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Gods, Goddesses,
And Glorious Legends By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
- The Roman (or Greek) Pantheon contained twelve gods on Mount Olympus and two on earth. One of these gods was Jupiter, who was:
- A. God of the underworld
- B. Patron of travel
- C. Master of the skies
- The Aztecs also had a pantheon of gods. True or false: Tonacatecutli was the eternal and supreme Aztec god.
- Polynesians refer to the mythical concepts of Ao and Po, the universal forces of:
- A. Life and Death
- B. Masculinity and Femininity
- C. Past and Future
- In Norse mythology, the ruler of the gods was Odin. True or false: Odin had only one eye because he bartered the other for a drink at the Well of Wisdom.
- Goddesses of love play important roles in the legends of many cultures. Connect each goddess to her respective culture.
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| A. Tlazolteotl |
1. Egyptian |
| B. Venus |
2. Aztec |
| C. Hathor |
3. Roman |
- The Gaelic god of love was Angus Og, who himself fell in love with a magical maiden named Caer. She lived six months each year as a woman and the other six as a:
- A. Tigress
- B. Wolf
- C. Swan
- The Navajo tell of a great flood that occurred after someone stole the children of the water serpent, Tieholtsodi. True or false: The thief was Coyote.
- The heroic archetype is found worldwide. Match the following heroes with the appropriate locale.
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| A. Siegfried |
1. England |
| B. Beowolf |
2. Africa |
| C. Don Quixote |
3. Spain |
| D. Mwindo |
4. Germany |
- Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess, was born when Izanagi washed the defilements from the land of the dead out of his left eye. True or false: Tsukiyomi, the moon, was born when Izanagi washed his right eye.
- The "hitching post of the sun," intihuatana, at Machu Picchu is dedicated to the sun god Inti, who was the ancestor of his people, the:
- A. Maya
- B. Gauls
- C. Inca
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