PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 2

World mythologies abound and then we take Nordic myths for instance we might have heard of Thor and his hammer,a popular tales before christianity came to Norway. The tale was believe Thor made rain and even lightning with his hammer and rode across the sky with chariot drawn on his heels with two goats.We shall be drawn into even brief glimpse at the world of Norse mythology which the extract vividly deals with including numerous myths about Thor and Odin, Freyr and Freyja, Hoder and Balder.It also existed in Greece at the time that philosophy was evolving,as handed down for millennia,from generation to generation.In Greece,they have prototypes and gods like Zeus and Apollo,Hera and Athene,Dionysos and Asclepios,Heracles and Hephaesto and numerious others which were nothing but an embellishments and minor alterations of the Egyptian deities. When the myths were written down to a larger extent by Hesiod and Homer,around 700 B.C.,created a whole new situation in which they could now be debated and challenged.