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Their Father Of Gods: These 14 deities are the great gods of classical Greece. The 12 Olympians are the Homeric family of gods; Hades is not included among the 12, and Dionysus often displaces Hestia. There were a large number of lesser gods and other beings who had cults. These include Pan, the part-animal pastoral god of Arcadia, and foreign deities such as Cybele, the Asian Great Mother. Local heroes had their father of gods own legends and cults, but two heroes are exceptional, Heracles and Asclepius.
Certain about the first Greek settlers _. they brought with them Zeus, their father of gods father of gods and men, lord of the ir, and protector of the household—charac-! that he kept throughout the classical peek religion, like Greek culture, was highly ; and assimilative incorporating elements religious beliefs of the aboriginal in-i of the Greek Peninsula as well as from civilization.
Quetzalcoatl was active before the creation of man in which he seems to have taken a prominent part. Sahagun says that to him was assigned the task of sacrificing the other primal gods at Teotihuacan, on the occasion of the creation of the sun. This places him very far back in the antiquity of legendary lore. By the Toltecs and the Aztecs alike he was regarded as one of the oldest of the gods.
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