Name: Angelito Miguel T.

Janier
FLA 1: Relfection Paper

Mythology is a set of stories related with a society that began around 8th century B.C.
It uses stories about gods and goddesses to explain things that science now does. Dieter is the
Corn Goddess and the Goddess of Harvest and Fruit. Persephone is the daughter of Cronos
and Rhea, the two Titans, and Hades emerges from the underworld to steal her from her
mother. Apollo, the Sun God, appears to her, and Zeus enables Persephone to return to Earth,
where she makes a contract with Hades not to eat anything while in the Underworld.
Demeter, a Greek Mythology goddess, returns to the Underworld for one-third of the year
and is able to redeem the arrangement. Dionysus, patron of Athens, was one of the great gods'
youngest and grew to become a much larger character.
"How the World and Mankind Were Created" is the mythological explanation for how
the Earth and mankind came to be. It recounts how the Gods came to be, as well as light and
day, love, the Underworld and Heaven, hope and evil. Items such as fossils could have
affected their views about Titans, Giants, Cyclopes, the Typhon, and other mythical beings.
This is due to the fact that many of the animals in their stories are far larger than humans and
monster-like. They also used many personalities and stories to depict sites. This may have
contributed to their belief in greater lifeforms on Earth prior to humans.
Prometheus was mentioned in relation to creation myths. He met Io on a high
mountain and they talked about the fire calamity. Io was a gorgeous princess who later
disclosed that she had a run-in with Zeus. Zeus transformed Hera into a cow in order to keep
his current task, but Hera refused. Zeus entrusted him the task of slaying Argus in order to
keep him on his toes. Hermes approached Argus disguised as a country traveler, his gaze
fixed on the tail of her favorite bird, the peacock. Io, who spent a lot of time travelling
around, has two seas named after her. Zeus eventually returned her to her natural shape, and
one of her descendants was the legendary Hercules. Ioene was another princess that Zeus
abducted after transforming her into a bull and whisking her away to Crete. The Cyclops
were Zeus' favorite and were allowed to survive when the rest were wiped off.
The narrative of Europa and Polyphemus is a classic Greek myth about the Cyclops, a
tribe of gods noted for their power and animosity toward strangers. Europa, the god of the
world, falls in love with her mortal maiden, Europa, on November 24th. She goes to the
ocean with her friends to wash and pick flowers, and Zeus appears disguised as a bull. Europa
is scared of Zeus and begs him to let her go, but Zeus promises to take her to his home island
of Crete. As they arrive, Zeus changes himself into a human and makes love to her. The
people of Crete welcome Europa with a bridal ceremony, and she finally settles on the island
and births Zeus two sons. Odysseus then sails away from Troy and beaches his boat on their
shore, where he discovers a cave and is compelled to shove a massive rock over the cave's
opening, effectively trapping the soldiers inside. He feeds a few men and goes asleep, only to
arise with a scheme that destroys a huge timber and sharpens the end of the pineapple-
beached cochelle (popping), culminating in the death of all the men. Odysseus and his men
escape from the cave under the stomachs of Polypshemus' rams, which are out at pasture, in a
final act of defiance.
 Narcissus is a beautiful boy who falls in love with himself, but Zeus curses him to
have the last word but never the ability to speak first. When he dies, a magnificent flower
blooms, which the nymphs name Narcissus. Apollo and Hyacinthus compete to see who can
throw the discus the farthest, and Apollo kills his best buddy by throwing it into him. As a
result, the dying youth's blood turns the grass green, and a hyacinth sprout from the water.
Adonis is a handsome young man who promises to spend half the year with Persephone and
half with Aphrodite, but when Zeus intervenes, Adonis hunts a wild boar and believes he has
killed it. The boar is only slightly injured, and it leaps at Adonis, killing him in her arms.
Flowers bloom where the blood dries on the ground.
Psyche is a lovely young lady who is obsessed with the goddess Venus. Venus plans
to pierce her temples with an arrow, but when Cupid sees Psyche in her shining glory, he
shoots himself instead. Psyche's father orders her to go to the top of a hill and marry a
serpent. Psyche discovers a mansion and falls in love with her husband, but her husband
informs her that her sisters have been sobbing for her. Psyche, befuddled and conflicted,
switches on a lamp one night while her husband sleeps next to her. When she sees Cupid
sleeping on her bed, she weeps for her lack of trust, and Cupid awakens and abandons her.
Cupid then determines to exact revenge on the lovely lady, and Psyche travels to beg for love
and forgiveness. Venus then instructs her to retrieve a golden fleece from the river, but she is
assisted by an eagle. She is instructed to enter the underworld and have Persephone place
some of her beauty in a box. She opens the box and falls asleep on the way. However, Cupid
discovers her asleep and replaces the sleeping spell in the box, allowing Zeus to request her
immortality and create her an eternal goddess. Eventually, Venus approves of the union
because her son married a goddess.