Explore Myths Related to Aspects of the Earth
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Norse mythology associates the aurora with the beautiful goddess, Freya, daughter of Njord ...
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In Norse mythology, it is believed that the northern lights (the aurora) were light reflected ...
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Chinese people thought the universe had the shape of a chicken's egg. After 18,000 years. the ...
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According to the Pawnee, the world was created by the god Tirawa. Tirawa sent the stars to ...
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Pan is the Greek god protector of shepherds and their flocks. He has horns and legs of a goat, ...
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Faunus was a Roman pastoral god. The Romans identified him with the Greek god Pan . Like Pan, ...
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Shango was the king of the Oyo kingdom in West Africa. This was where the Yoruba people lived ...
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According to the ancient Japanese religion Shinto, Susanowo was the god of the sea and the ...
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Tlaloc was an important deity of rain and fertility of the Aztec mythology. Aztec people were ...
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Tonenili is the Navaho God of Water. He is also called the Water Sprinkler because he sprinkles ...
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studied the heavens in the past?
Did you know that the Yoruba god of the sea, Olokun, lives in a palace under the sea, with human and fish attendants?
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Near the Earth’s equator is where you could find some of the warmest places on Earth. But it wasn’t always like that. It used to be cold at the equator, so cold that ice formed on land and in the ocean....
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