Northern Europe
The end of the world is called_____
Ragnarok
In the Kono story, this creature is given responsibility to carry a mysterious bag.
What is the creature and what is in the bag?
A bat... darkness
A gandharva and a rishi were reincarnated as these creature to fight each other in an epic battle.
An elephant and a crocodile.
Orphes does this and loses Eurydice forever
Looks back!
Frost Giant from whose body the earth is fashioned
Ymir
This brave creature swam to the bottom of the waters to bring up the oed-da (earth).
Muskrat
Name of the goddess/river who is the Milky Way and who Shiva contained in the locks of his hair.
Ganga/Ganges
Persephone eats this, sealing her fate in the underworld.
Pomegranate seed
Loki can transform into a ____ (list at least 2 things we read/watched)
fish, giant, old woman, stinging fly
The little brother tries to trap the sun to get revenge for doing this...
burning up his feather coat
This god slowly separates the earth from the heavens, growing each day for eighteen thousand years
P'an Ku
Cronos does this to his children
Swallows them! (except for Zeus)
God killed by mistletoe twig
Balder
Olokun was the goddess of ______
endless waters and wild marshes
Yin represents_____ and Yang represents______
(name at least 2 for each)
Yin = earth, dark, water, female, submissive
Yang =heaven, light, sun, fire, male, aggressive
Name two of the tasks given to Psyche
collect golden wool, fetch water from the River Styx, bring back a box of beauty for Aphrodite, sort a pile of grains
In addition to Molnir, Thor's hammer, what were the other five other gifts?
Sif's golden hair
a spear that always hit is mark for Odin
a boat (Skiblanir) that could be folded up for Frey
a ring called Draupnir that made 8 more rings every 9 nights (Odin)
a golden board that could pull Frey's chariot
Obatala climbed down the gold chain with these items to create the earth: ___________
shell filled with sand, a white hen, a black cat, and a palm nut
Name of the god who felt shame, and in trying to end his life, broke a hole in the sky.
Gong Gong
The name of the three headed dog that guards the Underworld:
Cerebus