Civilizations from antiquity lacked the wonder of science to explain the world; the forces of nature on earth, the fates of peoples lives, the spirits of the dead. However, they still needed to turn to something to try and explain these phenomena, so they began to create stories about mysticism and deities. These stories evolved into legends and myths that crossed cultures between Greece and Egypt over time and created gods and goddesses to whom …showed first 75 words of 1875 total…

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