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African Mythology I
African Mythology II
Native American Myth I
Native American Myth II
General Concepts
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Shango
Who is the Yoruba god of Lightning & Thunder?
100
Anansi
What is the name of Africa's most famous trickster?
100
Selu
What is the name of the Cherokee Corn goddess
100
Inuit myth.
from what Native American people did the Sedna myth originate?
100
Aetiological
What sort of myth is concerned with the origin of a given practice or natural phenomenon?
200
Yo
What is the sound that created the world out of nothing (Bambara people)?
200
Enfant Terrible
What is a child endowed with prodigious powers?
200
Kanati
What is the name of the Cherokee god of the hunt
200
A shaman
Whom did the Inuit rely upon to appease the gods
200
A traditional, socially powerful narrative, through which a culture explores and/or reaffirms its main values
What is a myth?
300
Bambara vomited them.
How did the god Bambara create the earth, the moon, the sun, the stars?
300
A tyrant who killed himself in shame, and then ascended into heaven, from where he administers justice to humans
Who is Shango?
300
Earth-diving myths and emergence myths
What are the two types of creation myth in Native American Culture?
300
they came from Sedna's severed joints
Where did seals & whales originate from in Inuit Mythology?
300
A myth that tries to explain a fundamentally unjust social fact as something that is normal (and therefore just)
What is a naturalizing myth?
400
A Chamaleon
What animal acted as the messenger between the god Obatala and his father Olorun?
400
A god thrown into jail because he was mistakenly taken for a horse-thief
Who is Obatala
400
A goddess dressed in white, that introduced ritual and a new food source to Native Americans
Who is White Buffalo Woman?
400
myth from Penobscot (Maine)
Where does the First (Corn) Mother and First Father myth come from?
400
A cosmogony
What is a myth that explains the origin of the cosmos
500
A snail shell full of sand, a gold chain, a hen, a palm nut
What items did the god Obatala need to create life on earth?
500
The god who--drunk on palm wine--slayed his own army together with that of the enemy.
Who is Ogun?
500
A Fulmar
What bird (disguised as an attractive young man) did Sedna marry?
500
This baby decided to be born from his mother's side, which he pierced
Who is the grandchild of Woman who fell from the sky myth?
500
Magical Fry-bread
In the movie "Smoke Signals", what does Victor's mom feed a big crowd of indians?