Journey to the Underworld
The god who guided a soul to the underworld ferry
Hermes
Most destruction myths use this to destroy humanity
Flood
The reason Poseidon was so important to the Greeks
They lived on islands surrounded by water
Out of _______ came Earth and Sky
Chaos
Creation myths are mostly
Etiological
Two coins under the eyelids or tongue
In order to escape the flood, both Noah and Deucalion used this
Ark
___% of Greeks are Christian Orthodox today
98%
Because Sky hated his children, he
Shoved them back inside holes in the Earth
The greeks had many gods, making them
Polytheistic
Most souls ended up in this region of the underworld after judgement
Asphodel Meadows
Floods were used as a measure to "________ humanity"
Cleanse
The Greeks built temples to worship the gods
______ gave Zeus a poison to make Cronus vomit up his siblings
Metis
This game appears in the Mayan creation myth
Rubber ball game
The number of rivers that flowed into the underworld
5
The reason the gods destroyed humanity in the first place
Devine retribution
Name a Greek supersition
Evil Eye, Spiting, Black Cat, Hobgoblins, Tuesday the 13th, Piase Kokkino (touch red)
____ saved Zeus from being eaten by Cronus by ____
Rhea; giving Cronus a rock wrapped like a baby to eat
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written by the _____ people
Mesopotamian
Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Aeacus
The judges of the underworld
The earliest flood myth & the earliest surviving great work of literature
Epic of Gilgamesh
Food and wine are very important to the Greeks. ________ is the god of wine.
Dionysus
The outcome of defeating Cronus was
Zeus became king of the gods, Poseidon became king of the sea, Hades became king of the underworld
What MUST you have in order to really understand mythology
The culture of the people who created/follow the mythology