Vocab Words
A long narrative poem about heroic events.
Epic
Gilgamesh and Sigurd are this character archetype.
Hero Figure
Sigmund pulls this from a tree at the beginning of the Sigurd story.
Sword
Sigurd defeats this sort of monster.
A dragon named Fafnir.
This animal successfully achieves the dive to retrieve the earth from the bottom of the ocean in the Ojibwe Creation Myth.
Muskrat
This terms means "God revealing himself through his creation".
General Revelation
Name a character who is an example of a trickster figure.
Anansi, Loki, Monkey King, etc.
The battle between Gilgamesh and Humbaba might represent this.
Good vs. evil or nature vs. civilization
Gilgamesh goes on a quest looking for this.
Immortality
Sigurd takes this cursed object from Fafnir's treasure hoard.
Ring
The belief in many gods, goddesses, and spirits.
Polytheism
This archetypal story can be found in Gilgamesh, the Bible, and the Ojibwe Creation Myth.
Flood Myth
She helps Anansi figure out how to overcome the trials he needs to complete to become the treasurer of stories from the Sky God.
His wife, Aso.
The Monkey King eats/steals this from the gods in order to become immortal.
Peaches of Immortality
This is the only heavenly being who is able to really stop Monkey by trapping him under a mountain.
The Buddha
This is a story about how something came to be.
Etiological Tale
Name a character from our mythology unit who is an example of a Dying and Rising God.
Osiris, Odin, Jesus, etc.
This is Isis and Osiris' son.
Horus
Anansi promises to bring Wulbari this in return for just a corn cob.
100 slaves
Gilgamesh seeks to win this in battle that will, in a sense, make him live forever.
Fame/Glory/Being Remembered
The combination of multiple religions, cultures, or schools of thought into one.
Syncretism
Isis is this type of archetypal character in the story of "Isis and Osiris".
Mother Figure/Mother Goddess
This is the name of the Great Mystery/God-figure who creates the first people in the Ojibwe Creation Myth.
Gitchie Manitou
Name one possible interpretation of the Isis and Osiris myth.
Reminder of the Vegetation Cycle, origin story of mummification, foreshadowing of Christ's death and resurrection, etc.
Anansi does this to try and avoid punishment for killing the king's favorite ram.
Putting the ram in a tree and then tricking his friend into shaking the tree so the ram falls down and his friend thinks he killed it.