces of kings. So he was very big and lavish. It had many departments for each of the gods to live comfortably and a hall where the Council met to discuss the problems of men: which army they would allow to win a battle or which King they would punish, but most of the time they fought and discussed among themselves.
The palace also had canteens, had no kitchen because the gods did not eat, they fed on ambrosia. There were also armaments rooms, rooms for servitude, stables for horses, kennels for hounds and even a zoo where they kept their sacred animals. These included a bear, a lion, a parrot, an eagle, tigers, a cow, a turtle, a ferret, white oxen, an owl, a deer, a stork, swans, mice and a pond full of fish.
Zeus was the most important of the twelve gods who inhabited Olympus.
Zeus was the son of Cronus and Rea.
Crono had married Rea even though she was his sister. Rea} had many children but the evil Crono ate them when they were born because he had heard that one of his sons would dethrone him.
At that time they also gave Poseidon the trident and Hades a helmet that made him invisible.
With these powerful weapons Zeus he reigned over mortals and immortals.
In the palace of Olympus Zeus had a throne of Egyptian marble inlaid with gold. To reach the throne, it was necessary to climb seven steps decorated in the colors of the rainbow. Above the throne was a blue cover to show that the sky belonged only to him. To his unfolded right was a steel eagle with rubies in his eyes. The throne was covered by a purple lambskin that he used to make rain in times of drought.
Zeus was strong, arrogant, capricious, violent and quite noisy. He could kill any enemy he wanted by throwing powerful lightning and accurate thunder at them. When he was angry, he could cause severe storms and floods that kept men restless.
Zeus had a thick hair with curlers and a curly beard. A crown of laurels girded his head. He wore his torso naked and a mantle covered his back Zeus could also be transformed into an animal or anything to get what he wanted.
Zeus's wife was called Hera. She had an ivory throne, right next to her husband with three crystal steps. The throne was decorated with golden birds and willow branches. The seat was covered by a white cowhide he used to make rain in times of drought if Zeus was in a bad mood and preferred not to be disturbed. A bright full moon hung above the throne swinging in the breeze. 
One spring it occurred to Zeus to turn into a poor frightened sparrow surprised by the storm and hit his window with his beak, Hera, who loved birds, taking pity on the poor sparrow allowed him to enter his room, he shook his wings and she gently grabbed him in his hands said to him: Poor little sparrow, I love you. Then Zeus changed his appearance again said unto him, Now thou shalt marry me.
Despite Zeus's bad behavior, Hera felt forced by circumstances to marry Zeus. He thus wanted to be a model for all other gods and mortals by becoming Mother of Heaven.
God of rivers, seas and oceans, also had an important throne of polished marble ornamented with corals, mother-of-pearl and gold. The arms of the throne were sculpted in the shape of dolphins heads.
Poseidon was Zeus's brother. Also son of Crono and Rea. Legend has it that Poseidon was saved from being swallowed by his father because Rea gave him a foal instead of his son and Crono ate it without realizing it.
Despite being the god of the seas, Poseidon never moved by boat. He used a carriage pulled by white horses.
Poseidon had a private palace under the sea, near Paxos. It was a lavish palace decorated with conchshells, corals, mother-of-pearl, stars, seahorses and inhabited by sea creatures that kept him company when he moved from one place to another.
Poseidon had that palace built for his beautiful wife Amphititre.
Poseidon was very but very ugly and Amphititre did not want him as a husband. When he proposed to him, he became so frightened that he went into the sea. But Poseidon sent some dolphins to bring her back. From that union was born a son, Triton. Triton had the head and half the body like men and the other half lengthened with the tail of a fish. Poseidon did not live all the time in the underwater palace, but moved when he needed rest or was irritated, then took his carriage and went into the depths of the sea until his rage passed.
Its emblem was the horse, still the huge waves are called white horses.
On the opposite side of Poseidon and near Hera was the throne of Demeter.
Demeter was the goddess of grains, edible fruits and pastures. She taught men the principles of agriculture: preparing the land for planting and harvesting to give up nomadic life.
Demeter was always sad. She smiled only once a year, during spring and summer, when her daughter Persephone visited her. She was so happy that she let all the vegetables grow and bear fruit. From there arise the seasons of the year.
Persephone was married to Hades, god of the dead, who had kidnapped her while watching a daffodil. While Persephone watched a daffodil, the earth opened and Hades kidnapped her, taking her with him to live under the earth in the darkness. Her mother looked for her for a long time trying to find her. He finally agreed with Hades that he would spend half his time with him and the other half with her.
That is why autumn and winter is associated with the time Persephone lives with Hades in the depths of darkness and spring and summer with the time Persephone spends with his mother, Demeter.
Demeter's emblem was the poppy growing among the wheat with its bright red color.
Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera. He was the ugliest of all gods. As he was born defective, Hera threw him over the wall but fell into the sea and saved himself. He saved himself from dying, but he hurt his leg and had to amputate it, and since then he used an iron leg as a prosthesis.
Hephaestus was very skilled for manual work. He was the god of goldsmiths, jewelers, masons and carpenters.
Hephaestus built all the thrones of the palace in his own workshop and his throne was a masterpiece of engineering because by means of a mechanism he could swing, bend and roll. He assembled it with all kinds of metals and precious stones.
Goddess of wisdom. It was the one that taught Hephaestus how to handle the tools he would then use to make so many beautiful objects.
