- ASPECTS OF THE EARTH
- Norse: Freya
- Norse: Valkiries
- Chinese: Pan-ku
- Pawnee: Tirawa
- Greek: Pan
- Roman: Faunus
- African: Shango
- Japanese: Susanowo
- Aztec: Tlaloc
- Navajo: Tonenili
- Norse: Thor
- Norse: Njord
- Greek: Zephyr
- Maori: Tawhiri
- Mayan: Xib Chac
- Norse: Bifrost
- Norse: Aegir
- African: Olokun
- Greek: Poseidon
- Roman: Neptune
- Greek: Amphitrite
- Greek: Galatea
- Maori: Tangaroa
- Inuit: Sedna
- Navajo: Estsanatlehi
- Greek: Persephone
- Hawaii: Pele
Myths Related to Aspects of the Earth
Early civilizations had many myths about gods and goddesses associated with what they experienced in their daily lives at the surface of the Earth. This section provides a glimpse of myths associated with aspects of Earth - storms, precipitation, lightning and thunder, winds, clouds, rainbows, water and the seas, aurora, volcanoes and the underworld - which early civilizations used to help understand the sometimes frightening world around them.
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Norse: Freya
The Norse mythology associates the aurora with the goddess Freya. Freya was the goddess of ...Read more
Norse: Valkiries
It has been suggested that the northern lights, or aurora, represented the reflections of the ...Read more
Chinese: Pan-ku
According to a primitive Chinese myth, at the beginning of time only chaos existed. The universe ...Read more
Pawnee: Tirawa
According to the Pawnee Indians, the world was created by the god Tirawa who assigned to the ...Read more
Greek: Pan
Pan is the Greek god of wild nature. He protected shepherds, sheep, and goats. Pan's name is ...Read more
Roman: Faunus
Faunus was a Roman pastoral god. The Romans identified him with the Greek god Pan. Some times ...Read more
African: Shango
Shango was the forth king of the ancient Oyo Empire, the West African center of culture and ...Read more
Japanese: Susanowo
Susanowo was the god of the sea and the storms according to the ancient Japanese religion Shinto, ...Read more
Aztec: Tlaloc
Tlaloc was an important deity of rain and fertility in the Aztec mythology. Aztec people were ...Read more
Navajo: Tonenili
Tonenili, who is also known as the Water Sprinkler, is the Navaho God of Water. He is responsible ...Read moreDid you know?
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