What Is The Origins Of Ursa Major And Minor In Roman Mythology

Zeus and Jupiter have many traits in common. An interesting fact about Greek and Roman Mythology is that many Roman Gods were inspired by Greek Gods and were just given a different name. This means that Jupiter is the equivalent to Zeus in Roman mythology. Both Gods are the King of the Gods for their type of mythology. Both are the rulers of the skies, thunder, law and order, and fate. Their duty was to protect the Earth and the people on it. They both also have brothers who are the rulers of the underworld. Their father’s deaths is what caused them to become King of the God’s. They both also share the same symbol which is the thunderbolt. The thunderbolt is also

Hercules, born of Alcmena and Zeus, was conceived when Zeus took the form of Alcmena’s husband and lay with her. Her true husband lay with her again later that night and she conceived twins. One would be born to her human husband, and the other fathered by Zeus himself (Hamilton). Zeus bragged about his soon to be born son alerting and infuriating Hera to Hercules existence. Hera was notorious for tormenting her husbands’ illegitimate offspring since she couldn’t harm Zeus outright for his infidelity (Hamilton). Hera persuaded Eileithyia to slow Alcmena’s labor in a fit of piqué, almost killing her (Hamilton). Alcmena in fear of Hera’s wrath gave her son to nature. Zeus (in some accounts Hermes) stole him away to Olympus, where he suckled at Hera’s breast while she lay sleeping, granting him immortality (McLeish). When Hera awoke during the suckling she pushed Hercules away and the milk that sprayed out formed the Milky Way (Leeming). Zeus took the infant and placed him back in his crib before departing to Olympus again. Enraged Hera sent two massive serpents to kill Hercules and his brother as they lay sleeping

Individuals are not always aware of their own false perceptions, and an individual’s assumption about what will happen may not always come true. In Hesiod’s myth The Castration of Uranus and the Birth of Aphrodite, he tells of what happens after Cronus castrates Uranus: “When first he had cut off the genitals… and cast them from the land on the swelling sea… white foam arose about from the immortal flesh and in it a maiden grew” (M&L, p73). When Gaia asked for her children’s help, she expected that no more children would be conceived so that they would not be stashed inside her, as Uranus had repeatedly done. Cronus’s castration of his father instead resulted in the creation of Aphrodite without Gaia’s involvement whatsoever. The latent content manifested itself in two different forms – the castration of Uranus and the creation of another child. Later on in the myth, Hesiod also discusses this mysterious child: “And she emerged a dread and beautiful goddess… among human beings and the immortal gods she wins as her due the whispers of girls, smiles, deceits, sweet pleasure, and the gentle delicacy of love” (M&L, p73). The nature of Aphrodite’s conception does not give anyone an indication of her nature. Being created from a discarded bodily appendage would not logically create a goddess of love and sex. The only logical way to

In contrast to the father, the mother had a connection with their children, often leading to an overthrow of the husband. This materialistic love is easily shown in the myth of Demeter and Persephone. “ The joy of Demeter’s eternal lifetime was her daughter, Persephone, whom she had borne to Zeus “ ( Rosenberg Demeter 94). After Persephone was taken away, Demeter became infuriated and even “ withdrew her life sustaining powers,.. she broke the plows, killed oxen, and caused the earth to shrivel” ( Rosenberg Demeter 96). Seen from Demeter’s reaction to the situation, the bond between mother and child was very strong compared to that of the father. When Persephone returns, she takes comfort in her mother rather than her father. Children usually took the mother’s side and went against their father’s will. In the creation myth of the Greeks, there were two generations in which the mother wanted to protect her children from the grasps of the father. Gaea was afraid of what Uranus would do to their fearful children, and sought to protect them ( Rosenberg Creation 86). The wives of Cronus and Uranus both schemed the overthrow of their husbands,

In Greco-Roman Culture, humans imagine the deities of mythology to be and act certain ways, due to the needs they must fill. People invented certain deities for reasons that align with what they needed from them. To examine how a deity has a certain purpose, one must first examine what they are like. Athena and Ares are examples of deities invented for very specific purposes. One must first look at Athena and Ares’ similarities and differences in relation to their characteristics, their sexuality and physical appearances, as well as their different powers and how they are worshipped, to discover why they were created.

In many cultures there are flood myths that normally pertain to angered Gods who release their anger by flooding the world to cleanse whatever caused the anger in the first place. In the Roman culture, one of the flood myths mentioned states that Jupiter had been angered by the evil that came with humanity and had wanted to burn the Earth. However, Jupiter had feared by doing so Heaven would be set ablaze as well and thus, with Neptune's help, flooded the Earth. The hero Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha had been the only two to survive. Jupiter had recognized their religious lifestyle had let them live and retracted the flood. Deucalion and Pyrrha had then repopulated the world by throwing stones behind them. In the Murato culture, there is a myth in which a man had been fishing in a lagoon of the Pastaza river, a crocodile had swallowed the fisherman’s bait and the man killed the crocodile. The mother of crocodiles had been angered by this and had slashed the water with her tail creating a flood in the area and drowning everybody except for one man who had climbed up a palm tree. After the flood had subsided the man climbed down from the tree, cut off a piece of his flesh, planted it in the soil, and had grown a woman. He had then married the woman and begun to repopulate the world.

However, Uranus was afraid that Cronus might overpower him and one day obtain all his power. Knowing this Uranus purposely tried to kill Cronus in multiply occasions, but Gaea would always protect him. One day Gaea and Cronus made a plan to have Cronus challenge Uranus and take over his power. So it happened, Cronnus challenged his father and was victorious during their battle and Uranus was left to rot (Bernard 1) "Now Cronus had become king of gods by killing his father Uranus” (Bernard 3). In both Greek and Roman Mythology, the relationship between parents and children are distorted, strained, and bizarrely transformed, because of their greediness for power and obsessiveness to be better than the other.

