Saturday: Mythology Flashcards
An example from Greek myth was Argos, who was unable to give away the disguise of a man whom he had not seen for many years due to his sudden death.
Dog
While bathing on Cithaeron (kith-AY-er-on), this goddess turned a spying hunter into a stag, who was then devoured by his own hounds
Artemis
One figure of this event will give a gift to Skirnir, and during this event, the son of Hvedrung will suffer a similar fate.
Ragnarok
In the Odyssey, they are encountered shortly before Scylla and Charybdis, and they inspire Odysseus to tie himself to the mast.
Sirens
This man was killed on an altar by Neoptolemus, and he achieved a concession by reminding another figure of the death of Peleus.
Priam
A story from Haida myth describes how one of these figures freed women from a chiton after freeing men from a clam; that story was depicted in a Bill Reid sculpture named for this figure “and the First Men.”
Raven
Name this legendary founder of Rome who killed his brother Remus.
Romulus
According to the Haida, he brought salmon and berries to a clam shell to feed the first humans.
Raven
This god protects his daughter from having to marry Alvis by asking Alvis questions until sunrise, at which point he is turned to stone.
Thor
This man escaped from imprisonment in Knossos with his son, who drowned in the sea after flying too close to the sun
Daedalus
Name this father of Paris and Hector and husband of Hecuba, who was the last king of Troy.
Priam
Name this mythological race of creatures who were half man and half horse.
Centaurs
She appears with her sister on coffins with outstretched wings, and her pairing with Ra caused her to be conflated with Hathor.
Isis
Identify this son of Ea and slayer of the primordial dragon Tiamat, the chief god of Babylon.
Marduk
Name this Irish hero, also known as Setanta.
Chulainn
Name this husband of Rhea and leader of the Titans, whose rule was overthrown by the Olympian gods led by his son Zeus.
Cronos
his man was treacherously thrown off of a cliff by King Lycomedes of Skyros.
Theseus
Name this Greek mythological figure dramatized by Camus who repeat- edly rolls a boulder up a hill after it rolls back down each time.
Sisyphus
A Manataka story tells of how his power to conjure up buffalo meat caused embarrassment for (*) Coyote, in one of many mythologies that consider him either a trickster god or a benefactor of humans.
Raven
This deity is identified with the crocodile god Khenty-khety, and tricked his rival into eating semen and raced him in a boat made of fake stone.
Horus
This man ransomed the corpse of another of his sons from Achilles.
Priam
He later killed that brother after claiming to have seen twelve vultures, while his brother saw only six
Romulus
Identify this heart and tongue of Ra who guards his boat with Ma’at, the ibis-headed scribe of the gods who also judged the dead.
Thoth
He slew villains like the pine-bender Sinis and the bandit Sciron, in addition to bed-owner Procrustes
Theseus
One of these animals in Greek myth is Laelaps, who was converted to stone by Zeus along with its potential prey, the Teumissian Fox.
Dog
He fathered Melanippus by raping Perigune after killing her father.
Theseus
This man followed a rescue of Death by Ares, and resulted in him having to die twice, leading to his punishment.
Sisyphus
Name this type of deity, examples of which include Huitzilopochtli and Ares.
Gods of War
These people sacrificed children to their rain god and worshipped another deity whose name means “feathered serpent.”
Aztec
Due to a tryst with the Oceanid Philyra, this figure was the father of the wise centaur Chiron, and he eventually became the ruler of the Islands of the Blest.
Cronos
Name this Latin American civilization whose gods included Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, Tlaloc, and Quetzalcoatl.
Aztec
According to High, two figures from this event live on Idavoll, and they, along with others, will cast playing pieces in gold.
