Norse
Egyptian
Japanese
Aztec
Misc.
100

The name of the Norse god of thunder

Thor

100

The Sun God and king of all deities

Ra

100

The name of the beings that include gods and spirits who can represent anything from natural features to families.

Kami

100

The animal that became the face of the moon

A rabbit

100

The two other cultures we covered in class that aren't categories on this Jeopardy

African and Native American

200

The end of the world, according to Norse mythology

Ragnarok

200

Creature with the head of a man and body of a lion that was believed to represent their sun god.

The sphinx

200

Izanami and Izanagi are the most well-known of the brother-and-sister gods for their creation of this

The Japanese archipelago

200

The fantastical creature that Quetzalcoatl was

A feathered serpent

200

The definition of "mythology"

A collection of myths that belong to a religious or cultural tradition

300

The name of the god of war and of the dead, and the ruler of Valhalla

Odin

300

The god of the Underworld and husband of Isis

Osiris

300

One of the most famous natural features of Japan that people pilgrimage to in order to worship the kami that is embodied by it

Mt. Fuji
300

The (real) object that depicts the five worlds of the sun

The Aztec Sun Stone

300

The name of any of the mythological creatures you learned about from a culture we've covered in the class

Norse: Jötnar, Draugr, Jörmungandr, Fenrir, Sleipnir, Huginn and Muninn

Egyptian: Sphinx, Serpopard, Bennu, Ammit, Apep, Griffin

African: Grootslang, Impundul, Tokoloshe, Popobawa, Inkanyamba, Ninki Nanka

Japanese: Kitsune, Kappa, Tengu, Tsukumogami, Oni, Jorogumo

Aztec: Ahuizotl, Cipactli, Cueyatl, Tzitzimitl, Chaneque, Nahual

Native American: Wendigo, Thunderbird, Skinwalker, Bigfoot, The Great Horned Serpent, Flying Head

400

The dwelling place of the gods

Asgard

400

The god that is believed to have been the first ruler of the Underworld who was represented by a jackal but stepped aside when Osiris came to power and became the new ruler of the Underworld.

Anubis

400

The goddess of the sun who is the queen of the kami and ruler of the universe

Amaterasu

400

The number of times the Aztecs believed the world had been created and destroyed before our current world

Four times

400

The three main types (categories) of myths

Creation myths, pantheon myths, and hero myths

500

The names of the two groups of Norse gods

The Vanir and the Aesir

500

The name of the first entity who began creation by manifesting itself in the form of the sun god, Ra.

Atum

500

The story of Izanagi's journey to the Underworld to find and retrieve Izanami is very similar to the story of these two lovers from Greek mythology

Orpheus and Eurydice

500

What the Aztecs believed would cause the end of the world

A solar eclipse (a monster eating the sun)

500

Any one of the animals that play important roles in any of the Native American creation myths we read in class

Fish, birds, buffalo, a water-beetle, a buzzard, a crawfish, the raven, the whale, geese, a turtle, a beaver, a duck, an otter, and a muskrat.

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