Every Greek God Explained in 11 Minutes

cronis the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses one of these deities was called Gaia which was Mother Earth and another one was called Uranus which was father Sky they gave birth to the second generation of gods called the 12 Titans the youngest of these Titans was cronis usually depicted with a sickle and considered the patron of the Harvest but Gaia and Uranus had even more children the 300H handed heires and the oneeyed cyclopes Uranus however hated them and hid them in Tartarus a deep Abyss that was used As a Dungeon of

torment and suffering for the Wicked This angered Gaia their mother who tried to make an alliance with her 12 children to castrate Uranus she created a great Stone sickle and gathered together all of the Titans but nobody wanted to do it except for cronis cronis ambushed his own father and castrated him he then threw his testicles and the sickle into the ocean which became Corfu the Greek island famous for having a sickle-like shape after Uranus was dethroned cronis and his older sister Ria took the throne of the world as king and queen the period in

which cronis ruled was called the Golden Age as the people of the time had no need for laws rules or work Gaia and oranus however had prophesied that cronis was going to be overthrown by one of his sons just like he did with Uranus this gave him paranoia and although he created them with Ria he devoured all five of his children as soon as they were born but one survived Ria secretly gave birth to a sixth Child Called Zeus and she wanted to get revenge for cronus's acts against his father and children Ria gave cronis

a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes which he promptly swallowed thinking that it was his son Zeus Zeus the sky and thunder God also known as the king of Gods was secretly raised when he grew up he used an edic given to him by Gaia to force cronis to disgorge the contents of his stomach in reverse order first the stone and then his two brothers and three sisters which were posidon Hades Hera Hestia and deer after freeing his siblings Zeus released the hundred-handed hecaton shires and the cyclopes who forged for him his Thunderbolts Poseidon's trident and

hades's Helm of Darkness a vast War called the Titan namaki broke out between Zeus with his siblings and the hecaton kires and the cyclopes against cronis and the other 12 Titans Zeus and his siblings fought from Mount Olympus and the Titans fought from Mount Aris for this reason Zeus and his siblings were called the Olympians the Olympians won and many of the Titans were confined to Tartarus he married Hera his sister by whom he is usually said to have fathered Aries and hephestus Zeus however was Infamous for his many affairs with other goddesses from which

a atha Hermes dionis Apollo and Artemis were born Hera Hera is the goddess of marriage women and family being the wife and sister of Zeus she's the queen of gods she was one of the most jealous and vengeful Gods punishing women who laid with her husband and the children that came from it as well when she discovered that Leto one of Zeus's girls was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis she tried to stop the birth of both of them she convinced the nature spirits to prevent them from being born but Poseidon brother of both Hera and

Zeus gave pity to Le and guided her to the floating island of disas where she could give birth she showed her anger towards Hercules too another illegitimate child of Zeus she sent serpents to kill him but the newborn crushed them with his bare hands she later drove him to Madness making him kill his wife and children the event that then sent him on his 12 Labors posidon posidon is the god of the sea and presides over storms earthquakes and horses he was a horrifying and avenging God and he was honored even when he wasn't the

patron deity of the city when Zeus's son MOS asked for Poseidon's help in order to certify his claim on the throne of creit he offered MOS a splendid white bull with the understanding that he was to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon later the were so impressed with the bull and the Divine sign itself that MOS was declared king of cre but wishing to keep the beautiful animal for himself MOS instead sacrificed an ordinary bull to Poseidon instead of the agreed upon one Poseidon enraged caused mos' wife to fall in love with the bull their coupling

produced The Minotaur a half bull half human creature who fed on human flesh Athena Athena is the goddess of wisdom Warfare and handicraft she was born from Zeus's forehead without a mother Zeus's wife was so angry at him for having given birth to a child on his own that she conceived and bore hephestus by herself Athena went into a competition for the patronage of the city against Poseidon they each had to give the Athenians one gift and seops the king of Athens would determine which gift was better Poseidon struck the ground with his Trident and

a saltwater spring sprang up this gave the Athenians access to trade and water Athena offered the first domesticated Olive Tree which brought wood oil and food Athena won and became athens's Patron deity afterwards Poseidon was so angry over his defeat that he sent one of his sons Haler hus to cut down the tree but as he swung his axe he missed his aim and it fell on himself killing him Athena also transformed Medusa into a hideous monster with serpents for hair whose gaze would turn any mortal to Stone after she discovered that Poseidon raped Medusa

in Athena's Temple desecrating it hephastus f fesus is the god of Artisans blacksmiths Carpenters fire sculpture and volcanoes he was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother Hera because of his lameness and he landed on the ocean he made all the weapons of the Gods in Olympus and of many Heroes like Achilles and Hercules hephestus also created Pandora and her famous box which she opened causing curses to be released upon mankind he was one of the Olympians to have returned to Olympus after being exiled he gained revenge against Hera for rejecting him by making her

