Pure myth is different from pure legend likewise, though legend may have gods in it. Legend is generally confined to a particular person or event, or is connected with a definite spot and a limited result; whereas myth deals with universal phenomena.
Working definition of myth
The collector or composer of myths, accordingly, posits for himself some such working definition as this: A myth is a story accounting in a fanciful way for a far-reaching natural phenomenon. The basis on which the narrator proceeds is emphatically not science, but imagination and philosophy. He pictures the activities of the universe as the conduct of personal beings, as gods and goddesses doing good or evil, creating and destroying, ruling man or ignoring him, punishing and rewarding.
A List of Deities
| Great Greek Deities | Great Roman Deities |
| Zeus | Jupiter (king) |
| Appollon | Apollo (the sun) |
| Ares | Mars (war) |
| Hermes | Mercury (messenger) |
| Poseidon | Neptune (ocean) |
| Hephaistos | Vulcan (smith who made the armor of the gods) |
| Hera | Juno (queen) |
| Demeter | Ceres (tillage) |
| Artemis | Diana (moon, hunting) |
| Athena | Minerva (wisdom) |
| Aphrodite | Venus (love and beauty) |
| Hestia | Vesta (home life) |
| Dionysos | Bacchus (wine and revelry) |
| Eros | Cupid (the lad Love) |
| Pluton | Pluto (king of Hades) |
| Kronos | Saturn (Time, who devoured all his children except Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto) |
Juno was the wife of Jupiter, Hera of Zeus, Venus of Vulcan, Aphrodite of Hephaistos.
Persephone was wife of Pluton, Proserpine was wife of Pluto, Cybele was wife of Saturn, Rhea was wife of Kronos.
Egyptian Gods
Ra—the sun, usually represented as a hawk-headed man. He protects mankind, but has nothing in common with men.