Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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The myth of Ceto: the primordial goddess of the sea's monsters who, with Phorcys, bore the Gorgons, Graeae, Ladon and Echidna — the dark mother of the
The myth of Glaucus: the mortal fisherman transformed by a magic herb into an immortal prophetic sea-god, whose love for the nymph Scylla led the jealous
The myth of Achelous: the shape-shifting god of Greece's greatest river who wrestled Heracles for Deianira and lost a horn — the broken horn becoming the
The myth of Boreas: god of the cold north wind, mightiest of the Anemoi, who abducted Oreithyia, fathered the winged Boreads, and wrecked the Persian
The myth of Zephyrus: god of the gentle west wind, the soft breeze of spring and flowers, husband of Chloris, whose jealousy caused the death of the
The myth of Notus: god of the hot south wind, one of the four Anemoi, the storm-bringer of autumn rains and tempests that ripened the late crops but also
The myth of Aeolus: the divine keeper of the winds and warden of the Anemoi on his floating island, who gave Odysseus the winds tied in a bag — a gift
The myth of Thanatos: the gentle winged god of peaceful death, twin of Sleep and son of Night, who escorted souls at life's end — and was once chained by
The myth of Morpheus: the god of dreams and son of Sleep who shapes the human figures of our dreams and can take the perfect form of any person — the
The myth of Asclepius: the god of medicine and son of Apollo who could raise the dead — until Zeus struck him down to protect the order of life and death.
