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| Princess that Perseus rescues from the sea monster |
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snake in underworld in Egyptian culture
-Tries to eat Ra(sun) every night, creates everlasting fight between good and evil |
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| Personaliy, makes a person unique |
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Cult of Demeter:
-Lots of ceremonies
-Dont know what goes on due to secretism
-Hymn to Demeter explains parts of the rituals |
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Stupid brother of Prometheus
-Accepts the gift of Pandora |
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-Uncle takes his thrown, in order to return to thrown he must find the Golden Fleece
-Goes to Colchus and must complete 3 tasks:
Tame a bowl
Sow a field with dragons teeth
Fight the seeds
-(Is capable of completing these because he gets help from Midea who gives him potion that makes him invincible) |
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| Life force, passed through generations |
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-Mother of Athena
-Swallowed by Zeus |
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-Herkales kills him as one of his 12 labors
-Strangled it and killed it with one of its own talons
-wears its skin and carries a club. |
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| Righteous hero in Biblical flood story |
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| -Suggesting human characteristics for Gods |
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-Child of Oedipus and Jocasta
-Defies Creon by burying Polynices
-Draws attention to differences of Divine and human law |
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-Character in Enuma Elish
-Male sky God |
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-Goddess of love beauty and sexuality
-Born when Cronus cut of Ouranos' testicles
-"Aprho"=Foam
-Married to Hephaestus
-Rarely faithful |
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-Character in Enuma Elish
-Male sky God |
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-Goddess of love beauty and sexuality
-Born when Cronus cut of Ouranos' testicles
-Married to Hephaestus
-Rarely faithful |
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| -Exaltation of a subject to a divine level |
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-First male in Enuma Elish
-"Fresh Water"
-Plots with Mumu to kill children
-Killed by Ea |
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-Born from Zeus's head after he swallowed Metis
-Goddess of War |
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| -God after Nun in Egyptian Heliopolis |
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| -God after Nun in Egyptian Heliopolis |
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-Sent down because Gilgamesh refuses Ishtar
-Brings plague and drought |
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-Sent down because Gilgamesh refuses Ishtar
-Brings plague and drought |
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-Sent down because Gilgamesh refuses Ishtar
-Brings plague and drought |
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Sent to find Europa(sister) after Zeus carried her off
-Founder of Thebes by following a cow |
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1904-1987
-The hero with 1000 faces
-Hero Myth reflects a journey everyone takes through personal development
Monomyth- Seperation-> trials -> return
-Collective Unconsciousness- rites of passage |
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-Three headed dog that guards Hades
-Herkales had to fetch him as one of his 12 labours |
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-Beginning of Greek Creation
-Followed by Earth |
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| -explains why we perform rituals or customs |
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| -Multiple Gods viewed as one |
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| -explains the origin of the universe |
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-Impregnated by Zeus
-Perseus is born
-Arcisius(her mother) discovers she is pregnant and sends her out to sea |
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| -The essential nature of being a God |
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-Olympian Goddess of Grain, Agriculture, & Fertility
-Daughter of Cronos and Rhea
-Wife/mistress of Zeus
-Mother of Persephone
-De(earth)Meter(Mother)
-"Golden Haired" "Lovely Crowned" |
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-Warned by Prometheus to build a raft
-Women are portrayed as stupid and men smart
-Land on Mt. Paranassos
-Goes to Delphi who tells them to "throw their great mother's bones over their shoulders"
-Stones become humans |
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-God of vegetation, wine sex, music, intoxication, dancing
-Maenads/Bacchae=Female Followers
-Satyrs=Male Followers |
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-God of water, wisdom, and sorcery
-In Enuma Elish he kills Apsu and becomes king
-Gives birth to Marduk
-Makes humans out of Quingu's blood |
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-Created out of clay by Aruru
-Gilgamesh's alter ego
-Sentenced to death by Ishtar |
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-God of the air
-Installed Humbaba to protect cedar forest |
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-Mesopotamian story that was part of the New Years Festival
-First 2 words in line 1 "When on High" |
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| -Explains why something began |
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-Kidnapped by Zeus who was disguised as a bull
-Zeus reveals himself and they have an affair
-Gives birth to sons |
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-"Earth" Goddess in Greek Pantheon
-Life springs from her
-Married Uranus(heavens) |
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-Kidnapped by Zeus who was disguised as a bull
-Zeus reveals himself and they have an affair
-Gives birth to sons |
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-Earth and sky Gods in Egyptian Heliopolis creation
-part of Ennead
-Separated by Shu |
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-Son of Ninsun
-Liminal(2/3 God, 1/3 man)
-Builder of Monuments
-arrogant
-The bad shepherd |
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-Quest Jason must overcome in order to earn his fathers thrown
-has to yoke fire eating bulls, plow the field, and sow seeds of dragon teeth
-Does so with help from Medea's potion |
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| -God of underworld and area of afterlife (Persephone) |
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-Goddess sent down by Re to devour human kind
+cow, royal nurse
+women, beauty, sexuality, cheering of Re
+Mistress of the west |
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-Hera was jealous of Zeus having children so she had him on her own
-Deformed and ugly
-Thrown by Hera off Mt. Olympus
-Split Zeus's head with an axe |
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-Goddess of marriage and wife of Zeus
