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Mythology Vocab Flashcards

2/22/24

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Hospitalities

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Welcoming stranger in a warm manner

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Legend

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an old story that possesses roots of fact in it

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Mythical, Myths

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A story that is not justified or believable

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Oracle

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a god’s temple where the future is told or advice is given
people

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Nectar

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Drink for the gods

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Ambrosia

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food for the gods

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Resurrection

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Rising from the dead

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Inspiration

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the act or power of moving the intellect or emotions

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Human nature

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Things that all humans

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Tyranny

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ruled over harshly, dictatorship

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Slighted

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left alone

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Thwarted

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kept from accomplishing something

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Lyre

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Musical Instrument

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Viper

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Snake

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Inanimate

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Non-living

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Animate

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Living

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Personification

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the giving to inanimate objects human attributes

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Epithets

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Glorified adjectives

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Divinties

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Gods

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Dieties

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Gods

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Contemporary

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ONe who lives at the same time as you do

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The Odyssey

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The SECOND written record of ancient greeks

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The Iliad

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The FIRST written record of ancient greeks

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Supernatural

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a belief in something beyond the normal that cannot be proven factually

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superstition

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a belief in something that cannot be proven

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Reason

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using your mind to think out things, one looks for facts and truth to explain things

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Immortal

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A god, a state where u live forever

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Mortal

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He can die

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Omnipresent

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present everywhere, in reference to gods and goddesses

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Omniscient

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all-knowing, in reference to gods and goddesses

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Omnipotent

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all-powerful, in reference to gods and goddesses

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Primitive

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Crude, an early age of the world

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Primeval

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When things first began back when man first appeared on Earth

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Prehistoric

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A time before history was written down

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