Los Dioses Olímpicos

Mars or Plow

His woman Hera and Zeus's son. Bloodthirsty God of the war and violence. The personification of the sky of dark clouds. You were born in Thrace, notorious country for his storms and because his people loved the war. Generally you are represented using a brilliant framework, a helmet on his head a sword in a hand and a shield in the other one. According to some versions, you had a twin sister, Eris ( discord ). United with Afrodita, you had 4 children: Eros ( Cupid ), Fobos ( fear ), Deimos ( terror ) and Harmonía. Also you had more different mothers' children, some of them music: Ascálafo, Diómedes, Cicno, Meleagro, Flegias, Alcipe, and Antero.

Jupiter or Zeus

Personification from above and all of the- phenomena of air, era the most prominent one of the Olympic deities: The other ones were required to submit to his will. Accused and Cronos's Son. When you were born, his mother avoided that his father devour it replacing it for a stone wrapped up in diapers. In order to conceal, Rea took it to the Monte Licea in Arcadia, with the nymphs Io and Adastrea, Amaltea's daughters, goat from it than you fed the child with his milk. Zeus's cradle was hung up of a tree, not even the sky did not find itself, neither at the land neither at sea. Cronos would not in this way find it. At a later time, Zeus would demonstrate his gratitude putting to Amaltea in the sky like the constellation of Capricorn, and one of his horns was represented like the cornucopia. When Cronos became aware of deceit and it disclosed its presence, you chased it but this escaped, his wet nurses turned into bears and he in snake.

You sent Metis, of the titans, in order that the cupbearer go from Cronos. This prepared a honey mixture for him, it came and something else, what Cronos vomited the stone with and to Zeus's brothers: Poseidon, Hades, Démeter, Hera and Hestia. Zeus started war against his father and the titans that you would last for ten years. His weapon, the ray the Cyclopses provided it themselves. At the end it expired, and you made yourself a worldly ruler.

You married Hera, his sister, and you had like children Hefesto with her and Ares; You generated Atenea with Metis; With Leto to Apolo and Artemisa; Dionisio was born of his union with Semele; You had Hermes with Maya; Once Mnemosine was bound you gave birth to the Muses; With Eurinome, to the three Thanks or Járites; You had to the stations with Temis or Horas and the three Fairies; You had Heracles with Alcmena ( Hércules, for the Romans ); You had Perseo with Dánae. Also you had uncountable mortal children.

His power is the thunder and its attribute the oak tree.

Venus or Aphrodite

Goddess of love and of beauty. According to some, the daughter comes from Zeus and Dione, the goddess of the humidity.

It grew from the foam of the sea and you get to in a great shell Citera's island, encouraged for Eolo, the wind, where it is received by the Hours and the 3 Thanks. These show her to the Monte Olimpo, where right now a throne waits for her. According to another versions, you were born when Cronos threw the remains mutilated of Uranus to the sea.

Surprised for his beauty, all gods expressed his desires to marry her, but they all were refused. Zeus, to punish her for his pride, the fact that you marry Hefesto did, the least favored of all of the gods.

However, Afrodita never demonstrated affection for her husband, but you put his attention in Ares, which rapidly corresponded to the goddess, having many secret encounters with her.

Plow you always were careful to put of guard his assistant Alectrión, in order to announce them in case somebody approached, and specially that you notice them when the sun be about to leave, since lovers were afraid that Apolo discover them.

Everything went according to they had planned it, until one day Alectrión fell asleep, so deeply that you did not find out when Aurora opened the Eastern doors and Apolo left in his carriage.

The sun god observed the asleep guardian and to the lovers in point. Immediately you got over to Hefesto and it told him what you had seen .

The furious husband did not waste time and put together a steel mesh, the one that you threw on Afrodita and Ares. Next you called for the rest of the gods in order that they see themselves. They were gods, but goddesses abstained for shame.

When at last they got free, Ares went away promising revenge against the guard, that still was asleep. Plow you woke him up brusquely and you turned it into a rooster, condemning it to give a warning every day of the way out of the sun.

Afrodita abandoned her husband and he had many children with Ares, among themselves Fobos, Deimos, ( according to some, these 2 were Hefesto 's children ) Harmonía and Cupid ( Eros, Amor ), who the god of Love was designated and remained with the figure of a small child, with white wings and face round.

Pluto or Hades

Accused and Cronos's Son. You received as part of the world the supervision of the Infernal Regions, placed below ground, and the dead's god was proclaimed.

This god inspired in the men great fear. You never were spoken to of him unless voice tremble to them and were praying constantemen stops you never to see its face. This because, when Hades appeared in earth era only upon quest of a victim to take to its abysmal kingdom. When you left in these expeditions, was doing it on a guided carriage pitch-black horses.

In order to warn that mankind enter, and to the spirits that they escape, Hades put like guardian in an enormous dog of three heads, the Dog Cerbero the entrance. From there, a very long underground passage, you took to the living room of the throne of Hades. They ran the rivers that were crossing the inferno to this throne's feet.

Neptune or Poseidon

God of the seas. Accused and Cronos's Son. When Zeus assigned a worldly portion to each one of his brothers, it decreed that Poseidón govern on all of the seas on the surface of the land. The titan Océano was who before took the scepter of the seas, but it was resigned oneself to allowing it Poseidon to.

Poseidon generally did not remain in the Olimpo, rather it stayed in coral's caves of its kingdom. With a word, you could calm or lighting a storm, and being done to that waves kick back furious in pacific places. Also you could cause terrible earthquakes and raiseeing islands where you did not have them.

Uranus

One belongs to the most ancient gods. He is the Titans' father. Cronos devours Uranus to his children, until I join of them,, mutilates him and you defeat him. The Nymphs and Giants are born of the drops of blood of mutilated Uranus. And of the foam accumulated around the mienbro cut and dumped to the sea, Afrodita is born .

Saturn or Cronos

You belong to the generation previous to the Olimpo's gods. One belonged to the twelve titans and the younger son of Uranus and of Gea, the personifications from above and land. Cronos defeated to Uranus and becoming the alderman of the universe.

In spite of his victory, Cronos needed his brother Titán's permission, first-born son of his parents, to reign. The ending of Cronos's power came with Zeus's birth and his defeat in front of him. Cronos, finally, installed in the Latium, next to the kind king Janus himself, instructing the town of this in various arts.

Cronos is image or the time's symbol, which is why you represent yourself as an old lean, sad and dry man that takes a sickle that he indicates in his hands than the time everything destroys it. Besides, possess a hourglass and you are supplied with wings. The fact of than gobble up also you stress that to his children the time destroys all of the existent enclosure in the fair moment to produce it. It could be told, that Cronos is the god of the time.