RachelJ

Atlas


 * When the Titans and the Gods fought each other for the right to rule the universe, Atlas was the Titans´ general and Zeus was the head of the Gods’. But they were defeated, and the Gods condemned Atlas, one of the second-generation of Titans, to stand forever holding the world and the heavens on his shoulders  — a mythical explanation of why the sky does not fall. It was once heard that Atlas tricked Hercules into holding the world for him.   Hercules then asked Atlas to take back the burden just for a moment while he made himself more comfortable - and as soon as Atlas took it, walked off again. After that Perseus killed Meduas, cut her hed off and turned him into stoned --Atlas was later transformed into a mountain range in Northern Africa.


 * Atlas main power is his incredible strength to hold the entire world and heavens on his shoulders. He was also a god of astronomy, who taught men how to read the stars as a calendar (before our written ones were invented). The clouds may seem weightless, but to him they where not. As a symbol, he was mostly likely seen hold the world and heavens on his shoulders which was covered with images of all the constellation. Atlas becomes the god who turns the heaven on their axis, causing the stars to revolve.


 * Atlas had no magical powers or weapons.


 * He comes across Zeus who has a 10 year fight with and loses. Hercules who he tricked to hold the world and heavens for him. Perseus who turn him into the Atlas Mountains in Africa. Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia. He was the brother of Menoetius, Prometheus and Epimetheus. Atlas married Pleïone, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. He was the father of seven daughters known as the Pleiades: Electra, Taete, Maia, Celaeno, Alcyone, Asterope and Merope. Only Merope had a mortal husband.
 * I respect Atlas because of his strength of holding the world, but then I do not respect he because he tried Hercules for holding the world. I would not be friends with Atlas because to me it seems like he only thinks of himself most of the time.



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 * Greek and Roman Mythology*