Egyptian
Norse
Greco-Roman
Aztec
CHALLENGE
100
What is depicted by the image below?
What is Ra's daily journey through the Duat/nightly battle against Apep? (either answer is acceptable)
100
The trickster god of mischief and deception. Has shape-shifting abilities.
Who is Loki?
100
The winged horse whose father is Poseidon and mother is Medusa
Who is Pegasus?
100
This substance was offered by the Aztecs to help the sun god Huitzilopochtli to win battle against the moon goddess Coyolxauhqui.
What is blood?
100
The Korean creator god who first separated heaven and earth and created humanity. Also the Future Buddha.
Who is Mireuk/Maitreya?
200
The goddess of magic, protection, and healing. Often depicted with a throne or sundisk headdress, and in a human form.
Who is Isis?
200
A giant wolf; offspring of the trickster god. Eventually bound by the chain Gleipnir and imprisoned underground with a sword placed vertically in his jaw.
Who is Fenrir?
200
Name three of Hecate's domains of influence.
What are magic, crossroads, moon, night, witchcraft, gateways, and necromancy?
200
This deity is ripped in half by Quetzalcoatl. Her upper body becomes the sky and her lower body becomes the earth.
Who is Tlaltecuhtli?
200
An archetype representing the feminine in three stages: the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone.
Examples: Hecate (three phases of moon), the Morrigan (three sisters Badb, Macha, and Nemain), and the Three Furies)
What/Who is the Triple Goddess?
Hint: a lot more straightforward than you think
300
The trickster god of storms, chaos, violence, and warfare. Depicted as a human with a very distinct (dog-like) animal head, and often represented with more red colors.
Who is Set/Seth?
Hint: curved snout and blocked off ears
300
The god of war and courage, born to Odin and Frigga. His right hand is eventually bitten off by the giant wolf he grew up alongside, so he uses his left to fight.
Who is Tyr?
300
Beast with impervious golden coat, killed by Heracles as one of his 12 labors.
What is the Nemean Lion?
300
The First Sun (the Smoking Mirror), shown below. His iron-like foot destroys the jaw of another god and prevents her from sinking back into the ocean.
Who is Tezcatlipoca?
300
A species of spirits that inhabited the Earth before humans created from smokeless fire. Capable of assuming human or animal form, and can be mischevious or malicious in nature.
What are the djinn/jinn?
400
This deity played a game of dice with the moon god Khonsu, and won five days of moonlight so that Nut could give birth to her children.
Who is Thoth?
Hint: Commonly depicted with an ibis head.
400
The ash tree that joins the Nine Worlds. Its branches ascend far into the heavens, and its three roots extend beyond the tree as well. Also known as "Odin's gallows" because he hung himself on this tree.
What is Yggdrasil?
400
Robber who captured travelers and either stretched their bodies or cut off their limbs to make them fit an iron bed. Killed by Theseus.
Who is Procrustes?
400
The god of rain, storms, and fertility. Known as both a benevolent and destructive deity.
Who is Tlaloc?
400
The mythological hero who is challenged by a Green Knight. If the hero strikes the knight with its axe, the knight must strike the hero with the axe in return. The axe will belong to the victor.
Who is Gawain/Gwaine?
Hint: Arthurian legend
Hint 2: Knight of the Round Table
500
Name three deities associated with the Eye of Ra (not Ra!).
Who are Hathor, Sekhmet, Bastet, Mut, and Uadyet?
500
The goddess of death and the underworld; daughter of Loki. Rules over the second realm of Valhalla.
Who is Hel?
500
When one of the two close friends is sentenced to death by a tyrant king, his friend takes his place and is fully ready to be executed in his place, impressing the king to the point of releasing them both.
Who are Damon and Pythias?
500
Skeletal, female star-demons that descended from the sky and attacked humanity during eclipses. Also protectors of childbirth and women.
What are the Tzitzimimeh?
500
Personifications of the winter and summer that engage in endless "battle", reflecting the cycle of the seasons. One King regains power at the Autumn equinox and the other regains power at the Spring equinox, perpetuating the succession.
Who are the Holly and Oak Kings?
Hint: Wiccan mythology (neopaganism)