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| -Coyote and Raven trickster gods |
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-Son of Kit-ka’ositiyi-qa
-Creator god by distribution and animals |
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-Group of people (1st people)
-Live in Alaska and NW Canada
-Originated by Nass River |
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-Important in Raven stories
-Where Tlingit people may have priginated |
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- Father of Raven
- Allows Raven to create the world |
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- A spring
-Raven tricks him with dog manure to get water, which he distributes to Earth |
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-Trickster from Western U.S.
-Klamath people
-Culture hero: distributes fire to world |
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| -Stories were brought with slaves from West Africa to United States |
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-West African trickster
-Belongs to Akan people
-Name means "spider"
-Culture Hero |
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- Sky god
- Also called Onyame
-Owns all stories
-Anansi tricks him to get stories |
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| -Secret name of Nyame's daughter that Anansi finds out to win her hand in marriage |
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| - Where the Rig Veda was written |
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-Oldest literary work of India
-Oral for centuries before written down
-Contains 1028 hyms to the gods |
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-Language of Rig Veda was written in
-Becomes Indo-Europen language |
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-Binatural god, both fire and god
- Sanskrit word for "Fire"
-Brings light to world |
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-Sacred drink
-Binatural god, both thing and god that can be consumed
-Hallucinogenic drink from unknown plant that is drank by gods |
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-King of gods
-Storm god of thunder and war
-Connected to rain and fertility
-Avid drinker of soma |
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-Male and dragon/serpent
-Holds back all water of world
-Indra killa him and uses body parts to create rivers |
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| -Her body was used to create things, and so was Vritra's body |
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-Indra's dog
-Goes on adventure to find Panis
-Trying to get back stolen cattle |
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-Demons that live beyond river Rasa
-Stole cattle of Angirases |
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-Encircles heaven and earth
-Inside it is where gods and humans live |
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-Is an unknown creator god, referred to as Hiranyagarbha
-Says to have given birth to everything |
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| - Another name for the Golden Embryo |
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-Another name for golden Embryo
-Name later added by later poets |
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-A cosmic giant/primeval male
-Dismembered by creator god to create something
-Like Tiamat and Apsu |
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-Female creative force/infinity
-Gives birth to the earth, which bears the sky |
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- Male creative force
-Gives birth to Aditi, and she gives birth to him |
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| - Be he is defeated, he dies every night when he goes down |
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- King of the dead, started as human
-First to reach death realm in heaven)
-Has 2 guard dogs |
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-Thought that it took 3 days for soul to travel to death realm
because fire burns 3 days
-Soma offered to gods |
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- Medieval Scandinavians
-Also Vikings(800-1000CE) |
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-Family of Norse gods
-Battle between the two families: AEsir and Vanir
-Both families live in Asgard |
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-Fertility gods
-Njord, Frey, and Freyja |
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-Sea God
-Father of twins Frey and Freyia |
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| -God of fertility and earth |
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-Giants
-Not always gigantic
-Tend to side with Evil
-Enemies of AEsisr and Vanir |
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-God of Death and cleverness
-Controls Valhalla realm
-King AEsir and Vanir |
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-The Hall in Asgard
-Underworld-like realm
-ONLY for warriors who did in battle their "paradise" |
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- "Æsir enclosure"
-Highest realm where gods live
-Heaven |
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-Female spirits of battle
-valkyrja="choser of the slain"
-Leads souls of dead from battle fields to Valhalla |
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-Boar that is feasted on daily by souls in Valhalla
-Which regenerates itself |
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-Goat in Valhalla that souls drink mead from
-Doesn't produce milk, instead mead |
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-Odin's 8-legged horse
-Father is god Loki, who transformed into mare and had sex with one |
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-One of Odin's ravens
-Name means "thought" |
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-Odin's other Raven
-"Mind/Memory"
-Fly around world to get Odin infor |
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-Gigantic ash tree
-"World Tree"
-Supports entire universe
-Different levels contain different realms |
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-Norse Storm God
-One of the three fates
-Son of Odin
-Warrior, strong man that protects gods from giants
-Prized possessions: hammer, iron gloves, belt |
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- One of the three Fates
-Trickster god that only exists in stories
-purely mythic (no worship)
-son of giant and goddess
-Father/ Mother of Sleipnir (odin's horse)
-Also father of: Fenrir (wolf), Jormungand (Midgard Serpent), Hel
-Outsider |
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- Enormous Wolf
-Son of Loki
-Bound on a leash like a dog by AEsir |
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-Son of Loki
-Bound on a leash like a dog by AEsir
-Put in the sea by AEsir around the earth to be neutralized |
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-Daughter of Loki that is put in Hel by AEsir
-Becomes Queen of Hel
-Her face is half black-blue(like death) |
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-Contains Norse Mythology
-Has four sections |
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| -Writer of section in Prose Edda is from Icelan |
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-Christian author from Icelan
-Only know for sure that he wrote one section in Prose Edda called Gylfaginning |
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- ="The Deluding of Gylfi"
-Longest prose narrative in Prose Edda and best narrative in Norse Mythology
-Written by author Snorri |
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-Swedish King
-AEsir(magical newcomers)
-disguises himself= Gangleri ("strider") |
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-Disguised Gyfli
-Talks to AEsir about Norse mythology in Question and Answer format.