Aphrodite was known for having many love affairs. She had an arranged marriage, set up by Zeus, with Hephaestus, the ugliest of the gods. Her true love was Ares, the god of war and violence. Hephaestus knew of the affair and to get back at her, he humiliated her in front of all the gods by setting a trap for the lovers. When the two were about to make love, they were scooped up into a net where all the gods could witness her betrayal. Ares and Aphrodite conceived many children: Eros being the most famous. He is also known as Cupid. (“Aphrodite History”)

Jupiter and Neptune eliminated all of mankind because they did not actively worship the gods or remain true to the laws of the gods. Ovid advocates the active participation of the gods in the physical world; so, at this point the supernatural and the physical become intertwined. The Roman gods and humans have a definite connection to one another. They are very similar in making and reacting to situations, however, they still retain a quite different nature as the gods are immortal and humanity is mortal. In fact, the gods actively participate in the occurrences on earth and thusly help to explain natural phenomena.

Both Kojiki and Greek mythologies describe common belief in the creation of the world, in which gods give birth to another to form the world. In Kojiki, two of the seven gods who came into existence, Izanagi and Izanami give birth to many nature deities, creating the world. But because Izanami gives birth to too many deities, she dies while giving birth to the fire deity. In result of her death, enraged Izanagi kills the fire deity. In contrast, Greek myth describes the creation of the world with the four gods who came to existences, Gaea (earth) Chaos, Tartarus (Hell), and then Eros. Gaea asexually gives birth to Uranus (Sky) and marries her son. She then bears three types of gods; the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecathonchires. However, Uranus repels at the monstrous creatures and sends Cyclopes and Hecatonchires down to Tartarus (Hell). Frustrated by Uranus’s action, Gaea forges the first sickle, gives it to her youngest son Cronos, and have him punish his father, Uranus. Once Uranus returns to make love to Gaea, Cronos emasculates him. Here we see the similarities in the creation of the world by birth and death of God by the hands of another god with fury.

In the Roman literature, it illustrated the myth that Pluto stole Proserpine’s innocence due to effects of cupid’s arrow sent by Venus. Through an analytical perspective, Ovid illustrated Venus as the goddess who too wanted the unification of the three cosmos for extension of power “why should hell lag behind? Why not there too extend your mother’s empire and your own?” (Met., p. 110) and being the goddess of sexuality and not having the power to tamper with the virginities of Pallas and Diana but Proserpine, she planned to “kill two birds with one stone” by summoning her son Cupid to shoot an arrow through Pluto’s heart “against his and shot the barbed shaft deep in Pluto’s heart” (Met., p. 111) to take away Proserpine’s virginity followed by her

Kallisto (Callisto) was a handmaiden of the goddess whom Zeus seduced by assuming her form. When Artemis discovered the girl was pregnant she transformed her into a bear and exiled her to the wilds. <>

The twelve main gods include: Jupiter the god of the sky and the thunder, Juno the queen of the gods and the patron of goddess, Minerva the goddess of wisdom, arts, trade, and strategy. Neptune the god of the sea, earthquakes, and water, Venus the goddess of love, beauty and fertility, Mars the god of war, Apollo the god of light, music, and the truth, Diana the goddess of the hunt, the moon, and birth or fertility, Vulcan the god of fire, the volcanoes, and the heat, Vesta the goddess of the hearth and Rome, Mercury the messenger of the gods, and Ceres the goddess of agriculture. These gods and goddesses promote health and welfare to the people of the Roman Empire while also watching over them. The Gods and Goddesses were also celebrated in there ways of art as seen in “sculpture” (Ingres Minerva, “Work Athena Known as the Ingres Minerva”) of the roman goddess minerva. The gods and goddesses are important to the Roman Empire because the gods influenced all of their decisions and how they look at life. The religion that the Romans believed in made the society stronger because it promoted morals in the citizens. They believed the society would remain strong because they were going to use the same religious morals and values that were used by their ancestors. They were going to be good stewards by doing good things for others. As a result, the citizens of Rome would get blessed by the gods for keeping them

During these ancient times there were extraordinary stories. That were pasted on about the powerful Gods, who were worshipped for the role they had. The most popular God that we have heard of is the mighty and gigantic Zeus. Stories told by great storytellers that are about Greek Gods and their relationships. With the Greeks have been made into wonderful movies, which have been seen across the big screen. A Greek God that has been portrayed more on the big screen is Zeus. Nevertheless, Zeus is a popular God. Even though Zeus is more popular. Jupiter a Roman God is still comparable to Zeus in having a higher rank like him. Zeus and Jupiter have lots of similarities, but they also have differences. Their differences are they both have different names, they have different origins, storytellers, and other than being the God of the Sky Jupiter was also the God of Light and Victory, when Zeus was not. As a result, Jupiter protected the state of war maintaining its peace and

Zeus fell in love with a Greek woman named Alcmene, and impregnated her. When the wife of Zeus, Hera, found out she tried to prevent the birth of the child. Hera could not stop the birth, and the child was named Hercules, which means “glorious gift to Hera” in Greek. Hercules was a demi-god because of one human parent and one god parent. Hera tried to kill the baby by placing snakes in his crib, butt the child strangled the snakes before they could kill him. Hera wanted to get revenge on Zeus by making Hercules life miserable.