The creation of man is a story of "the five races" in which according to Hesiod, the five human races were created one after the extinction of the last by the gods. The first of the five races was the Golden one, who lived in the Cronus era after was the Silver who were evil and imperfect and so Zeus destroyed them, the third was the bronze race who were fight full and brought on the awful acts of Ares (the gold of warfare), after were the heroic these people were created by Zeus and were semi-gods and were a divine and holy race and the final race was the Iron race which people suffered hardships and fatigue, Zeus then destroyed this final "holy" race. The God of the world is said to be Zeus, but how he got to be this power full was not that his father passed on and it fell onto him, but that Zeus overthrew his father! The story in which they tell this story is in Titnomacy. Which tells us that Cronus (the father of Zeus, Iasion, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, hades, Poseidon and Amphitrite) was told by Gaea that one of his offspring would over throw him he would swallow every son and daughter to ensure they would never have the chance, however when it came time for his youngest son (Zeus) to be born his mother went to a cave and gave birth to Zeus there he would grow with help from her parent they raised Zeus in the cave but once Zeus had grown he learned of his father and went to his and defeated him because Zeus was so strong, Zeus then made his father vomit all his children he had swallowed and he granted his children the power he saw fit and a benefit ( he made Hades the god of the underworld and gave him a "Cynaean" a hood made of dog skin which made him invisible.) .
Rituals.
In ancient Greece many sacrifices were done to keep the gods happy. This act would be done but a male ether publicly or privately, there was usually a priest present but it wasn't always needed.
