Mythology Meets MLP Portraits

 Yes, your hostess happens to be a big fan of mythology.
In those days, people built statues to honour their Gods and represent them.
I don't have the talent to make statues, so I'll picture them in another way! ^_^

Greek Mythology Meets MLP - Starring:

Twice As Fancy Love Melody as Hera, Mother of Gods
Big Brother Chief as Zeus, Father of Gods
Big Brother Barnacle as Ares, God of War
Brush 'n Grow Pretty Vision as Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty
Skyflyer as Apollon, God of Sun and Fire
Sunbeam as Helios, God of the Sun
Rainbow Pony Sunlight as Eos, Goddess of Dawn
Windy Wing and Summerwing Ponies as the Gods of the Four Winds
Big Brother Quarterback as Poseidon, God of the Sea
Merry Go Round Flower Bouquet as Demeter, Goddess of Fertility
Brush 'n Grow Twisty Tails as Persephone, Goddess of the Underworld
NSS North Star as Athene, Goddess of Wisdom
Pony Bride as Helena
Princess Tiffany as Selene, the Moon Goddess

The Plot and The Characters:

World's history began when two beings emerged from the ultimate Chaos:
The Earth, Gaia, and Eros, the Spirit of Love and Desire. Gaia's children were
the Mountains, the Sea, and Uranos - the Heaven. Together, Gaia and Uranos
had more children, among them Kronos, Rhea, and Aphrodite.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite (Venus) is the Goddess of Love and Beauty. She is married to the
crippled blacksmith Hephaistos (Vulcanus), but her secret love is Ares, the
fiery God of War. One day her cheated husband built a trap: he hammered a
fragile but strong net of steel in which he caught the loving couple in his bed.
He called the other Gods to witness their shameful situation, but instead blaming
Ares and Aphrodite, they laughed at Hephaistos who couldn't even satisfy his
own wife.

Other children of Gaia and Uranos were Kronos (Saturn) and Rhea.
In fear of a oracle which said that one of their children would defeat Kronos,
he swallowed all offsprings as soon as they emerged Rhea's womb.
Of course Rhea didn't like this, and when she gave birth to her last child Zeus,
she gave Kronos a rock to eat instead and hid the baby in a safe place.
Young Zeus was nurtured by the divine goat Amaltheia, and when he had
grown up to a strong man, he went straight to his father Kronos for revenge.
Zeus rescued his siblings by pulling them right out of their father's stomach,
and admitting his defeat, Kronos was was sent to a deserted island
(maybe Elysion).
Now was the time that the powers were shared among the siblings.
Each of them agreed that Zeus should be the ruler of both heaven and earth.

Zeus

Zeus (Jupiter), the Godfather, and father of indeed many Gods and semi-Gods,
chose to marry his sister Hera. Zeus easily falls in love with both human and divine
women, making him the father of well-known semi-Gods such as Herakles
(Hercules) and the beautiful Helena. He appears to them in the shape of various
animals, as no human being can bear his divine sight without going mad.
It has happened once that Hera, who is very jealous about his countless affairs,
appeared to his recent lover, a mortal girl, in disguise.
She told her to ask her mysterious lover about his true self to prevent being
cheated. During the next night when Zeus stayed by her side, she asked him to
grant her a wish. He agreed, promising to make all her wishes come true at once,
and as she told him to appear to her in his true form, he couldn't draw back,
leaving the poor girl insane for the rest of her life.
Zeus uses bolts of Lightning to defend his state as a supreme ruler.

Hera

Hera (Juno), both Zeus' sister and wife, is often angry about her husband and
dislikes many Gods who live on the Olymp, as they are children of Zeus and
other Goddesses. Despite her being called the "Godmother", she and Zeus have
only one child - Ares, God of War. Simililar to Zeus giving birth to Athene on his
own, Hera gave birth to Hephaistos. She is the Goddess and guardian of Marriage.




Poseidon

When the world's powers had been shared between the children of Kronos and
Rhea, Poseidon (Neptune) was chosen to be the ruler of the Sea, and basically
of all waters and their inhabitants. He is also the God of Horses.
Poseidon is married to the Nereid Amphitrite, but like his brother Zeus, he had
countless love affairs, bringing forth offsprings such as the winged horse
Pegasus, the hero Theseus, and the Kyklop Polyphemus.
Poseidon is a very vengeful God; he put lots of effort into defeating the famous
adventurer Odysseus on his way home to Ithaka after the Troian War. When
Odysseus tricked and killed Poseidon's son Polyphemos, he didn't make it
any better.
Poseidon also dislikes Pallas Athene after they fought over the patronship of the
city of Athens. In a contest Poseidon stuck his trident into the ground and
produced a spring of sea water on the Akropolis. But the people decided for
Athene who gave them the Olive Tree. Wild with rage Poseidon flooded
the Attic plains.

Athena

Pallas Athena (Minerva), favourite daughter of Zeus, is the virgin Goddes of
Wisdom, Knowledge, Arts and Justice but also a Goddess of War.
While Ares pictures hot-blooded violence, she is the one for tactics. She holds
the famous shield Aegis and is the patroness of the city of Athens. She favours
heroes and watches over them; some of the most famous heroes she guided are
Perseus, Herakles, Iason and Odysseus. Athene also helped building the famous
ship Argo.

Demeter

Another sister of Zeus is Demeter (Ceres), the Goddess of Fertility and Harvest.
It was her who told the mortals how to grow fruits and wheat.
With Zeus she is the mother of Persephone who was kidnapped by Demeter's
brother Hades, God of the Underworld. Because of her child's loss,
she is often melancholic and lonely.

