How Night Came From the Sea
A Story From Brazil
retold by Mary-Joan Gerson
Concept Question: What are some patterns in nature?
Weekly Question: How have people explained the pattern of day and night?
Weekly Question: How have people explained the pattern of day and night?
Genre: Porquoi Tale/Myth
Skill: Generalize; Visualize
MYTHS
The ancient Greeks told stories about their gods. These stories are called myths (short for mythology, or stories about gods.) Stories about the ancient Greek gods are still told today. Each storyteller told the stories in their own way, but whatever power and personality a god had was consistent from story to story. For example, Zeus was the king of all the gods, and only Zeus could throw lightning bolts.
The magical world of the ancient Greek gods was a world full of bickering and fights and wars and compromise and fear and fun and punishment and love. Many myths were based on the fact that gods, like mortal men, could be punished or rewarded for their actions.
Zeus and Prometheus and the Gift of Fire
Icarus and Daedalus, Wings
Hades and the River Styx
Demeter and Persephone
King Midas and the Golden Touch
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The ancient Greeks told stories about their gods. These stories are called myths (short for mythology, or stories about gods.) Stories about the ancient Greek gods are still told today. Each storyteller told the stories in their own way, but whatever power and personality a god had was consistent from story to story. For example, Zeus was the king of all the gods, and only Zeus could throw lightning bolts.
The magical world of the ancient Greek gods was a world full of bickering and fights and wars and compromise and fear and fun and punishment and love. Many myths were based on the fact that gods, like mortal men, could be punished or rewarded for their actions.
Zeus and Prometheus and the Gift of Fire
Icarus and Daedalus, Wings
Hades and the River Styx
Demeter and Persephone
King Midas and the Golden Touch
For more great mythological stories click here
Want to know more about Ancient Greece? Ancient Greek Gods/Goddesses/Magical Beings?Or maybe you'd like to know about their daily life or the Olympics? If so, click here!