katabasis!
This is the tragic musician who lost his wife a second time when he turned around too soon
Who is Orpheus?
This is the Greek goddess of agriculture
Who is Demeter?
This is the Egyptian god of death
This person received immortality after this event in the Epic of Gilgamesh
Who is Utnapishtim, and after the Flood?
This is the (1) definition of an etiology, and (2) an example from the last half of the semester
What is the explanation of the cause or reason for something, and ... ?
This Greek hero journeyed to the underworld to visit Teiresias the seer.
Who is Odysseus?
What is Nyamwindo?
These are the two cultures that feature two different afterlife options for their dead
What are the Greek and Norse cultures?
The 'Elixir of Immortality' is from this myth and culture
What is "Chang'e", from the Chinese culture?
This is an adjective or descriptive phrase used to express a quality characteristic of the person mentioned.
What is an epithet?
This (1) hero, from (2) this myth, and (3) this culture, ventured to the slimy underworld to hide from death!
Who is (1) Ba'al, from the (2) Ba'al Cycle, and (3) Ugaritic?
This is Odysseus' mother, whom he tries and fails thrice to hug when he visits the underworld
Who is Antikleia?
Of the following underworld deities, [Mot, Yamlika, and Muisa], this one helped their myth's hero on their journey.
Who is Yamlika?
This is the (1) culture and the (2) two things from the "Tale of Buluqiya" that are magical but do NOT grant immortality.
What is (1) Arabic and (2) the two magic plants?
This is the name for divination with birds
What is augury?
This is the (1) culture, (2) myth, and (3) name of the goddess that went on a katabasis to visit her sister, queen of the underworld
What is (1) Babylonian and (2) "Descent of Ishtar", (3) Ishtar?
This is the mother who became pregnant with the Mayan hero twins, Hunahpu and Xbulanque, after she touched the fruit that grew over One Hunahpu's decapitated head on the calabash tree
Who is Blood Woman?
One Death and Seven Death preside over the underworld of this name
This is the (1) culture and the (2) one thing from the "Tale of Buluqiya" that actually grants immortality.
What is (1) Arabic and the (2) Fountain of Life?
Put a story into four steps of the hero's cycle
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These are the names of the second set of Mayan twins that ventured to the underworld to play ball with the gods.
Who are Hunahpu & Xbulanque?
This is the Greek woman who employed Demeter to nurse her child, then proceeded to flip out one night when she discovered Demeter roasting said child in the fireplace
Who is Metaneira?
This is the name of the Babylonian underworld
What is Kurnugi?
Demeter immortalizes this child, and does so through this process.
Who is Demophoon, and what is anointing and burning him in the fire?
this is how old I am
what is 24 years old?