Journey Jumble
Modern Myths
Meet These Mentors
Crossword Clues
Ancient Journeys
100

The hero leaves their known world and receives their mission

What is CALL TO ADVENTURE?

100

George Lucas and Steven Speilberg used the hero's journey format in this multifilm series, often called the Skywalker Saga. 

What is STAR WARS?

100

Name the monomyth's mentor: Harry Potter

Who is ALBUS PERCIVAL WULFRIC BRIAN DUMBLEDORE?

100

This 6-letter word describes a god, person, or animal that often presents itself to the hero, often at the first threshold

What is a MENTOR?

100

This hero fights Grendel's mother, Swamp Hag.

Who is BEOWULF?

200

The hero is filled with doubt after a series of trials and wants to leave the Special World

What is the REFUSAL OF THE RETURN?

200

Chadwick Boseman played this hero in the box office hit Black Panther and Avengers series. 

Who is T'CHALLA?

200

Up for debate is whether Dug the squirrel-loving dog or this "wilderness explorer" is Carl's mentor in the 2009 tear-jerker Up.

Who is RUSSELL?

200

This 8-letter M-word is another name for the Hero's Journey

What is the MONOMYTH?

200

In this culture's Creation Story myth, Ra creates the gods and becomes the world's first pharaoh.

What is EGPYTIAN?

300

The hero crosses over this "boundary" several times on their journey

What is a THRESHOLD?

300

This is Dorothy's Ordinary World

What is KANSAS?

300

Name the monomyth's mentor: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Who is ASLAN?

300

The hero enters the Climax at a disadvantage due to losses in this two-word hero's journey stage.

What is a CRUSHING MOMENT?

300

Some argue that this cunning trickster from Norse mythology who could change shape and gender was actually an antihero. 

Who is LOKI?

400

Where the hero returns to as part of or after the WRAP-UP

What is THE ORDINARY WORLD?

400

Name the stage when Ariel first sees Prince Eric and dreams of being "part of his world."

What is CALL TO ADVENTURE?

400

Name the monomyth's mentor: The Odyssey

Who is ATHENA?

400

5-letter word for journey, to seek something

What is a QUEST?

400

The story of Persephone's cycle of decent to the Underworld and her later return to the world of the living was used to explain this natural phenomenon. 

What is THE CHANGE OF SEASONS?

500

The hero gets back something they lost or earns something lacking in their life

What is the RESURRECTION?

500

Tony Soprano, Thomas Shelby, and Harley Quinn are this archetype, characterized by a lack of heroic traits or values

What is ANTIHERO?

500

Name the monomyth's mentor: Space Jam

Who is BUGS BUNNY?

500

This 9-letter A- word is used to describe a pattern, model or type seen across cultures, associated with Dr. Jung

What is an ARCHETYPE?

500

He told us of the epic hero's journeys of Agamemnon, Achilles, and Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey. 

Who is HOMER?