Legends, Myths, and Folktales

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Legends, Myths, and Folktales — page 6 — ATLAS r e The Be a r ofth Long long ago Zeus the king of the ancient Greek e World EA R C H LIG S H T gods was very angry with Atlas one of the Titans children of Heaven and Earth He was angry because Atlas had tried to fight with him So Zeus ordered Atlas to stand forever holding all the heavens and Earth on his shoulders Atlas wanted to get rid of his tiresome job He almost managed to do it when the Greek hero Hercules came to ask for his help Hercules was supposed to get three golden apples that were guarded by a dragon in a garden Atlas agreed to get the apples if Hercules would hold the heavens and Earth on his shoulders while he was gone When Atlas returned he told Hercules to keep the Find and correct the errors in the following sentence Hercules agreed to get three golden apples for Atlas if Atlas would hold the heavens and Earth on his shoulders job Hercules agreed But he asked Atlas to hold the world for just a minute while he got a shoulder pad for himself As soon as Atlas lifted the world to his shoulders Hercules picked up the golden apples and ran away Some stories say that thunder is Atlas shouting after Hercules to come back Most pictures of Atlas show him carrying the world for a while This is an ancient Greek story But today when we want to learn about the world we look into a book called an atlas We can see the shapes of countries see which river flows in which country and see which continent is where LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES A GREEK LEGEND ODYSSEUS AND THE CYCLOPS MYTHS AND LEGENDS FOLKTALES AND FABLES THOR THE THUNDER GOD D I D YO U K N O W is also the name of a range of in northwestern Africa In Atlas o n e s t o r y A t l a s w a s t h e k i n g o f t h a t mountains area But he was a bad host to the Greek hero Perseus Perseus punished Atlas by showing him the l monster Medusa head of the evi Looking at the head of Medusa turned men to stone Herculeswould hold the heavens and Earth on his shoulders for a Answer Atlasagreed to get three golden apples for Herculesif while 9

Legends, Myths, and Folktales — page 7 — DID YOU KNOW ive dragons al There are some real Komodo the giant that izards l today long foot dragons in They’re 10 Indonesia ive l S EA R C H LIG H T the following does the article not say dragons breathed Which of a ice b fire c mist 10

Legends, Myths, and Folktales — page 8 — DRAGONS B e asts of FireandMist According to a popular story there once lived a terrible dragon in a city where many people lived It had huge wings like a bat The flapping of its wings could be heard for miles It could kill an ox with a single blow Its eyes flashed And it breathed fire Every year the people of the city had to offer it a girl to eat or it would kill everyone One year it was the turn of Princess Sabra to face the dragon George the youngest and the bravest of the champions who protected the Christian church came forward to save her He wounded the dragon with his magic sword Ascalon The princess threw her sash around the dragon’s neck and pulled the beast to the marketplace where George killed it with a single blow George later became the patron saint of England People used to believe in all kinds of dragons The beasts roamed the land swishing their great scaly tails They flashed fiery glances from their enormous eyes They blew rings of poisonous smoke and breathed out flames of fire without ever burning their tongues In China and other Asian countries on the other hand the dragon or long is considered good lucky and a powerful protector of human beings The Chinese emperors adopted the dragon as their symbol Dragons are linked with water and they breathe out mist and clouds instead of smoke and fire You can see immense colorful paper dragons being carried during Chinese NewYear and other celebrations Maybe stories of dragons started because people found dinosaur bones and didn’t know what they were The bones would have looked like they came from a monster LEARN MORE READ THESE ARTICLES ATLAS THE BEARER OF THE WORLD A KOREAN FOLKTALE THE TIGER IN THE TRAP MYTHS AND LEGENDS FOLKTALES AND FABLES Answer a ice 11

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