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Demeter
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Goddess of Fruitfulness and vegetation. mother of Persephone, her absence in looking for her daughter caused the crops to die that "explains" the growing season
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Rhea
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wife and sister of Cronus, mother of Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades
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Hera
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Zeus' sister and wife, 2nd most powerful of the gods. protector of the home, marrage, and childbirth
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Zeus
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supreme god and leader of all the others even though he shared rule with his brothers
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Hecate
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a Titan, granddaughter of Uranus and Rhea, kept her powers after other Titans lost them, an attendant to Persephone
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Pluto
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confusing... but the god of wealth from the ground (gold, crops and such) sometimes confused as Hades.
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Tyche
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goddess of good fortune/luck usually pictured with a cornucopia and the wheel of chance
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Hephaestus
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crippled by Zeus when thrown over the wall between for interfering in a fight between Zeus and Hera
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Leto
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a Titaness, Mother of Artemis and Apollo, their father was Zeus
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Pan
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God of herds, flocks, and rural things, Human top with goat horns and a goat lower half.
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Nike
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Goddess of Victory, usually seen as a winged messenger carrying a palm leaf or branch and garland in the other.
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Apollo
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God of healing arts and light, son of Zeus and Leto, gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy, killed the Python, a dragon that guarded the oracle of Delphi
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Selene
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goddess of the moon, not a hunter, and a virgin
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Dionysus
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god of the vine, mother Semele, sewn into Zeus thigh as a fetus and carried to maturity.
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Hestia
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Virgin goddess of the hearth, peace, and family, most peaceful Olympian,
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Mount Olympus
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Home of the Greek Gods
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Hades
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God of the underworld
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Cronus
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last ruling Titan God and the father of the Olympians, his wife was Rhea, fathered Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter. God of Time, ate all of his children except Zeus who ends up killing him
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Moerae
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three old women that carried other the will of the gods in controlling all individual destinies.
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Poseidon
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brothers with Zeus and Hades, they overthrew their father Cronus and spilt the world. this god got the oceans and carries a trident.
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