【正文】 s the sun god, and every day he drove the chariot of the sun across the sky. He was the god of healing and music. Finally, Apollo was a god of prophecy: the Greeks believed that Apollo knew what would happen in the future, and that he could advise people how to act. Hercules hurried to the temple where Apollo gave such advice. It was in the town of Delphi and was called the Delphic oracle. Apollo said that in order to purify himself for the spilling of his family’s blood, he had to perform 10 heroic labors (this number would soon be increased to 12). Hercules got even more bad news. Apollo declared that he had to go to the city of Tiryns. The king of Tiryns was Eurystheus. Eurystheus had a reputation for being mean, and Hercules knew that the king would give him a tough time. The hero had to serve Eurystheus for twelve years while he performed the Labors. There was some good news, though. When the tasks were pleted, Apollo said, Hercules would bee immortal. Unlike other men, instead of dying and going to the Underworld of Hades, he would bee a god. His story is of a man who was so strong and courageous, whose deeds were so mighty, and who so endured all the hardships that were given to him, that when he died, Hercules was brought up to Mount Olympus to live with the gods. Individualism and collectivism differencesMarx had said that any society’s change is produces along with the social productive forces development change. Individualism is the main line of Occidental culture, and can be divided into extreme individualism and rational individualism. As the article mentioned, the king of the gods Zeus unrestrained, and he loves affairs in the divinity and the earth。 The fifth day, God created sea creatures and birds。 and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became the fish and animals throughout the therapsids flourished during the Permian, rapidly evolving many different forms, ranging from dinosaurlike fanged flesheaters to plodding herbivores. These more metabolically active reptiles, which could survive the harsh interior regions of Pangaea, became the dominant land animals of the late Permian. There is another legend about the origin of mankind, saying that man is created by Nuwa, a goddess in Chinese mythology. The deepseated development of the creation myth is the second creation. The story that Nuwa mends heaven is the creation myth for the second time in China. The heavens Nuwa, she uses the soil to make up into a clay child, and gives them life . Herefrom, Nuwa has created person. People has happiness life. Nuwa the lonely heart suddenly warming up, she wanted to bee bustling world, around the world are made out of her hand, so we kept working, pinched one another. And that is how the universe was created.In western mythology, the days of creation were the sequence of six days during which God created the cosmos, the earth, as well as life (specifically plants, animals, and humans). The creation days were followed by a single day of rest, which is the basis for sevenday work week that is used by the majority of people on Earth. The first day, God created Earth, space, time and light。 his fur the bushes and forests。 his head became the mountains and extremes of the world。 human weak will die , survive hardships , and often have to resort to the gods , but often curse the gods do evil. The ancient Greeks criticized pride , cruelty , vanity , greed , stubborn people , and often it is these character weakness caused by the tragedy of life . The ancient Greeks worship God , but does not give the gods overly lofty , nor the gods as the moral measure of the standard , but as a refraction of life . Ancient Greek mythology, it is the spirit of this man, a moving story and deep thinking, has always attracted a large number of readers. It is worth reading a hundred times , a rich source of material for future generations of literary and artistic creation. From this point of views, myths had a more significant influence on western culture. Explanation from the western and Chinese myth contentThere are many myths about how the world first began and every nation has its own legend of the birth of man. They also cherish a tale of their origin. In Chinese mythology, Pangu was the first living being who separated the heaven and the earth. In the beginning there was nothing in the universe except a formless chaos. However this chaos coalesced into a cosmic egg for about 18,000 years. Within it, the perfectly opposed principles of Yin and Yang became balanced and Pangu emerged from the egg. Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive, hairy giant with horns on his head and clad in furs. Pangu set about the task of creating the world: he separated Yin from Yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the Earth and the Sky . To keep them separated, Pangu stood between them and pushed up the Sky. This task took 18,000 years。 Cultural Differences from Chinese and Western Mythologies Perspective1 Introduction The differences between Chinese and Western cultureCulture is the general concept of art, belief, the outlook of value, tradition and custom, and it can significantly reflect the characteristics of some societies, people, areas, or some countries. Among the parts of some certain culture, there must be a language by which people express themselves and municate to each other. Language is also an important carrier of culture, and the two are of great importance to each other. People fostered by different cultures will show their characteristic ways of language speaking and munication, owing to their different regimes, cultural traditions, the outlook of values, life styles, and ways of thinking. If we neglect the differences between various cultures and speak to westerners in the ways of our mother tongue, we might mit some inappropriateness even misunderstandings, which may bring us unsuccessful munication. In other words, we will never master and handle a language in