-Frame story |
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-In the beginning of time there was a large gap or big open space
-Two realms were formed in gap |
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-Realm formed
-Cold region in North |
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-Real formed
-Hot, fiery region in Nort |
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-Interaction of Niflheim and Muspell creates Ymir a frost giant
-Muspell melting Niflheim forms Ymir |
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-Cow that melts out of Ymire
-Ymir feeds on her milk
=cow |
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-=first of AEsir
-Comes out of ice from Audhumla licking him out
-Produces Bor and Bestla |
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- Son of Buri
-Mates with Bestla to produce Odin |
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- Daughter of a giant, Buri
-Mates with Bor to produce Odin |
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| -Only frost giant that survives flood caused by Ymir's blood |
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="wooden box" that bergelmir and his wife get in durin flood
-Serves as boat |
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="middle enclosure"
-Where humans live |
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-=" outer enclosure"
-Where the giants live |
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-"ash"
-Tree used to create the first man
-Created by Odin and brothers from trees |
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-"elm"
-Tree used to create the first woman
-Created by Odin and brothers from trees |
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-=third fetter used to tie up Fenrir the huge wolf
-Made of thin silk made of thin silk made by dwarfs
-Successful |
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-Kils/killed by Garm
-Also fights dog, Fenir |
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-Giant that lives in hall that Thor and Loki go visit
-Says they have to prove they are good at something |
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-Is fire
-Beats Loki in an eating contest |
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-good, beautiful god
-Son of Odin
-Loved by all gods
-Can be hurt by mistletoe |
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| -Blindgod who isnt throwing anything. logi convinces him to throw misletoe at baldr. |
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| god that borrows sleiphner and rides it down to hel to get baldr back |
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| giant that is actually logi in disguise |
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| loki's wife. attempts to remove venom above loki's face but fails and venom drips on loki's face. loki's agony causes earthquake |
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| "end of gods" leads to death of ost gods and causes world's destruction by fire. not yet happened. |
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| rainbow bridge that connects asgard and midgar. when it is broken, final battle begins |
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| guards bridge on asgard side. has big horn that he blows when bridge breaks and battle begins |
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giant from muspell(fire realm) leads evil forces over Bifrost Bridge
-Breaking bridge starting final battle |
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-Battlefield where Ragnarok took place
-Souls from Hel were brought to Vigrid for fight |
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-Son of Odin
-Survives the fire |
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-Son of Odin
-Survives the fire |
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-Son of Thor
-Have Father's hammer(Mjollnir)
-Survives fire |
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-Son of Thor
-Have Father's hammer(Mjollnir)
-Survives fire |
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-New home for the gods
- Built by Baldar and Hod |
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-A forest where 2 humans hid from the fire
-They survive |
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-="Life"
-All human descents will come from these two humans (Lif and Lifthrasir) |
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- "Life Yearner"
-All human descent will come from these 2 humans |
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- Very secure because of its Geogrphy
-Surrounded by sea and desert |
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-One of the earliest Egyptian gods
-Falcon god
-Assoc. w/ sky, sun
- Hor= "the distance one"
-King is considered incarnation of Horus |
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-Egyptian word for "sun"
-Miday stage of the sun
-Takes journey across the sky
-overall most important god
-assoc. with many other gods (e.g.Horus) |
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-A serpent
-Force of chaos
-Person has to encounter this serpent when going to underworld |
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-Associated with rising sun (morning) falcon god
-Means "Horus of the two horizons" |
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-Associated with rising sun (morning)
=Scarab beetle god
-Which rolls dung into a ball |
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-Merges into the god Sekhmet
-Also sun god |
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-A lion goddess and goddess of war
-Has a sun disc on her head
-Very ferocious
-Connected to plague/healing |
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-Where mound is located
-Important city |
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-Binatural god
-Represents the waters of chaos
-Mind rises from water out of Nu
-Why Niles annually floods |
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-Creative force that just appeared in creation on a mound
-Associated with the sun
-Produces gods by himself by either masturbation or sneezing |
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- God of air
-Produced by Atum
-Produces Geb and Nut with Tefnut |
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-Goddess of moisture
-Created by Atum
-Produces Geb and Nut with Shu |
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-Earth god
-Mates with Nut to produce Osiris, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys |
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-Sky goddess
-Mates with Geb to produce Osiris, Seth, Isis, and Nepthys |
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-Marries his sister Isis and becomes king of Egypt
-Killed by his brother, Osiris
-Father of Horus |
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-Trickster god and force of chaos
-Tricks Osiris into a chest and kills him and cuts up body |
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-Osiris' wife
-Finds chest with Osiris inside and collects his body parts
-Brings Osiris back to life to have sex |
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-Produced by Geb and Nut
-Marries her brother, Seth |
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-First nine gods in creation
-Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys |
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- =center of royal craftshops
-Location of mound |
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- Craftsman god
-Creates world and everything in it
-patron god of Memphis
-created the non gods of Egypt |
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-wrote On Isis and Osiris.
