Gods and Goddesses offers fascinating insight into how human beings have tried throughout time to make sense of the mystery of life. Stunning illustrations and intriguing text bring the worlds of myth and legend to life. Discover gods from the past, goddesses from the present, and age-old myths that never die. The facts and glossary pages at the back show you the way.
Many myths say it was born from the marriage of the earth and sky.
The ancient Greeks told how Gaia took Uranus, the sky, as her husband and then poured forth multitudes of creatures land and sea beasts and the first race of gods, the Titans. Human beings often appear quite late in such stories. The Greeks believed that the Titan Prometheus modelled them from clay. The Mesopotamian god Mardukl made humans as a servant race, to save the gods the trouble of looking after the world. Often some mishap in their creation accounts for inequalities between humans.