Definitions
A long narrative poem about heroic events.
What is an Epic?
Gilgamesh and Sigurd are this character archetype.
What is a Hero Figure?
Sigmund pulls this from a tree at the beginning of the Sigurd story.
What is a Sword?
Sigurd defeats this sort of monster.
What is a dragon?
This animal becomes the earth in the Iroquois Creation Myth.
What is the turtle?
This terms means "God revealing himself through his creation".
What is general revelation?
Anansi and Loki are this character archetype.
What is a trickster?
The battle between Gilgamesh and Humbaba might represent this.
What is Good vs Evil? or
What is Civilization vs Nature?
Gilgamesh goes on a quest looking for this.
What is immortality?
Sigurd takes this cursed object from Fafnir's treasure hoard.
What is a ring?
The belief in many gods, goddesses, and spirits.
What is polytheism?
This archetypal story can be found in both Gilgamesh and the Bible, among other places.
What is a flood story?
She helps Anansi figure out how to overcome the trials he needs to complete to become the treasurer of stories from the Sky God.
Who is his wife, Aso?
The Monkey King eats/steals this from the gods in order to become immortal.
What are the Peaches of Immortality and/or the Pills of Immortality?
This is the only heavenly being who is able to really stop Monkey by trapping him under a mountain.
Who is the Buddha?
This is a story about how something came to be.
What is an Etiological Tale?
This is the character archetype for both Osiris and Odin.
What is a Dying and Rising God?
This is Isis and Osiris' son.
Who is Horus?
Anansi promises to bring Wulbari this in return for just a corn cob.
What are 100 slaves?
Gilgamesh seeks to win this in battle that will, in a sense, make him live forever.
What is Fame/Glory?
The combination of multiple religions, cultures, or schools of thought into one.
What is Syncretism?
Isis is this type of archetypal character in the story of "Isis and Osiris".
What is a Mother Goddess?
This is the punishment given to the evil brother, Bad Mind, at the end of the Iroquois Creation Myth.
What is Banishment to the Underworld?
Name one possible interpretation of the Isis and Osiris myth.
What is foreshadowing of Christ's death and resurrection; reminder of the Vegetation Cycle; origin story of mummification; or representation of the victory of good over evil?
Anansi does this to try and avoid punishment for killing the king's favorite ram.
What is he hides the dead ram in a nut tree and tricks his friend into thinking that he killed it when he shook the tree?