Post #10

My fellow gods and goddesses’ presentations were spectacular. I learned something new about each and every one of them. So if you are reading this, your presentation was awesome and I learned a lot.

The first two to go were Sun wukong and guan yin.  I learned that there is a large festival in china celebrating sun wukong.  They burn incense and do a mock battle between Monkey and the heavens. I learned that guan yin was an extremely caring goddess. I did not know that she would not go to the heavens until she had saved all of the souls on earth.  

Next, I learned a lot about Raven. Raven is one of the native American trickster gods. He used to be white, but was turned black from the smoke of a fire.  Komorkis is a native American goddess from the Blackfeet tribe. She is the goddess of the moon and she is represented by many different animals

On Wedensday I learned about hathor and sekhmet. They both share a body, but sekhmet is the goddess of war and hathor is the goddess of love.  I learned that sekhmet becomes the goddess of healing. I also learned that hathor is associated with the milky way.

Nut is the Egyptian goddess of the sky. I learned that ra punished her by not allowing her to have her children on any day, but thoth created five new days for nut to have her children on. I also got to learn about xi-wangmu. She is the goddess of immortality and she once spread diseases to humans.

I presented with loki, so I already knew a lot about him, but I did learn that his name has ties to Saturday. My father, Odin, was next. I learned about his two ravens Huginn and Munin and how they fly around the world to bring information to him. Ma’at was the last to go on Thursday. She is the Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and order. I learned that she is in charge of weighing peoples Ba’s.

ON Friday Artemis presented. I learned that she was given her hounds on her sixth birthday.  symbols for Artemis are the moon  dogs and deer. Next, the jade emperor presented. I learned that he was not always a god, but he had to pray for thousands of years to become immortal.  I also learned that he is a vegetarian.

Freyja is the goddess of love, death, beauty and war among other things. She has lots of symbols and her father is njord. Pandora was the last to present of Friday. I learned that she was created to punish mankind, or to give zeus a reason to punish mankind. She married epimetheus.

The first presenter on Tuesday was chang’e. I learned that chang’e had a pet rabbit. I also learned that she was married to Hou yi, who killed nine of the jade emperor’s children. Glispa is the native American goddess of healing. She was kidnapped by the klesh, but after she became immortal she joined them.

Rhea is Kronos’s husband. I learned that lions are sacred to her because they once protected zeus. I learned that above all else rhea cares about her children. Baldr was the god of light, joy, purity, beauty, and innocence. He was killed by loki. He only had one weakness and that was mistletoe.