Myths

Roecus

This myth leads into Greek culture and their expectations. In this myth the Greeks write about how serving and loyalty were important. They give specific value to being loyal because, it’s part of Greek culture and believe that being loyal, creates character and strengthens their personality and helps to gain confidence with others. They (Greeks) write about how their gods receive these values in a good way and have it present in their mind when these values are accomplished. So this myth is actually a way of expressing what the “gods” expect and how the gods will react in return. So it is a way of building and strengthening values in Greek society.

The water Deities

The word deities means: A god or goddess, the essential nature or condition of being a god; divinity. According to: http://www.answers.com/topic/deity . This definition states that god is an essential nature,therefore the meaning of God is: A being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith and worship in monotheistic religions. The force, effect, or a manifestation or aspect of this being, A being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people, especially a male deity thought to control some part of nature or reality, An image of a supernatural being; an idol. One that is worshiped, idealized, or followed: Money was their go, a very handsome man, a powerful ruler or despot, according to: http://www.answers.com/god . If we read these definitions you can come to the conclusion that “God” is a being that has A LOT of power and that is the original founder of all universe and that humans are a result of his creation. In this myth the definition that fits best is the first one which states that God is a being that is perfect omnipotent … so in a simple conclusion to this myth, Greeks thought that this power that gods had was the effect of all natural causes and blamed the gods for a natural disaster because, they understood that these beings were able enough to do this and that no one else was. Their conclusion was that they were the ones responsible to all natural causes and were the ones to be blamed at. So what this myth means and what it wants is that humans understand that there is a God, and it is He who controls all their ways of life and as a result of these teaching people feel that they have the responsibility of pleasing the gods so no natural disaster occur. It is a way manipulating people’s actions, but not their thoughts.

The winds

Wind is and artificial movement of air. In those days Greeks recurred to gods for any explanation and in this case they did. In the modern world the wind is considered an artificial movement of air and in the old ancient Greek world it was considered gods. What this means is that Greeks had something that they could recur to if any event happened and could keep track of the winds, which would then mean that they even studied winds and knew which way they would go. By assigning gods to the winds, what they were doing was that they were encouraging people to memorize these winds by using gods’ names to create certain chain of knowledge by linking gods to nature. This helped the Greek society in a sense understand winds and even try to study them and helped society grow in a knowledgeable way.