Persephone

Persephone (Proserpina) has been abducted by Hades and is now the Goddess
of the Underworld. Because Demeter had been so sad and heart-broken, Zeus
sent Hermes into the Underworld to get Persephone back. Hades agreed and
a deal was made: Persephone was to stay with him for one half of a year but
was free to return to her mother in the other half. The part of the year when she
rules the Underworld Demeter is so sad she forgets to care about the plants so
nothing will grow any more - then, the winter begins.
The realm in which Persephone is now Queen is called Hades, like the God of
the Underworld. The souls of the dead are guided there by Thanatos (Death) or
Hermes, the Herald of the Gods. Before entering the Underworld, they have to
cross the river Styx. Legends say that it was the habit to put a coin in the mouth
of the dead so they could pay the ferryman Charon.
A few mortals have entered the Hades when they were still alive, and even less
escaped from it this way. One of them was Herakles, another Odysseus
(Ulysses) who came to seek answers from the famour seer Teiresias.

Ares

Ares (Mars) is the only child of Zeus and Hera and God of War. Although he is
the lover of the Aphrodite, he has also falle in love with Eos once.

Eos

Eos is the Goddess of Dawn; the rosy fingered one, as she is called by Homer,
is the sister of the Sun God Helios and Selene, the Moon Goddess.
When Ares fell in love with her, she was cursed by the jealous Aphrodite who
turned the calm and lovely Eos into a nymphomaniac.
From that time on Eos desired every man she saw, and the curse also said that
those she loved would despite her the most.
Every morning, Eos prepares the way for her brother's chariot to rise the sun by
touching the sky with her rosy fingers. She is also the mother of the Four Winds.

The Four Winds

Eos' children, the Four Winds: Boreas, God of the North Wind, Eurus, God of the
East Wind, Zephyros, God of the West Wind, and Notus, God of the South Wind.

Selene

Selene (Luna), the Goddess of the Moon, had many love affairs, just like her sister
Eos. With the shepherd Endymion, she had fifty daughters. Like her brother
Helios she rides in a chariot to make the moon rise. When Helios has completed
his journey and returns home with his golden chariot, the night starts when Selene
rides across the sky with her chariot of silver.

Helios

Helios (Sol) is the God of the Sun and lives in the east where the sun rises.
He rides across the sky in his chariot which is
drawn by four fiery horses every morning after dawn.
One day his favourite Son Phaeton begged him to let him drive the chariot, and
the good-natured, patient Helios agreed. Being a little too keen, the young man
rode very high, but when he noticed that he had reached the stars, he turned,
scratching the sky with the flaming chariot. This scratch is visible until today if
you look up into the night's sky - it's the Milky Way. When Phaeton brought
the carriage back down, he went too low, burning the earth's surface to deserts
and blackening the people's skins. The results of this mistake can also still be
seen today - in Africa. To prevent more mistakes being made, Zeus shot a bolt
of lightening at Phaeton and killed him.

Apollon

Phoibos Apollon is, like Helios, known as God of the Sun as well as God of Fire and
Music. He and his twin sister Artemis (Diana), Goddess of Hunt, are the children
of Zeus and the Titan Leto, but Apollon and his father never got along well,
especially because of what happened to his favourite son Asklepois (Aeskulap).
Asklepios grew up with the Kentaur Chiron, from which he learned the art of
medicine, and later became the God of Medicine. Apollon watched with pride
how he shared his great knowledge with the mortals, but when he started to revive
the dead he arose the anger of Zeus, who killed him with a bolt of lightning.
Once Apollon had fallen in love with his priestess Kassandra, the daughter of
King Priamos and Queen Hekate of Troy. Because she refused him, he cursed
her by giving her the gift of visions, but the clearer she saw into the future, the
more people should not believe her. Kassandra saw Troy burn and fall, but
when she tried to warn her people, they just laughed at her. Later she became
the slave and lover of Agamemnon and was slain by his wife Klytaimnestra.

Helena

One mortal woman is said to be as beautiful as the Goddess of Beauty herself.
Her name is Helena. Zeus fell in love with a woman named Leda and appeared
to her in the shape of a white swan. Leda gave birth to an egg from which Helena
hatched. She had been the reason for the Troian War.
When Helena was ready for marriage, her stepfather Tyndareos opened the gates
for the best men in the land. A lot of them came and threatened to fight over the
beautiful woman, but Odysseus let them swear not to harm each other, leave the
decision to Helena and help her future husband to keep his wife no matter what
may happen. Helena decided for Atreus' son Menelaos, King of Lakedaimon, but
fell in love with a young man named Paris who kidnapped her.
Paris is the son of King Priamos and Queen Hekate of Troy. Because there was
an oracle saying that Paris would lead to Troy's fall, Hekate gave the baby to a
sheperd and told Priamos she had killed him. One day, three Goddesses
appeared before Paris, handing him a golden apple. It was Hera, Athene and
Aphrodite. They ordered him to give the apple to the most beautiful among them,
but Paris couldn't decide because he had never seen such divine beauty before
and each of the Goddesses looked more beautiful than anything he had ever seen
before. Hera was the first who decided to help a little; she promised him kingdoms
and armies at his command and endless glory. Then Athene stepped forwards,
offering him eternal wisdom and knowledge, and to be the wisest men of all.
At last Aphrodite made her promise: the most beautiful woman in the world
should love him and be his. Paris (being a man *eg*) decided for Aphrodite,
kidnapped Helena, and brought her home to Troy, where he was heartily
welcomed by his parents and family (except for Kassandra).Now all the men
who swore to help Menelaos went out against Troy to start one of the most
famous wars of anienct history.

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