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His sacred animals include roe deer, swans, and pythons. His signs and symbols include the laurel wreath, bow and arrow, and lyre. His most famous temple is in Delphi, where he established his oracular shrine. In myth, he can be cruel and destructive, and his love affairs are rarely happy. Apollo is depicted as young, beardless, handsome and athletic. Both Apollo and Artemis use a bow and arrow. He is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis. God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. Her sacred animals include doves and sparrows.

Her symbols include the magical girdle, myrtle, roses, and the scallop shell. She is usually depicted as a naked or semi-nude beautiful woman. She was also a lover to Adonis and Anchises, to whom she bore Aeneas. She had many lovers, most notably Ares, to whom she bore Harmonia, Phobos, and Deimos. She was married to Hephaestus, but bore him no children. In Hesiod's Theogony (188–206), she was born from sea-foam and the severed genitals of Uranus in Homer's Iliad (5.370–417), she is daughter of Zeus and Dione. Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure.

Drinking cups and other vessels were painted with scenes from Greek myths. A temple would house the statue of a god or goddess, or multiple deities, and might be decorated with relief scenes depicting myths. The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes. This book does not contain explicit sexual content.The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion.

It contains graphic violence, creative language, and sexual innuendo. This is the first installment of an ongoing series. New dangers begin to arise that threaten not only Rezkin and his friends, but possibly everyone in Ashai.

With no understanding of his life’s purpose and armed with masterful weapons mysteriously bestowed upon him by a dead king, Rezkin must travel across Ashai to find the one man who may hold the clues to his very existence.ĭetermined to adhere to his last orders, Rezkin extends his protection to an unlikely assortment of individuals he meets along the way, often leading to humorous and poignant incidents.Īs if pursuing an elite warrior across a kingdom, figuring out who he is and why everyone he knows is dead, and attempting to find these so-called friends and protect them is not enough, strange things are happening in the kingdom. Raised and trained in seclusion at a secret fortress on the edge of the northern wilds of the Kingdom of Ashai, a young warrior called Rezkin is unexpectedly thrust into the outworld when a terrible battle destroys all that he knows.

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