Demeter

=Demeter =

__Introduction __Hello, my name is Demeter. I am the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. I am the goddess of the harvest and could be called the "Newer Mother Earth" or goddess of the foods. I have a few children, but not many. A couple are Persephone and Dionysus. I am not widely celebrated, but when I am, the celebrations are huge. I am one of the Twelve Olympians, by the way, we really don't like Cronus, he ate most of us. It was terrifying. Then, Zeus being the youngest, convinced us gods to fight the Titans and Hephaestus gave Zeus the all-mighty lightning bolt. Zeus struck the Titans with the bolt and defeated them and they went to Tartarus. That is when we all determined what powers we would have.

Myth About Me = = So, I have a daughter named Persephone. She is a sweet immortal girl. One day, she was out picking flowers when she saw the Narcissus flower. Just as she was picking the flower, Hades was struck with a love arrow. After Eros struck him, Hades saw my daughter and fell in love with her. He stole her and took her to the Underworld. I didn't notice that she was missing until a few hours later. I went looking for Persephone for nine days until I went to Zeus. He didn't help me so I went to Gaea and she promised she would help. When Zeus became worried about human-kind, he had Hades return Persephone to me, and the season called Spring began.

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Comic Life

The myth of Hercules is taught or explained in many different ways. Hercules has become the factors of many different stories and movies. One of the many movies is the Walt Disney version. This movie is just an example as to how myths or stories change being told by word of mouth, or just being written. The story-tellers of this myth have sometimes changed the explanations to some of the topics to make the story sound more modern day. Making a story sound like it just happened a few years ago can cause people to believe that the story was real. Then again, the words change in order to comfort children who are learning the myth. Words don’t necessarily make a myth better, they just make stories sound real, or make them sound make-believe. Hercules is a mixture of real words and make-believe; this gives people something to relate to and something to fear. This includes the fears of the creatures, and the cruel or nicer gods. The fact that Hercules was the son of Zeus enforces the belief of power in the myth because being the son of a god causes him to have more power than other people. Words can also lead to music and even a fashion style depending on the inspiration gathered from the version told. The following essay will be a comparison to the Disney movie, and the myth told many years ago. The essay will also compare the topics of his childhood, relationships with gods, and the creatures in between. Hercules grew up with in the palace of Thebes because his mother was royalty. She was Alcmene, Princess of Thebes. This is the myth version. In the movie, Hercules is born of Zeus and Hera, but Hades caused him to go to Earth. Alcmene and her husband found Hercules on a mountain ridge. In both the myth and the movie, Hercules is raised by Alcmene. Hercules ended up strangling the two serpents, but in the movie, they are sent by Hades, where in the myth, they were sent by Hera. Hercules grew up as an important figure in the myth. But, in the movie, people made fun of him and he was wimpy. Either way, he couldn’t control his strength. In the movie, as Hercules grew older, he began to wonder where he belonged, he knew he was abnormal. Then again, Alcmene never told him that he was found or that he was found with a godly medal around his neck, they treated him like he was their own. The myth tells us how Hercules was born of Alcmene but wasn’t treated normally, he was treated like royalty and not because his mother was royalty but because people knew that he had a special quality. Hercules was never found with a medal around his neck either. The myth also tells us that when Hercules was in a music class one day, he killed his music teacher and was considered dangerous and was banished to the mountains. In the movie, he went to the mountains alone to go to the temple of Zeus to find out who his parents really were. Hercules didn’t always get along with the gods and that wasn’t something to be proud of. This was in both the movie and the myth. In the movie, Hera was his mother. In the myth, Hera is mad at the fact that Zeus had a child with another woman (who was Alcmene) so she wanted him dead. In the movie, Hercules and Hades don’t get along. In the myth, Hera and Hercules aren’t the best of friends. One thing that is the same about the movie and the myth is that Hades and Hera both tried to kill him. The only difference about that is the fact that Hades sent up his minions named Panic and Pain to kill him. When they did this, they turned into serpents, much like how Hera actually sent serpents down to Earth to kill him. Either way, Hercules strangled them. Hercules and Zeus didn’t have much communication in the myth, but in the movie, they would talk to each other whenever Hercules went to Zeus’s temple. In the movie, the creators make Hades seem more mean than he really is. Hades really has nothing to do with Hercules in the myth other than the fact that he was his uncle. In the movie, they make Hades seem like a man with power who wanted to overthrow his brother and release the Titans so they can work for him. The only thing that stood in the way was Hercules. Hercules was the only man that could ever defeat a god or goddess. That is why Hades wanted to kill him. Any myth can tell you that the gods wanted nothing to do with the Titans because there would be another war. Myths can also tell you that Hades may have had a problem with the fact that he wasn’t the “ruler” of the gods, but weren’t they all jealous? So, bottom line is Hades would most likely never have wanted to overthrow Zeus.