Setelah Zeus mengalahkan ayahnya, masa pemerintahan alam semesta yang baru pun dimulai. Masa ini dinamakan, masa dewa Olympus. Dalam masa ini terdapat 12 dewa yang berkuasa sekaligus mengatur bagian kekuasaannya masing-masing.

1. Zeus

Zeus adalah Dewa Pemimpin yang bertahta di Olympus. Zeus juga merupakan dewa hujan dan dewa langit. Ia sering digambarkan dengan sebuah tongkat kerajaan, elang pada bahunya dan tongkat petir di tangannya. Ia juga digambarkan sebagai sesosok pria berwibawa dengan jenggot dan selalu terlihat kokoh. Tongkat petir yang dimiliki Zeus, konon adalah senjata terkuat sehingga membuatnya ditakuti para dewa lain dan para manusia. Zeus konon sering melemparkan tongkat petirnya kepada mereka yang sering melanggar sumpah.

Zeus menikah dengan adik perempuannya, Hera yang juga menjadi Dewi Pernikahan.
Zeus membagi dunia menjadi tiga dan membagi dunia-dunia tersebut dengan kedua saudaranya, Poseidon yang menjadi Dewa Penguasa Lautan, dan Hades yang menjadi Dewa Penguasa Alam Kematian yang terletak dibawah tanah atau didalam perut bumi.

2. Poseidon

Poseidon adalah dewa yang dianggap paling layak untuk mengawasi lautan yang menutupi 2/3 bagian bumi. Poseidon digambarkan sebagai dewa yang selalu membawa tongkat trisula-nya kemana-mana. Menurut etimologi Yunani kuno, Poseidon adalah dewa yang paling kuat di antara saudara-saudara lainnya sehingga Zeus mempercayakan bagian yang paling luas dari bumi untuk diatur Poseidon. Dalam beberapa epik Yunani kuno, Poseidon digambarkan sebagai sosok dewa yang tempramental, sehingga membuat sifat dari lautan juga menjadi tempramental. Poseidon menikahi Amphitrite sebagai istrinya yang merupakan cucu dari Titan Oceanus.
Meskipun dalam beberapa epik digambarkan sebagai sosok yang tempramental, dalam beberapa kisah juga digambarkan bagaimana Poseidon sering membantu kaum pelaut. Dalam suatu kisah lainnya Poseidon juga pernah menghancurkan armada laut tentara Yunani akibat kesombongan mereka setelah memenangkan suatu peperangan.

3. Hades (Pluto)

Hades adalah dewa kematian atau dewa neraka dalam Mitologi Yunani. Hades juga dikenal dengan nama Pluto (Plouton) dalam Mitologi Romawi. Karakter Hades sering digambarkan bersama anjing berkepala tiga bernama Cerberus di dunia bawah tanah (neraka).
Di dalam kekristenan kata Hades dipakai untuk menterjemahkan kata Sheol,dalam bahasa Ibrani, yang artinya alam kubur manusia atau “dunia di bawah”. Bahasa Indonesia menerjemahkan kata Hades yang berarti alam kubur tersebut dengan kata neraka, diambil dari bahasa Sanskerta, dengan arti yang sama.

4. Hestia

Hestia adalah saudara Zeus juga. Dewi Hestia ini tidak memainkan peran apapun dalam mitologi Yunani kuno. Dewi Hestia selain terkenal sebagai dewa pelindung rumah, dia juga terkenal sebagai dewi pelindung keluarga, dan dewi perapian.

Susanou

Izanagi ordered his children,
“Amaterasu you govern Day area, Tukuyomi you govern Night area, Susanou you govern Sea area.”

But Susanou never governed.
He swept all day long and wanted to go to the Land Yomi.
Izanagi angered and said “Susanou, you are bad boy, you may go anywhere you want.”
This pleased Susanou “I can go to the Land Yomi, and meet my Mother Izanami.”

Then,Susanou visited his sister Amaterasu to say Good-bye.
But Amaterasu wondered, “My brother Susanou never governed his area,
maybe his visiting means to invade my area.”

