Gaea - Earth
Zeus - Water
Athena - Wind
Apollo - Fire
After listening to Mythos some more, Zeus starts to get bored and this is when he asks his good friend Prometheus to create ‘Man’, so he created these creatures using Gaea’s clay (earth), the sun (fire) of Apollo, the saliva (water) of Zeus to be similar feature wise to the Great Gods and finally the breathe (wind) of Athena to bring them to life.
I am considering using these 4 gods now for my project as it a clear 4 Gods whom each hold one of the four elements, however I feel that Zeus holding the element of Water is a bit off as Poseidon is the god of the Sea’s, so I feel this could become quite confusing the viewer of the work. Also as, even thought I am extremely interested and admire Gaea, she is not an Olympian, even though this may not matter as such as she is in fact Zeus’ grandmother and Athena/ Apollo’s Great grandmother, which could be so interesting as this would be 3 generations, which reminds me of my family…. I worry so much that the water element would pose issues….