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Imagine this, you are in a world where there is many gods. Each god represents an aspect of nature ranging from fire to wisdom. That is what it was like for the ancient Greeks. They lived their lives in the way they thought the gods expected them to. Ancient m ....

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.... of that god. On the other hand, ancient myths were not only accounts of religion, they were also explanations of natural phenomenon. Some gods represented aspects of nature. Mythology was a form of science. "It is an explanation of something in nature; how, for instance, any and everything in the universe came into existence: men, animals, this or that flower, the sun, the moon, the stars, storms, eruptions, earthquakes, all that is and all that happens"(Hamilton 12). If there was a lightning storm, it was because Zeus was hurling lightning bolts down from Mount Olympus, home of the gods. Natural occurrences were explained by saying that th ....