-Greek writer in the Roman Empire
-Gives Greek names for Egyptian gods |
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-Succession myth of Kings of Egypt
-Best account of myth of Iris and Osiris |
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- Egyptian underworld
-Hoped that life was just like earth |
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-sustaining spirit of person or life force
-Spiritual double of a person |
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-character/personality of a person
-Has wings, called Ba-bird
-Mobile and flies around underworld |
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-Transfigured soul
-Goal in afterlife
-Hard to get there |
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-Old Kingdom
-Only inscribed on royal tombs, so only kings got to go to afterlife |
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-Middle Kingdom
-Spells were written INSIDE coffin of both royal and non-royal tombs |
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-New Kingdom collection of magical spells
-Written on papyrus scrolls
-Royal and non-royal tombs |
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-Jackal god and mummifying god
-Helps Isis mummify Osiris
-Escorts souls of dead to underworld and weighs people's hearts against Feather of Maat |
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-Goddess of Order and Truth
-The Feather of Maat is weighed against a person's heart to test their purity |
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| -Monster that eats your heart if it isn't pure |
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-Shown as ibis or baboon
-God
-Scribe for Osiris in the underworld
-Keeps track of who is naughty/ nice |
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| Protestation of Guiltlessness |
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-Last step before person gets akh
-Negative confession, what you didn't do wrong |
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-Can be Sumerian or Akkadian
-Believe in afterlife with numerous gates |
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-means "land of no return"
-Mesopotamian underworld |
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| -Sumerian "earth/ground" can also mean "mountain" |
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-Queen of the underworld
-Palace is at entrance
-Name means " Queen of the Great Below" |
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-Name of the demons
-If unlucky, they can drag spirits down to the underworld |
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-Name of spirits
-You become these when you die, but only if you get a proper burial |
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-Ereshkigal's son and vizier/messenger
-Name means "fate" or death |
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-Goddess and scribe for the underworld
-Records names and Spirits |
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-God of Plague, food, and war
-Underworld gods are associated were fertility |
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| -Zombies, vampires, and ghosts that haunt living if no proper funeral offerings are given |
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-Poem that has 2 versions
-Both tell how Nergal becomes king of underworld |
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-Older version of story that is 90 lines long
-Found in Egypt
-More violent
-14 gates of underworld
-Ereshkigal please with Nergal and offers throne |
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-Version 2 that is 350 lines long
-Found in Assyria
-Not as violent
-Only 7 gates in underworld
-Ereshkigal and Nergal sleep together |
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| -God that relays message that gods are sending feast to Ereshkigal |
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| Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld |
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| -Poem from 700 BCE all about the goddess Ishtar |
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-Very important Mesopotamian goddess
-3 aspects: Goddess of Sexual desire (with prostitution), war and planet Venus
-Often shown naked
-Goes to underworld, but has to come back because Earth has no procreation |
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Sumerian goddess
-Name very similar to Ishtar |
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| -Ishtar's lover that takes her place in underworld so she can go back to Earth |
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-Crosses boundaries
-Trickster, messenger, travel, thieves
-Acts as a soul escorter |
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-At entrance
-Reverse guard dog
-Three heads
-Snake for tail |
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-King of underworld
-Plouton |
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-Queen of underworld
-Daughter of Demeter
-abducted by Hades
-aka Korē |
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-Mother of Persephone
-Searches for daughter |
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-(c. 600 BCE)
-Poem where Hades abducts Persephone
-Zeus intervenes says
-->Persephone to spend 1/3 year with Hades, 2/3 with Demeter |
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-Homer
-same as Isles of the Blessed
-Paradise (in west?) |
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-Against gods
-Mortals eternally punished (Erebos or Tartatos) |
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-offense
-roll boulder
-boulder rolls back |
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-Feeds son Pelops to gods
-Tests gods
-Distraught Demeter (ivory)
-"tantalized" (fruit, water) |
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-Son of Tantalos
-Fed to the gods by his father |
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| -drinks blood of prophesy |
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-Odysseus' late helmsman
-"Find and cremate body!" |
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