My Favorite Greek Gods (Basedased On Rick Riordan's Works)

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Today I bring you another list of my personal favorites. It's a list of the greek gods I fancy. It is largely based on the works of Rick Riordan which in turn is based largely on the actual greek myth. Owing to the fact that in the past, done petite haven't been able to follow up what I'm writing on, I have have decided to give a little back story this time...

In the beginning, long long ago, when time was not and naught, Chaos -the primordial before the primordials- floated around the milky way. Parts of his essence touched the sky, creating the first primordial called Ouranos. It also spilled on the earth creating the mighty Gaia. So the two primordials did the natural thing and fell in love. Together, they procreated and birthed the titans. There was a while drama I'm not going to dive too much into because I have to get to my list, but I'll give the short story about the titans coz it's a bit important.

They Earth and sky gave birth to (not in this order and just off the top of my head) Oceanus, krios, kois, hyperion, leto, Atlas, and of course, Kronos. He was brutal to his other children (the giants and the hundred handed ones, and the cyclops too...). Locked them down in tartarus mostly. The children grew close to their mum and ended up looking their dad. Kronos, the youngest and most power hungry led the entire affair, and personally delivered the killing blow with his scythe. They cut him into many pieces, but just as they were doing this, he cursed Kronos, and told him his children would kill him too.

Fast forward a bit. Kronos married Rhea. They start having children (the gods) in this order Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. And guess what guys... He swallows them in that order. But there's a twist. When it's time for him to swallow Zeus, Rhea gives him a stone instead, she hides Zeus with Leto. With the powers of the earth on their side, and the help of some nymphs, they are savior to raise Zeus to be a fine man. He goes to the castle one day, when he's strong enough. He poses as an entertainer, and poisons Kronos's wine with something to make him barf up his children. So the last gods to go in were the first to come out. That's why I'm greek myth, Zeus is the oldest, followed by Poseidon and followed by Hades according to how they were barfed up.

There was a long war, and in the end mount olympus overcame mount othrys... The gods won the war. Amnesty of sorts were given to the more peaceful titans like the infamous prometheus (the titan who loved humans and have them fire. He was punished heavily by Zeus for this though).

Now, the era of the gods was cool. They taught humans to be good, and have good humane qualities. It was common place for Zeus to disguise as common man, and ask for alms, and if you proved you were good and kind, he rewarded you greatly. If otherwise then death would be the most merciful fate you'll get because he's most likely to come at you very heavily with all the might of olympus.

Also, the gods were addicted womanizers, so occasionally, they would have demigod children.

Anyways, I'm going to get to the list now.

Poseidon

This is to me the coolest god there is. He's the replacement for Oceanus the titan of sea. Poseidon was revered because he was a direct descendant of Kronos just like Zeus and Hades. The three of them were the most powerful of the gods, and they -mostly Zeus-birthed the other gods. Poseidon's might was feared and tales were told a lot by seamen and pirates. Anything that can scare a pirate must be really scary. His demigod children are why I chose him. They could control large bodies of water, create tornadoes, talk to water creatures, get perfect bearing in the ocean without a compass, survive at depths impossible for even submarines to reach, and they could even create bubbles in water enabling someone else to stay under water for as long as they wanted .... Based on demigod children Poseidon is definitely the coolest. I didn't even mention that sometimes they could shape shift and he was already that cool...

Hades

The god of the underworld had a hat made of pure terror. Everywhere he went people could did from pure horror... His children could raise the dead to fight for him, cause earthquakes and could basically do necromancy type stuff... You know... Talk to the dead, sense a death, and all the other cool death related stuff...

Honorable mentions include Zeus (his children had lightning and flight), Apollo's and Artemis (the archer twins... Gods of the sun and moon respectively), Aphrodite (who's children could make you do what they wanted) Athena(who's currently were smart)...

Hephaestus

The ugliest of the gods was renowned for making the most powerful weapons of the gods... His children could withstand fire as a result of they father being the god of the forge. They were also excellent engineers... Could build anything at all. They were great technicians.

That's my list guys. I didn't get to talk much about the personality of the gods. Maybe I'll do that sometimes soon. If you have any questions, feel free to ask... I love you all... You're awesome!!!