Mesopotamia
Gilgamesh's home city.
What is Uruk?
God with green skin who, although he was resurrected, had to stay in the Underworld as a judge of the Dead.
Who is Osiris?
God of the dead who wields the two-pronged weapon called a bident.
Who is Hades?
The chief wife/queen of Akhenaten, whose name means "The Beautiful One Has Come."
Who is Nefertiti?
Visual representations in art, usually of mythic figures, that are a means of distinguishing and identifying said figures.
What is iconography?
Snake-dragon-lion, and Marduk's pet.
Who is Mušḫuššu?
Called the "travelling soul," it's the part of the spirit that goes to the Underworld after death; often depicted as a bird, or a bird with a human head.
What is the ba?
The long, drawn-out term for the battle between Zeus and the Titans.
Purported author of Theogony.
Who is Hesiod?
What is a pantheon?
God who represents fresh water.
Who is Apsu?
Not one definitive copy, but rather a series of small personalized collections of spells meant to protect the dead on the journey through the Afterlife.
What is the Book of the Dead? (Or, the Book of Going/Coming Forth by Day)
Unbreakable oaths are sworn upon this Underworld river-goddess, who also fought alongside Zeus in the battle against the Titans.
What/Who is the Styx?
Linguist who first translated hieroglyphs by "cracking" the code of the Rosetta Stone.
Who is (Jean-François) Champollion?
Literally "the birth of order," and describes a myth depicting the origin of the universe.
What is cosmogony?
Bull of Heaven, sent by Anu on Ishtar's behalf to kill Gilgamesh and Enkidu.
Who is Gugalanna?
The battle that this "Serpent of Chaos" wages against Ra in the Underworld every night symbolizes the eternal struggle between maat and isfet.
Who is Apophis/Apep?
Children of Gaia who were born with 50 heads and 100 hands.
What are the Hecatoncheires?
Man who translated cuneiform for the first time (and danced around the British Museum naked).
Who is George Smith?
Literally "animal-shaped," used to describe the gods in the Egyptian pantheon who have animal heads.
What is zoomorphic?
The world's first named author, who composed many poems to Inanna/Ishtar.
Who is Enheduana?
This Egyptian cosmogony consists of four male frog-gods and 4 female snake-gods, and follows the pattern of the primordial waters of pre-creation, then the primordial mound, and finally the rising sun and creation of the world.
What is Hermopolis/the Ogdoad?
Snake-like monster defeated by Zeus, and the mythological reason why Mt. Etna is a volcano.
Who is Typh(a)on?
Shin-liqe-unninni compiled the tablets of this epic into a complete collection.
What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?
What is hieros gamos?