Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Knowledge of Gods and Goddesses


This is Athena, the wise god of Greece.

Each civilization has different culture, what they think is different. Since gods were their imagination, their thought, therefore different nation’s gods had their own properties.

Chinese gods are highly admired by Buddhists; they had moral values that used to aware people. Some of the Chinese demigod, known as ‘Luo Han’, often comes to earth to help the poor and people who suffer. The Chinese gods gain their knowledge from self-calming (as a form of therapy). They will understand the unknown, they will sense the unseen.

But Norse gods are the different, they’re unique. Ancient Norse people thought that this world is only snowy and full of fire (please refer to Han’s previous post), and the gods used their knowledge to bring life to this world. Even the war god, Odin, hangs himself on Yggdrasil, to create the Norse words, Runenschrift. And Odin lost one of his eyes to drink the spring of knowledge, Mimir.

Athena, the wise god of Greece has her own style. She solved many kinds of problem and once defeated Poseidon, the sea god, with her knowledge. But sometimes even gods are jealousy. Athena transformed Medusa into an ugly snake-haired woman because of her beauty.

Like Egyptian gods, they live like humans, lived in jealousy and suffering. Seth, the god of storm and devil, cut his brother, Osiris into pieces; Osiris wanted to kill his own jackal-headed son, Anubis, but Isis hid him…and more.

Some Greek gods and Titans kill the innocents. Like Kronos the Titan, he ate every son his wife birth, until the born of Zeus, he got a stone in his big mouth. Zeus had many wives, that Hera hated most.

Some gods are like we humans, they may have knowledge we don’t have, but we may suffer least than they.

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