Ragnarok
This god is often represented as a hummingbird, while another god’s name means “Smoking Mirror” in this people’s religion
Aztecs
Those two figures were birthed from the face of another god in this tradition, who drew some islands with a jeweled spear
Shinto
This man proved his lineage by jumping down into the sea and retrieving a bauble with some dolphins’ help
Theseus
At one point, this animal becomes a cedar leaf in order to steal light from a greedy chief named Logobola
Raven
Kutkh, a recurring figure in the myths of Kamchatka natives and the Chukchi people, takes the form of this animal.
Raven
The Ogdoad placed him as the eye of Horus and a god of the moon, and his wife or daughter notched her palm to demarcate the length of a pharaoh’s life and was called Seshat, though the goddess he is more often paired with is often depicted with the Shu on her head.
Thoth
Other members of this race included Nessus, whose blood was used to kill Heracles, and the tutor of Jason and Achilles, Chiron
Centaurs
This man’s sons Lycaon (liu-KAY-on) and Polydorus were killed on the same day in the Trojan War
Priam
One of his sons was abandoned on Mount Ida after a prophecy foretold the destruction of the city of which this man was king.
Priam
He took the guise of a servant to accompany the cross-dressed Thor on a mission to reclaim Mjolnir, and at a feast hosted by Aegir, he insulted all of the gods and fled in the form of a salmon.
Loki
His skill at hurling allowed him to kill his namesake with a ball, and indirectly bound him into service to a smith.
Chulainn
In conspiracy with this god, Gaia commissioned the Telchines to make an adamantine sickle, which he used to castrate his father.
Cronos
One of this figure’s sons was Nabu, a good of writing, and his wife was called Zarpanit.
Marduk
This son of Damkina had four eyes and four ears, and since he was a childhood friend of the four winds he helped Ninurta in slaying Anzu.
Marduk
He is credited with founding the Isthmian Games, and his story is told in book eleven of the Odys- sey and also in the Iliad.
Sisyphus
His wife Merope was central to his best-known action, since at his behest she did not perform sacrifices and didn’t bury him.
Sisyphus
He wielded the Gae Bolg and had “warp spasms.”
Chulainn
In Hindu tradition, the sixth avatar of Vishnu, Parasurama, used an axe to kill Jamadagni in a dispute over one of these that could feed an army.
Cow
Name this fowl associated with Hera and known for its ostentatious tail plumage.
Peacock
This man’s father, Aegeus, jumped into the sea after seeing the black sails on this man’s ships.
Theseus
Another incident involving them occurred when one named Eurytion attempted to abduct Hippodameia at her wedding, leading to a battle between these creatures and the Lapiths.
Centaurs
This man was attending a sacrifice when his great-uncle Numitor captured his brother.
Romulus
He was made to vomit up Hestia, Demeter, and Hades, among others, after the substitution of a stone thwarted his plan to eat all of his children
Cronos
In Greek mythology, Daedalus built Pasiphae a giant wooden one of these
Cow
Name this creature, which is seen in many Native American mythologies, and is a black bird that in European cultures symbolizes death.
Raven
Preceded by six consecutive winters, Lif and Lifthrasir will hide in a tree during this event.
Ragnarok
It’s not the sun, but the [*] Aztec one of these was fathered by a ball of feathers and was notably left-handed.
Gods of War
An incident involving a chieftainess ‘ open defiance of this deity is recounted in Tennyson’s poem, “Kapiolani.”
Pele
Defiance of this deity consisted in eating ohelo berries, which are sacred to this deity without permission.
Pele
He enraged the Dioscuri when he and his friend Pirithous decided to abduct Helen and Persephone
Theseus
He appeared in special circumstances as A’an, a god of equilibrium, who was a baboon with the head of a dog.
Thoth
Name this Hawaiian goddess of lightning, fire and volcanoes.
Pele
The children of this deity were said to protect the canopic jars.
Isis
Hermes was sent to kill the hundred-eyed giant, Argos, because he was guarding Io, and after Hermes beheaded Argos, his master placed his hundred eyes onto this bird
Peacock
At Mekone (meh-CO-nay), he tries to trick Zeus by wrapping the bones of an ox inside its fat.
