Gods, Goddesses,
And Glorious Legends

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
© Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
  1. 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

  2. The Aztecs also had a pantheon of gods. True or false: Tonacatecutli was the eternal and supreme Aztec god.

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Goddesses of love play important roles in the legends of many cultures. Connect each goddess to her respective culture.

    A. Tlazolteotl 1. Egyptian
    B. Venus 2. Aztec
    C. Hathor 3. Roman

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. The heroic archetype is found worldwide. Match the following heroes with the appropriate locale.

    A. Siegfried 1. England
    B. Beowolf 2. Africa
    C. Don Quixote 3. Spain
    D. Mwindo 4. Germany

  9. 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.

  10. 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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