";s:4:"text";s:2232:" : Subcategories. Birds are often associated with particular gods or deities in various traditions, sometimes acting as gods themselves and other times helping gods or symbolizing deities.
In Greek Mythology, Apollo was the God of Light, and it was his job to pull the sun across the sky in his 4-horse chariot every day. One of several creation stories in ancient Egypt said that when land rose out of the primeval waters of chaos, the first deity to appear was a bird perching on that land. Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. The Egyptians called the god the Benu bird and portrayed it as a long-legged, wading heron in the sun temple at Heliopolis. The Labors of Heracles Episode 6: The Stymphalian Birds .
Birds and Creation Myths from several regions associate birds with the creation of the world. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mythological birds. From the filth of the Augean Stables to the drear of the Stymphalian Marshes. They devoured humans, and had beaks made of bronze. The roles of birds in mythology are nearly as diverse as the various types of birds found in stories and legends across the world.
The Stymphalian birds were a group of monstrous birds in Greek mythology. Deity Description Aphrodite (Ἀφροδίτη, Aphroditē) . This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. Birds have been honored, revered, and worshipped in many different cultures throughout history, and the representation of birds as gods or god-like figures is just one of the many cultural connections between humans and birds.Learning the history of bird deities or birds associated with gods is one more way to understand just why we are so fascinated with avifauna today. Here terrible flesh-eating birds with iron beaks and bronze claws had taken up residence in a large colony.