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Greek mythology was (part of) the religion that the ancient Greeks believed in.

(Dodecatheon).

That was their way of telling/saying how things worked in the world (according to them).

It was their way of explaining natural phenomoni.

Greek Mythology started around 935bc or/and 1000bc

It started by Greeks telling story's about the gods they believed in and then they passed down these story's generations and generations till they reached us.

Before Christ (AD or Anno Domini), Greek Mythology was the way that the Greeks explained natural occurrences... such as: hurricanes, earthquakes, fire, etc. They created a way to understand how life began and continued.

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The Greeks believed that mythology was a way of better understanding their gods. They did not understand the myths to be true, in the way that traditional Christians understand the biblical creation or flood stories to be true, but simply as allegories that helped them to relate to the gods.

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