General Vocab
Creatures
Archetypes
People, Places & Things
Dragons
100
A collection of gods and goddesses specific to a culture.
What is a pantheon?
100
An Early European half-bird, half-snake creature that can kill with a single look
What is a basilisk?
100
A character who changes the world through invention or discovery.
What is a culture hero?
100
Home of the gods
What is MOUNT OLYMPUS (Greek) or ASGARD (Norse)
100
One is considered evil and must be destroyed. The other is considered good luck and should be revered.
What is an Eastern Asian version of a dragon and a Western European version of a dragon?
200
The first in a line of existence, the beginning, often the word used for the earliest god in a pantheon.
What is a progenitor?
200
A half-eagle, half-lion creature revered for its intelligence and its ferocity. A similar creature is called a shirdal in Persian myth.
What is a gryphon?
200
A personification of nature, fertility, & creation
What is a mother goddess? [also Mother Earth or the Earth Mother]
200
Coconut, a longer day, islands
What did Maui create?
200
Two theories of what may have inspired stories of dragons in ancient cultures
What is a universal fear of snakes, dinosaur fossils, or the spread of stories across time
300
The English word that comes from an Ancient Greek term for a giant sea creature
What is dragon?
300
The inspiration for the Headless Horseman in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
What is a DULLAHAN?
300
The characters (not always humanoid) that are responsible for escorting the newly dead to the afterlife
What is a psychopomp?
300
A hut on chicken legs
What is Baba Yaga's home?
300
an Egyptian symbol of a serpent swallowing its own tail
What is an ouroboros?
400
A particular type of myth explained by Joseph Campbell.
What is a hero's journey?
400
An Algonquin creature that was said to influence people toward murder and cannibalism.
What is a WENDIGO?
Some experts argue that this is a part of folklore rather than mythology.
400
A character type that is typically male, often the victim of his own jokes, creative and entertaining, he often points out society's flaws
What is a trickster
400
Sun Wukong is played by Jet Li in this movie about his story
What is Forbidden Kingdom?
400
The one sea dragon who appears in the Christian Bible
What is Leviathan?
500
DOUBLE WHAMMY: a traditional story, often explaining some natural or social phenomenon, or teaching a lesson about society, involving supernatural beings or events, often presented as true AND a traditional story typically told within a group of people or culture to entertain or teach a lesson. HINT: The two are closely related, but not the same
What is a myth AND what is folklore [or fairy tale]
Often, mythological characters change and get used in folk tales, as Baba Yaga did.
500
A spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton, supposedly created from the bones of people who die of starvation or in battle.
What is a GASHADOKURO?
500
A character who dies for the good of society, taking on the burden of society's shortcomings
What is a scapegoat
500
In Japan, the trickster is often portrayed as__________.
What is a kitsune?
500
The number of scales a Korean dragon is said to have on their backs
What is 81?
The number 9 is considered lucky, so 9X9