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==Trivia==

The Olympians take their name from Mount Olympus on Earth, raising 9,570 feet above sea level.
According to the book,Atlantis - The Antediluvian Worldby Ignatius Donnelly, Ancient Greece was founded by the Atlanteans after the destruction of Atlantis, which was located at Thera (modern Santorini).
Several of the Greek gods were possibly borrowed from the Hittites. The myth ofAnu,Kumarbis andTeshub possibly was the basis of the story of Uranus, Cronus and Zeus. Likewise, the Norse gods ofNjord, Nertha andHermod were likely Greek in origin.
According to the Saxon Genealogies, the godThor was the descendant of Trojan refugees who founded Thrace and was ancestor of the Germanic King Wotan on whomOdin was based. Likewise, Wotan was ancestor of Hengist and Horsa of Arthurian Legend, Beowulf of the Danes and the modern Royal Family of Great Britain.
Hesiod's version of the birth ofAphrodite ("floating on the waters of Thalatta") may be a allegory of her being Eastern in origin. Thalatta was the Greek name of Tiamat, the sea-mother who was ancestor of Inanna (the Sumerian Aphrodite) and theSumerian Gods.

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