-gets revenge for Zeus's cheating by harming the baby or woman |
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-Parents Amphitryon and Alcmena (Zeus sleeps with Alcmena)
-Kills snakes that Hera sends to crib
-Driven mad by Hera and kills wife and kids
-In order to atone he must do 12 deeds
3:Nemean Lion, Lernaean Hydra, Cerebrus
-Died because Deinanira(wife) put Centuar blood on his robe |
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-PsychoPomp-Can transcend boundaries, escort for the dead
-Messenger God |
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| -Cosmogony beginning with Chaos, Gaia, and Eros |
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| -refers to marriage between a god and a goddess, especially when enacted in a symbolic ritual where human participants represent the deities. |
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-Not written by homer, had many writers
-has 33 hymns, including Hymn to Demeter |
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-the god with the falcon head
-leads the deceased to Osiris
-Impregnates Isis
-Fights Seth and wins sexual power=leadership on earth |
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-Zeus changed her into a heiffer to escape Hera from detecting her
-Hera demanded the cow as a present
-Hera guards her using Argus(100 eyed beast)
-Zeus sends Hermes to slay Argus |
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-Goddess of love fertility and war
-Refused by Gilgamesh so she sends the bull of heaven upon them |
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-Goddess of fertility
+mother Goddess
+Marriage, domestic arts
-Tried to bring back her husband Osiris |
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-Creator of human children out of clay on the potters wheel
-Head of ram or bull |
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-Son of Uranus and Gaia
-Overthrown by his own son Zeus after he failed to eat him |
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-Parents of Oedipus
-ordered a slave to kill him as a baby but he did not
-Oedipus killed his father and married his mother |
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| a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events |
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-Creature with 9 heads
-One of Herakle's 12 labors
-Collected its venom to use on arrows |
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| -Mountain in Arcadia where sacred rites to Zeus were performed |
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-goddess of truth and justice
-In the underworld ones heart must be weighed against her feather |
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-Female and male worshippers of Dionysus
Sparagamos-tear apart animals alive
Omogphagia-consuming raw flesh |
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-Storm God
-4 eyes
-Tallest of Gods
-Tongue of fire
-Lightening plays around him
-huge limbs
-Control of winds |
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-Jason's lover
-gives potion to make him invinsible in getting the golden fleece
-Helps him on his travels
-Kills his mistress and children |
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-Gorgon
-Beheaded by Perseus
-Used by him as a weapon |
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| -Where Noah landed the ark |
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-Spoken or written story
-Later became known as false while logos was true |
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-Cow goddess
-Mother of Gilgamesh |
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| -Group of Gods of a culture |
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| -The belief in multiple Gods |
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-Destine to couple with mother and kill father
-It is fulfilled and he is shamed
-Jocasta(mother)kills herself
-Oedipus blinds himself with 2 pins from her dress |
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-Group of 8
-4 male frogs, 4 female snakes |
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mummiform
+agriculture
+death
+laws
+civilization |
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-made to punish man kind
-Sent to Epimetheus
-Releases evil into the world
-Hope is only thing left |
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-Trickster
-Cheats zeus out of better sacrifice
-steals fire from Zeus for humans
-Zeus chains and has a vulture eat his liver out each night |
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-Daughter of Demeter
-Kidnapped by Hades
-Eats a pomegranate seed
-Must live in underworld 1/3 of the year and real world 2/3 of the year
-Queen of underworld |
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+Zeus impregnates Danae- Perseus is born
+Arcisius (Danae's mother) discovers Danae had a child
+Locked them in a box and sent out to sea
Conquers:
Medusa, Graeae, Andromeda, Polydectus |
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-In Memphis creation
-Craftsman |
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-Tiamat's lover in Enuma Elish
-Beaten by Ea
-Blood becomes humans |
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-how to determine if heroes are historic people
-took a comparative approach with hero myths to find similarities
-22 pt. scale |
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| -God who looks like an animal |
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| -The battle in which Zeus and his siblings defeated their father Cronus and the other Titans. |
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| -God that is part man and part beast |
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| -the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods |
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-First "salt water" female in Enuma Elish
-Later marries Quingu |
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-hero in Gilgamesh who survives the flood
-Challenges Gilgamesh to stay awake 7 days
-Immortal |
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-Part of Ennead in Heliopolis Creation
-atmosphere, separates Geb and Nut |
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-Supreme in solar religion
-Sun God
-Tried to destroy man kind |
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-Gambles and wins 5 extra days of the year
-Babboon
-Moon
-Knowledge
-Inventor of writing |
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-Chaos,storms, desert
-associated with evil
-opposite of Osiris
-plots to get rid of Osiris |
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-Managed to escape being eaten by his father Kronos
-Went back and made him puke up his siblings
-King of Gods
-Sex with many women |
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-Primitive Weather
-God of sky
-rain=semen seeds
-Heiros Gamos with Gaia |
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-Daughter of Uranus and Gaia
-"Mother of the Gods"
-Married to Chronus
-Ate all her children except Zeus whom she protected |
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-Lion with human head
-Guarder of Temples |
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-12 children of Gaia and Uranus
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