Christianity indoctrins from Greek mythology: ('There is the filth of Daedalus in every myth'). The knowledgeable Sudès considered the image of Daedalus to be in line with Pacific's 'evil interest' in the bull that Poseidon had conjured up: "Since the origin and faults of these demons were attributed to Daedalus, and he hated them, he became the protagonist of the Proverbs. 」

The Mycenaean civilization, discovered by the legendary German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann in the 19th century, and the Minoan civilization in Crete, discovered by the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in the 20th century, provide explanations for a large number of questions about Homer's epic poems, as well as archaeological evidence for many mythological details about gods and heroes.

Unfortunately, the Mycenaean and Minoan manuscripts of the immortal evidence of myths and rituals, the hand scroll of the linear script B, was mainly used to record the inventory, although many of the names of gods and heroes appear in them.

Many of the geometric designs of pottery from the 8th century BC are based on the siege of Troy or the adventures of Hercules.

The importance of the visual representation of these myths is shown in two ways: first, many Greek myths appear on pottery much earlier than written records, such as the twelve exploits of Hercules, only the capture of Cerberus alive is written at the same time as pottery, and the other written accounts are later than pottery paintings, and second, pottery designs sometimes even depict myths or scenes that are not written.

Sometimes the first-hand record of a myth comes from geometric art, and when it appears in a written record. It's often centuries later.

During the Archaic period (c. 750 to 500 BC), the Classical Greek period (c. 480 to 323 B.C.), and the Hellenistic period (c. 323 to 146 B.C.), Homeric and many other mythological scenes emerged, which are confirmed by written records.

Greek mythology has evolved over time to accommodate its cultural evolution. In the written record of Greek mythology, when Greek politics changed, it was also the end of an era of Greek mythology.

The early inhabitants of the Balkans were animistic agrarian peoples who believed that any natural phenomenon had a corresponding soul. Eventually, these souls, without concrete images, were personified, and gradually became the gods of local mythology.

When the tribes of the northern Balkans invaded the entire Balkan Peninsula, they brought with them at the same time the conquest of representatives of their pantheon. Force. The god of heroic and violent heroism.

The gods of the other agricultural realms were conquered by these more powerful gods, and became their subordinate gods or were completely replaced.

After the middle of the Archaic period, there were more and more myths about the connection between male gods and male heroes, which represented the development of male homosexuality in ancient Greece. It was probably popular in 630 B.C.

End of the 5th century BC. Mentioned in the poem. Every male god (except Ares) has at least one adolescent boy as their male companion, and many legendary heroes have similar male companions.

Early myths, such as those about Achilles and Patroclus. Similar episodes are mentioned.

First the poets of Alexandria, and then the mythologists of the early Roman Empire, were inclined to portray characters from Greek mythology in this way.

The achievement of the epic lies in the creation of the entire storyline and the development of a new mythological chronicle. Thus, Greek mythology actually presents the process of the world and the development of mankind.

Since some of the contradictions in these stories do not allow one to get a complete timeline, only a rough chronicle can be discerned from them. Thus, the mythical 'history of the world' can be roughly divided into three or four epochs:

1. The myth of origin or the age of the gods ("Genealogy of the Gods", "The Birth of the Gods"): the origin myth of the world, the gods and mankind;

2. The era of free mixing of gods and humans: the story of the early interaction between gods, demigods and humans;

3. In the Heroic Age, the activities of the gods became more restricted. The last and greatest heroic saga is the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath (some researchers divide it into a separate era).

Because the mythology of the previous period was more focused on the study of the age of the gods, the Greek writers of the Archaic and Classical periods preferred the age of heroes, and they established chronicles and records of human achievements after receiving explanations for the formation of the worldly realm.

For example, the heroic epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey dwarf the absolute power of the gods. Under Homer's influence, the 'cult of heroes' became an important component of spiritual life, manifested in the separation of the realm of the dead (heroes) from the realm of the gods, that is, from Mount Olympus.

In Work and Time, Hesiod divides the human century into five parts: gold, silver, bronze, heroes, and black iron.

These epochs were divided according to the products of the gods: the Golden Age was the reign of Cronus and the next was the reign of Zeus, Hesiodus installed the Heroic Age after the Bronze Age, and the last of all, the Black Iron Age, the age in which the poet himself lived, which he considered to be the darkest of the ages, because the demons brought by Pandora were rampant and hope was locked up in a pot.

In The Metamorphosis, Ovid follows Hesiod, who also divides the human era into four.

The age of the gods, the origin of the universe, and the philosophy of the universe, see also: Greek primordial gods, genealogies of Greek gods, and list of Greek gods and characters.

The 'Myth of Origin' or 'Creation Myth' is intended to depict the human concept of the universe and explain the origin of the world.

The most accepted version is Hesiod's description in the genealogy: the world began with Kaos, a chaotic concept, and then out of emptiness came Eurynome, Gaia (earth) and other major primordial gods: Eros (love), Tartarus (hell), and Erebos (darkness);

Gaia then split into Ouranos (the sky) and he became her husband, and they gave birth to the first generation of Titans, six males: Koos, Cleos, Kronos, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Okeanos, and six females: Nemothyne, Phauber, Rhea, Thea, Themis, and Thetis;

After the birth of Kronos, Gétas and Ouranos never gave birth to any Titans, after which three Cyclops and three Hundred-armed Giants were born, and Kronos ('the youngest, most cunning and most feared of the descendants of Géne') castrated his father and became the ruler of the gods and leader of all the other Titans, and his spouse was his sister Rhea.

The theme of the struggle between father and son reappears, this time with Kronos being overthrown by his own son Zeus. Because Kronos betrayed his father, Kronos lived in fear of his children, fearing that he would get the same result.

So whenever Rhea gave birth, he devoured his own children. Rhea hated him for doing so, and put a stone instead of Zeus in the cradle for Cronus to eat.

When Zeus became an adult, he gave Kronos an herb and told him to vomit out all the other children he had eaten. (Another theory is that Metis gave Kronos herbs and told him to spit out all his descendants, including Zeus.) Zeus challenged Kronos, who eventually seized the throne of the King of the Gods with the help of the Cyclops and imprisoned Kronos and the other Titans in Tartarus.

Zeus was tormented by the same fears, and when his first wife, Metis, prophesied that she would give birth to a 'god greater than himself,' Zeus devoured her.

Despite this, Metis was pregnant with Athena, and they made Zeus miserable until Athena, fully armed, flew out of Zeus's head and was ready for battle. (To be continued......)