a magical Golden Throne which went she sat on it did not allow her to stand up again the other gods begged hastus to return to Olympus to let her go but he refused saying I have no mother he demanded to be married to Aphrodite the Goddess of love and passion in order to release Hera and his mother fulfilled the request Aphrodite Aphrodite is the goddess of love lust Beauty pleasure and passion she was born from Uranus genitals when they fell into the ocean after chronus cut them Aphrodite generously rewarded those who honored her but also

punished those who disrespected her often quite quite brutally though married to hephestus Aphrodite had an affair with Aries the God of War eventually hephestus discovered Aphrodite's Affair and planned a trap while Aphrodite and Aries lay together in bed hephastus ens snared them in an unbreakable chainlink net and dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods the other gods laughed at them and it was only due to the intervention of Poseidon that they were released Aries Aries is the god of war and courage he embodies the physical Valor necessary for

success in War but can also personify sheer brutality and blood lust in contrast to his sister the armored Athena whose Marshall functions include military strategy and generalship Aries plays a relatively limited role in Greek mythology but his numerous love affairs and abundant offspring are often alluded to Apollo Apollo is the god of archery music and dance truth and prophecy healing and diseases the Sun and light poetry and more he was born from the union of Zeus and Leto Hera Zeus's wife tried to stop Leto from giving birth to this illegitimate child but she failed he

is considered to be the most beautiful God he is the patron deity of deli and the prophetic deity of the Famous Deli Oracle his oracles were often consulted for guidance in various matters he was in general seen as The God Who affords help and Wards off evil medicine and healing are associated with Apollo Apollo delivered people from epidemics yet he was also a God who could bring deadly plagues with his arrows he is an important pastoral deity and was the patron of herdsmen and Shepherds Artemis Artemis is the goddess of the hunt the Wilderness wild

animals nature vegetation childbirth care of children and Chastity she's the twin sister of Apollo and one of the three major virgin goddesses alongside Athena and Hestia she guarded her virginity jealously and when a young Hunter saw her bathing naked he was transformed into a deer by the angry goddess and was then devoured by his own hunting dogs who did not recognize their Master Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the ancient Greek deities dionis dionis is the god of wine parties and theater he is another illegitimate child of Zeus many festivals were celebrated

to worship him with mass drinking and orgies Hermes Hermes is the messenger god and the patron of Thieves Travelers and Merchants he is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the Divine aided by his winged sandals he's a conductor of souls into the Afterlife he was another illegitimate child of Zeus and he's regarded as the Divine trickster as he often pulled pranks and stole from the other deities Hermes always takes with him a golden rod as a mark of his authority and he's usually depicted wearing a winged helmet he

rescued dionis many times deer deer is the goddess of the Harvest and agriculture presiding over crops through her brother Zeus she became the mother of pany a fertility goddess Hades the God of the Dead loved pany and appeared from the ground to drag her down to the underworld demer searched everywhere to find her missing daughter until she was informed that Hades had taken her to the underworld in response deer neglected her duties as goddess of agriculture plunging the earth into a deadly famine where nothing would grow causing Mortals to die Zeus ordered Hades to return

panie to her mother to save the world however since panie had eaten food from the underworld she could not stay with demer forever but had to divide the year between her mother and Hades this explained the seasonal cycle as demer does not let plants grow in the winter while panie is gone Hades Hades is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld where the spirits of the Dead reside he was portrayed as passive and never portrayed negatively his role was often to maintain relative balance he strictly forbade his subjects to leave his

domain and would become quite enraged when anyone tried to leave or if someone tried to steal the souls from his realm he rarely left the underworld and didn't care about what happened above him the only way to enter the underworld was to get passage from Fairman Karen who helped Souls cross the sticks River if they paid him for that reason when Greeks died most of the time coins were buried with them and placed on their eyes if someone couldn't afford to pay Karen he would have to wait for eternity on the shores of the sticks

once the sticks was passed the souls found Cerberus a three-headed dog that was the guardian of the underworld's gates after that the soul was judged by the three judges who decided where it should go they can choose between elesium the Asphodel Meadows and Tartarus the elesium is basically heaven and it's where the souls of Heroes demigods and especially good Mortals were sent the Asphodel Meadows was a place for ordinary people who did not achieve anything particular in life good or bad Tartarus is basically hell it's where where the Titans and other criminals who upset the

gods reside everyone in Tartarus is tortured for eternity Hestia Hestia is the goddess of the heart the place in a home where a fire is or was traditionally kept for Home Heating and cooking and of homes in general she's one of the three virgin goddesses alongside Athena and Artemis she has a very limited mythology I'll be making similar videos subscribe to see them