When Susanou visited his sister Amaterasu, she wore battle dress.
Susanou wondered and asked her, “Why you wear such a dress?”
Amaterasu answerd,”I heard one rumor that you want to invade my area.”
Susanou surprised,” No, No, I never imagin such a thing, I only want to say good-bye to you,
because I’ll go to the Land Yomi.”
Amaterasu asked, “Can you manifest it ?”
Susanou said, “Allright, let’s exchanege your neckless and my sword. then doing Ukei.”

#”Ukei” is a holy rites to prove honesty.

Izanagi went to the land Yomi, to want to call back Izanami.
At there, Izanami was living in the cave.
Izanagi wished Izanami to go back to the land Takamanohara.
But, Izanami said, “I already ate foods of the land Yomi, so I’ll never go out of this land.
This is an iron law of this land.
But, I prey to God of Yomi to my returning to the land Takamanohara.
So, you must wait here for a moment, and never moving.”

Izanagi waited for a long time, but Izanami didn’t return,
Then Izanagi went into the cave.
There were Izanami lie still in death.
Her body was crawling with maggots.
Izanagi surprised and run away from the cave.
Izanami chased, “Why you are in ? You sinned against Yomi.”
Izanagi said, “You died. Never return to the Land Takamanohara.”
Izanami said, “All right. I kill your people 1000 every day.”
Izanagi answerd,” All right. I bear my people 1500 every day.”
Izanagi run away from the Land Yomi, and reached Tukushi Island (old Kyusyu Island).

Sumber: www.interq.or.jp

Ancient days, Japan was called “Wa” or “Wakoku”.

First God appeares, called “Ameno-minakanushi” who is considered the North Star nowadays.
Second God appeares, called “Takami-musubi”
Soon Goddess appears, called “Kami-musubi”
These three dessapeared sooner.

Then fourth God called “Umasi-ashikabi-hikoji“appers.
And then, fifth God called “Ameno-tokotachi“appears.
Next, sixth God “Kunino-tokotachi“appears.
And next, seventh God “Toyokuninushi” appears.

But these four Gods dessapeared sooner..

Sooner or later, couple Gods came one after another.
As,God”Uhijini“& Goddess”Suijini“,”Tunokui”& “Ikugui“,”Ootonoji”&“Ootonobe“,
and “Omodaru”&“Aya-kashikone“.
At last, “Izanagi” & “Izanami” came.

Izanagi and Izanami

These seventeen Gods, appeared or came, who were being on the land “Takamanohara“.
{The birth of Japan Islands}

In the beginning was Muspell, the realm of fire.

It is a place of dreadful light and heat. Only its natives, the Fire Giants, can tolerate its flames. Surt, a Fire Giant, guards Muspell’s border, armed with a flaming sword. At the end of the era, at Ragnarok, Surt and his companions will destroy all the Gods and and their world with fire.

Outside of Muspell lies the void called Ginnungagap, and north of Ginnungagap is Niflheim, the world of awesome dark and cold. In this world are eleven rivers flowing from a great well. The rivers are frozen and occupy Ginnungagap. When the wind, rain, ice, and cold meet the heat and fire of Muspell in the center of Ginnungagap, a place of light, air, and warmth is born.

Where fire and ice first met, thawing drops appeared. Beneath the melting ice lay a Frost Giant named Ymir. Ymir slept, falling into a sweat. Under his left arm there grew a couple, male and female Giants. One of his legs begot a son with the other.

The melting frost became a cow called Audhumla from whose udders ran four rivers of milk that fed Ymir.

After one day of licking salty ice blocks, she freed a man’s hair from the ice. After two days, his head appeared. On the third day the whole man was released from the ice. The man’s name was Buri. Buri had a son named Bor. Bor married Bestla, the daughter of a Giant, with whom he had three sons. Odin was the first, Vili the second, and Vé the third. Odin, in association with his brothers, is the ruler of heaven and earth. He is the greatest and most famous of all Gods.