Prometheus
Name this Athenian hero who took Ariadne’s golden thread and killed the Minotaur.
Theseus
One story explaining their origin involves the giant son of Arestor, who was given the task of guarding a particular heifer.
Peacock
He forecasts the travels of Io in a play by Aeschylus in which he is “bound,” a punishment which results from his theft of a certain item, which he hides in a reed.
Prometheus
This man used an ant to thread a conch shell while staying with King Cocalus, with whom he conspired to kill King Minos
Daedalus
The Egyptian one, Sekhmet, is depicted as a lioness, and in Greek mythology, the god of this type was imprisoned for a year in a bronze urn, and had the children Phobos and Deimos
Gods of War
In one story, he disguised himself as a farm hand named Bolverk to gain access to a mead made from honey and the blood of Kvasir.
Odin
This figure gave Hriedmar a cursed golden ring that he took from Andvari after accidentally killing Otr.
Loki
Orpheus’ lyre saved the Argonauts from them
Sirens
One god of this people killed his sister shortly after being born to a mother who was impregnated by a ball of feathers
Aztecs
One of these from Magyar myth received sacrifices of white stallions; in addition to Hadúr, another of these had jumping priests known as Salii, and in Irish mythology, a tripartite crow flying above this is known as the Morrígan.
Gods of War
Fostered by several of his kinsmen, this man’s beauty was so great that it was feared he would steal their wives and daughters
Chulainn
Some sources call him the father of Odysseus, and all accounts give his father as Aeolus.
Sisyphus
At one point, he hung from the world tree for nine days while pierced by his own spear.
Odin
His possessions include a chariot pulled by goats, as well as a belt and special gloves.
Thor
The Morrigan tried to seduce him, and he fought against Queen Medb at the Cattle Raid of Cooley
Chulainn
This primary subject of the Enuma Elish had fifty names and defeated the beast Kingu.
Marduk
Son of Bor and Bestla, he fathered Vidar with the giantess Grid.
Odin
A father in this tradition slew an eight-headed dragon, and in another story in this tradition, hurled a pony at his sister and destroyed her rice fields.
Shinto
He used Kingu’s blood to create mankind after stealing the Tablets of Destiny from Kingu.
Marduk
In some stories, this god kicks Littur onto the funeral pyre of Baldur.
Thor
After this figure’s nephew invented the saw, this figure jealously threw that nephew, Talos, off of a cliff.
Daedalus
Born from the female spirit, Haumea and Sky God Wakea, the appearance of glass threads or fibers near a geologic formation this deity is associated with is known as her hair.
Pele
In some accounts, this man fathered Prima by Hersilia, which was the only married woman taken when this man led a group attempting to find wives among the Sabine Women.
Romulus
A pair of brothers in this tradition instructed a skinned rabbit to bathe in the sea until it was saved by another character in this tradition who slept in rooms full of snakes and insects to win the approval of his father.
Shinto
He was taught by Scathach and had a child by her sister Aife, but killed that son.
Chulainn
They are sometimes considered the daughters of Achelous, and their names are given as Peisinoe, Aglaope, and Thelxiepeia.
Sirens
These beings almost caused the death of Butes before he was saved by Aphrodite.
Sirens
The Hindu deity Murugan rides one of these creatures, and Krishna is often depicted wearing a crown including this creature’s feathers.
Peacock
One side will arrive at Vigrid via Nagalfar, while the opposing side will be summoned upon hearing the Gjallerhorn, which will be blown by Heimdall.
Ragnarok
These figures were the handmaidens to the young Persephone before she was abducted by Hades.
Sirens
In Norse myth, Garm was this type of animal.
Dogs
He was often identified with the god Asarluhi.
Marduk
In the Theogony, Hesiod describes this figure as “wily” and “ready-witted,” and his story is also told in Hesiod’s Works and Days.
Prometheus
In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the hero Caenus is killed when some of these creatures pile rocks and trees on top of him
Centaurs