She occupied a silver throne worked like a basket and decorated with a crown of lapis lazuli violets, a semi-precious stone.
Athena was not born of a woman but jumped out of Zeus's head as an adult and dressed in armor. It happened that Zeus swallowed his first wife, Metis being pregnant because he was told that if Metis had a child, he would dethrone him. After swallowing it, Zeus suffered terrible pains, so he allowed another god to open the head of an axe to see if he could get some relief and Athena came out of his head.
Zeus was caught by his daughter and allowed him to use his lightning and shield.
She wore beautiful armor but never went to war unless she felt obliged because she didn't like quarrels. If he fought, he always won.
His emblem was the owl. Your city, Athens. His tree, the olive tree.
Next to the throne of Athena was the throne of Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty and marriage.
The south wind found it floating on a seashell near the island of Cyprus and propelled it with the breeze towards the coast.
Zeus he gave his son Hephaestus his husband. Aphrodite did not agree with this decision because Hephaestus was ugly and limp and often betrayed him to Ares, the brother of Hephaestus.
When Hephaestus complained to Zeus, he replied that it was his fault for giving him the magic girdle. Aphrodite wore the magic girdle tight to her waist. Every time she wore the girdle, the men fell madly in love with her.
Aphrodite had many children but the best known was Eros, god of love who flew around, throwing arrows at men causing them to fall in love with the first person who came across him, without waiting, without wanting, and without wanting.
When someone falls in love, it is often said that they were arrowed.
He was born from the union of Zeus and Hera.
His horrible throne was built of solid bronze. In his arms were sculpted creepy skulls and the seat was covered in human skin.
Ares was rude, ignorant, and had terrible taste, but for Aphrodite it was wonderful and often used it to deceive her husband, Hephaestus, who was Ares's brother.
His emblems were a wild bear and a chilling spear stained with blood. The vulture and the dog are consecrated to Ares.
Despite his corpulence, he does not always stand well in the battles he undertakes.
Next to the throne of Ares was that of Apollo, the god of music, poetry, medicine, archery and young singles.
Apollo moved from one place to another in a carriage of swans.
His throne was tall and golden, with magical inscriptions carved on it. Its backrest was in the shape of a seven-string lyre, and on its seat was a python skin. Apollo killed python, a monstrous serpent ravaging an oracular cave in Delphi wreaking havoc between the population and the flocks. On his throne hung a disc with twenty-one rays shaped like an arrow, like a sun, because Apollo intended to handle the sun. Apollo's emblem was the mouse because mice were supposed to know the secrets of the earth.
Apollo got married many times. On one occasion, she chased a young woman named Daphne, she cried out to Mother Earth Gea for help, then helped her by turning her into an olive tree before Apollo could kiss her.
Apollo had a mansion in Delphi, where there was an oracle that stole from Mother Earth, Gea, Zeus's grandmother.
Artemis was Apollo's twin sister. Daughter of Zeus and Leto, another of Zeus' numerous wives.
His throne was built in pure silver. The backrest was shaped like palm trees and the seat was covered with fox fur.
Artemis hated marriage, but she liked to take care of mothers when their babies were born.
But much more liked to hunt, fish and swim in the moonlight in some pond. If a mortal saw her naked, then she turned him into a deer and had fun chasing him to death.
He participated in many adventures with his brother Apollo.
His favorite emblem was the most feared animal in all Greece, the bear.
He sat in the last row of the male gods. He was the son of Zeus and a younger goddess named Maya. From there derives the name of the month of May. He was born in Arcadia.
His throne was cut out of a single piece of gray marble. The armrests were shaped like ram heads and the seat was covered with a goat skin. On the back he had carved a great swastika, this was the symbol of a machine invented by Hermes to make fire. Before his invention the housewives spent much of the day trying not to put out the fire because they had to go to the house of their neighbors to find coals if it went out.
Hermes had a great capacity for inventiveness. He invented the lyre, a musical instrument he made with a turtle shell.
Hermes also invented the alphabet and one of his emblems was the crane, because it flies V-shaped and that's the first letter he wrote.
He wore a helmet with wings and sandals also with wings on the sides.
The last of the female goddesses was Zeus's elder sister. Daughter of Crono and Rea. Although we don't know how he saved himself from being eaten by his evil father.
It had a simple wooden throne and a simple pillow woven with wool.
She was the kindest and most peaceful of all gods as she was terribly disturbed by family discussions.
He had no emblems and did not participate in many myths.
When the Council of the Twelve Gods of Olympus was already integrated, Zeus, who was very capricious, decided that, as Dionysius had invented wine, he deserved to be a god.
Dionysus was one of the many sons of Zeus. His mother was a mortal named Sémele. He used a long cane called tirso, covered in ivy and with a pineapple on the tip. He used that cane once to kill a giant.
The throne of Dionysius, or Bacchus, was of wood covered with silver and gold. Decorated with clusters of amethyst grapes, a violet semi-precious stone. It also had carved snakes and many animals with horns in marbles of different colors.
His emblem was the tiger. It seems that on one of his numerous trips, he led an army of drunks and brought tigers as a souvenir.
Unbridled parties are known as bacchanales.
The gods were supposed to be twelve. By incorporating Bacchus, there would be thirteen and this number attracted bad luck and that was not possible. Then Hestia, who was a very peaceful goddess and enemy of discord, offered her her place.
Now the Council was uneven because there were seven male gods and five female goddesses. This was unfair because when they were to vote the male gods always won, but Zeus did not care.