Greek mythology has one god Zeus who is the highest of all the gods but he has many sons, daughters, brothers, sisters and wife's who make up the rest of the deities.   ... Kings and priests were important when it came to rituals they would over look them to keep the gods appeased but when kings died the rituals of death would be to place a coin in the body, the mouth was the regular place. ... Years went on and no one had written any stories down, but later two men Homer and Hesiod transmitted all the stories they knew into one, they had transmitted stories, poems, songs, and beliefs in...

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Both characters are also lower in rank than their leaders, who are both kings and semi-divine. ... Gilgamesh begins by outwardly stating that Gilgamesh travels far and sees all, and that his adventures are set down on a tablet of stone, which implies a sort of immortality right from the outset. It is in this paean to Gilgamesh at the very opening of the epic which would seem to summarize all that comes after and set his seemingly uninteresting and un-heroic end in a perspective, which many commentators seem to overlook. ...

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