1. Christianity: Redefining the Myth

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22. Heaven or Hell?

25. Greek Myth In the beginning, Chaos (a gaping endless void) and a vast flowing blanket of water (Oceanus) covered all of the universe.

26. Greek Myth Eurynome : was the Goddess of All Things, and desired to make order out of the Chaos. She “merged” with a powerful snake, Ophion and she gave birth to Eros , god of Love, also known as Protagonus, the "firstborn".

27. Greek Myth Also born out of Chaos were Gaia , called Earth, or Mother Earth, and Uranus , the embodiment of the Sky and the Heavens, as well as Tartarus , god of the sunless and terrible region beneath Gaia, the Earth.

28. Greek Myth Gaia and Uranus married and gave birth to the Titans , a race of formidable giants, which included a particularly wily(crafty, clever) giant named Cronus .

29. Greek Myth Gaia and Uranus warned Cronus that a son of his would one day overpower him. Cronus therefore swallowed his numerous children by his wife Rhea, to keep that forecast from taking place.

30. Greek Myth Zeus made himself Supreme God over all and lived on Mount Olympus, in Thessaly. All the others were left to fend for themselves in lands below Mount Olympus.

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32. Greek Myth Prometheus , one of the Titans not vanquished in the war between Zeus and the giants. It is said in many myths that Prometheus had created d a race of people from clay… The Common People

33. Greek Myth The gods of Greek myth were how a lot of citizens understood the ways of life. They had a creation story to tell and explain their existence. This gave comfort, but the gods where also very distant beings: Immortal vs. Mortal Supreme Beings(Mount Olympus) vs. Common People (Prometheus)

34. Jewish/Christian Creation God created the Heavens and the Earth Created light and darkness…Called them day and night Expanded the waters into water and sky Created the Land Created Animals Created Man Creation!!!