Ancient History
The Norse believed that before there were humans, the world was inhabited by these creatures
Frost Giants
Coal is too easy. Instead threaten them with this a horned, anthropomorphic figure from the Central and Eastern Alpine folklore of Europe,
Krampus
Jupiter and the Bee is an example of this kind of short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.
Fable
This term refers to a belief or practice based on the idea that certain actions, objects, or events can influence future outcomes in ways not supported by science or rational evidence.
Superstition
This stage of the Alchemical Journey is the spiritual and mythological equivalent to a rite of passage.
Separation
This kind of God is a disruptor, shapeshifter, challenger of norms.
Trickster
Odysseus needed all his cunning to escape this surprisingly observant monster
Cyclops
The hero Bellerophon defeats the fire-breathing baddie by dropping lead into its throat.
Chimera
This lens of examination focuses on the structure of a myth
Form
This term is derived from the latin root words of to show and to warn
Monster
This type of journey or quest is modeled throughout mythology and generally ends with the protagonist returning home a changed man.
Hero's Journey
Every pantheon has one of these, and they are alwaysconnected to agriculture, birth, or the natural cycle.
Fertility / Earth Goddess
Ahh, Crete. Home to 600,000 people, some of the world's most beautiful beaches, and this awful creature.
The Minotaur
You can't get away from this Slavic Witch. Even her home moves faster than you can on it's giant pair of chicken legs
Baba Yaga
This informal belief or practice that arises from the desire to control uncertainty, linking unrelated events through cause-and-effect thinking.
Superstition
This is the term that defines the practice throughout history of blending or merging of different religious traditions, beliefs, rituals, and deities into a new, combined systems.
Syncretism
This stage of the process is where a solute in gaseous, liquid, or solid phase dissolves in a solvent to form a solution.
Dissolution
This wise figure appears to guide the hero with knowledge or tools
Mentor
After this Egyptian god was chopped to bits, his wife collected his body and turned it into the first mummy.
Osiris
Flourishing in the African diaspora, these ancient West African water spirits came to be known by this name in the Americas
Mami Wata
This key tenet of mythology isn't concerned with the structure of a thing or even why it exists.
Potential
This field of literary study examines how stories are told, including the various elements and techniques that make up a narrative, such as plot, characters, point of view, time, and space.
Narratology
This is the mystic predecessor of modern science
Alchemy
This Mother or Father type is the One Above All, establishing order by shaping the cosmos out of chaos.
Creator
Back in the 1960's this Virginia UFO Sighting became a legend that is still spoken of as a myth to this day, giving one small town its enduring purpose.
Flatwoods Monster
This famous river used to be the home of and shares a name with a Giant carnivorous white worm.
Indus
This famous philosopher created the categories known as archetypes, which often used to explain what type of person you are and what types of Gods there are.
Carl Jung
This term refers to the hormone released from your adrenal glands as a result of stress, causing the fight-or-flight response.
Norepinephrine
In this journey, viewed as a parallel to enlightenment, the very first stage is called this:
Calcination
Not normally a God themselves, this divine or semi-divine figure embodies values through deeds.
Hero/Heroine
The early Christian Church physically converted Statues of this Goddess into icons of the Virgin Mary, in part because she was commonly depicted seated holding an infant God which could have easily been translated into the Virgin Mary cradling Jesus as a child.
Isis
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the clinical term for this peculiar superstitious phobia.
Fear of Friday the 13th
This practice of attributing unexplained phenomena to God or a divine force accounts for the role science plays in reducing that attribution.
God of the Gaps
This term, used by mythologists, refers to a pervasive motif involving a heroic character who slays a primordial chaos “monster,” often with serpentine or dragonlike characteristics and a massive size that dwarfs humans.
Chaoskampf
The Hero's Journey was formulated by this famous academic
Joseph Campbell
In Jungian terms, this archetype is the bridge between the conscious and unconscious, often appearing in dreams and myths as a guide to transformation
Messenger / Boundary-Crosser