Tag: greek
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Aether – The primordial God in Greek Mythology
Aether known from Greek myth and legend as one of the primordial deities. One of the old gods. The personification of the upper sky. Aether embodies the pure upper air that the gods breathe. Like Tartarus and Erebus, the god Aether may have had shrines in ancient Greece, but he had no temples and is…
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Werewolf of the Olympians – Ancient Greek
The Olympian Werewolf; Damarchus was a real-life Olympic Boxer from Parrhasia (Arcadia) who was said to shape-shift into a Werewolf during the Festival of Lycaea. The Story of the Werewolf Pausanias investigated the story for his famous work Description of Greece. While he seems to accept that Damarchus the boxer did indeed exist, he notes…