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Terms from FSU Ancient Mythology E&W
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Undergraduate 1
10/28/2013

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Titanomachy
Definition
A ten year battle between the Olympians (Zeus) and the Titans. The Olympians were residing on Mount Olympus, and the Titans on Mount Othrys. Gaia gives Zeus hundred-handers. Zeus uses this and winds+thunderbolts to defeat the Titans and throw them into Tartaros.
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Metis
Definition
Early mate of Zeus
Metis=cleverness
Zeus swallows Metis to stop her from having a son that would overthrow him
Athena comes out
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Athena
Definition
Daughter of Zeus
Cleverness+military strategy
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Typhoios/Typhoeus/Typhon
Definition
Gaia+Tartaros=Typhoios
100 headed, fire-breathing dragon
Zeus (lightning) vs. Typhoios (fire)
storm god vs. dragon-like monster
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Apollodorus
Definition
Author of The Library
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Library
Definition
mythological handbook (Greek)
probably written 1st or 2nd cent. CE
falsely ascribed to Apollodorus (2nd cent. BCE)
Pseudo-Apollodorus
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Delphyne
Definition
A dragons that guards the sinews (caves)
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Mt. Aitna
Definition
Where Zeus attacks Typhon with his thunderbolts
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Works and Days
Definition
Written by Hesiod
didactic (moral)
Farmer's almanac
folk wisdom
contains some myths
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Myth of the Races
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Race of Heroes
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Atrahasis
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Ipiq-Aya
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Ellil
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Belet-ili/Nintu/Mami
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lahmu-creatures
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Ilawela
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Shuruppak
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Namtara
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Adad
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reed hut
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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Utnapishtim
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bitumen
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Mt. Nimush
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Noah
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cypress wood
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Mt. Ararat
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berit
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Native American
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Raven
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Tlingit
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Nass River
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Kit-ka’ositiyi-qa
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Petrel
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Coyote
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Klamath
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Thunder
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aetiology
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West Africa
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Anansi
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Nyame
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Kweku/Kwaku Anansi
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Mmoboro
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Onini
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Osebo
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okyeami
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Baduasemanpensa
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Owoh
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Tsin
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Rig Veda
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Sanskrit
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Vedic people
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Agni
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Soma
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Indra
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Vritra
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Tiamat
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Sarama
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Panis
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river Rasa
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Golden Embryo
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Hiranyagarbha
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Prajapati
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Purusha
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Aditi
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Daksha
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Martanda
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Yama
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Three Days of Soma
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Chinese
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Shang (or Yin) Dynasty
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Chou Dynasty
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Han Dynasty
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Questions of Heaven
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Ch’u Tz’u
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Ch’u Yuan
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Ch’u
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Hun Tun
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Yin
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Yang
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P’an Ku
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Nu Kua
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Fu Hsi
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Kun
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hsi-jang
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Yu
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Yu walk
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Norse
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Æsir
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Vanir
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Njord
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Frey
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Freyja
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jötnar
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Odin
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Valhalla
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Asgard
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Valkyries
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Saehrimnir
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Heidrun
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Sleipnir
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Hugin
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Munin
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Yggdrasil
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Thor
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Mjollnir
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Loki
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Fenrir
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Jormungand
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Midgard Serpent
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Hel
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Prose Edda
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Icelandic
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Snorri Sturluson
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Gylfaginning
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Gylfi
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Gangleri
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Ginnungagap
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Niflheim
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Muspell
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Ymir
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Audhumla
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Buri
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Bor
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Bestla
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Bergelmir
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lur
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Midgard
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Utgard
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Ask
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Embla
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Gleipnir
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Tyr
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Utgard-Loki
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Logi
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Baldr
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Hod
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Hermod
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Thökk
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Sigyn
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Ragnarok
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Bifrost
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Heimdall
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Surt
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Vigrid
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Garm
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Vidar
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Vali
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Modi
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Magni
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Idavoll
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Hoddmimir’s Wood
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Lif
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Lifthrasir
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Viking
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Scandinavia
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Normandy
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Iceland
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Althing
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Poetic Edda
Definition
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