A strange legend; Hermes travels around alone on a nice spring day. He encounters noisy crowd on his way. He comes closer to the crowd and witnesses that a god is about to sacrifice his own daughter to the gods. Disguised as a mortal Hermes learns about what’s going on there and flies to the sky and then after a while returns back with a rum in his hands. He tells the king that he brought this rum as a sacrifice instead of his daughter for I lie honor of gods to bring an end to the drought lasting for a long time. Seeing Hermes and the rum brought the king feels so happy and kills the rum as a sacrifice instead of his own daughter.
This legend reminds us the Prophet Abraham (Ibrahim) sacrificing his son Ismail (Ishmael). Because of this incident, the name of Hermes is “Hermes carrying rum”.
These similarities between the legend we came across in Greek mythology and the events firstly seen in Sumerian Gilgamesh originally, developed later on and illustrated in Christianity and Muslim are a indicator of a continuity.
- Ares: God of war. Son of Zeus and Hera. He envies the love by his father Zeus for the goddess of war, Athena. He is closer to his mother. Just like his mother, he is mostly irritable. He enjoys breaking out trouble and violence, antagonizing. Not having a great domain Ares was not welcomed in Anatolia.
He is always in conflict with Heracles (Hercules) the local god of Anatolia. He is humiliated in every case by Heracles. He has liaison with Aphrodite. From this liaison Phobos (Defeat) and Deimos (Fear) come into the world. He falls from grace substantially owing to his liaison. Anyway, he is not loved so much. Known as fair, noble, witty Athena is the first one who comes to mind when someone utters the word “war”, so there is no need to another god of war in a sense. Also, the love affair between him and Aphrodite make him fall into contempt completely. Thus, Ares is generally portrayed as being nude. War helmet has been taken from his head and attached to his
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