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