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"Logi - CORRECT ANSWER Fire in the form of a giant; beats Loki and Thor in an eating contest
at Utgard-Loki's hall in Ragnarok"
"Baldr - CORRECT ANSWER good and beautiful god; son of Odin; mother makes him
invulnerable to all things except mistletoe; mistletoe kills him when thrown by his brother Hod; trapped in Hel until Ragnarok -returns from hell after Ragnarok"
"Horakhty - CORRECT ANSWER > falcon
'Horus of the two horizons' = rising suns in egyptian afterlife"
"Khepri - CORRECT ANSWER god of creation, movement of the sun, and rebirth in egyptian
afterlife"
"Hathor - CORRECT ANSWER > cow goddess
female sexuality/motherhood mother (or wife) of falcon god [Horus] name literally means 'house of Horus' in egyptian afterlife"
"Ptah - CORRECT ANSWER god of craftsmen in egyptian afterlife"
"Plutarch - CORRECT ANSWER best account of isis and Osiris
gives egyptian gods greek names"
"On Isis and Osiris - CORRECT ANSWER -no full Egyptian account of myth
-succession myth -Osiris-->Horus-->as king of Egypt -Egyptian accounts do not mention wooden box (Greek does)...Seth just cuts him up"
"charon - CORRECT ANSWER Ferryman of the underworld who crosses the river of Styx to get
to Erebos in greek afterlife"
"Styx Oath - CORRECT ANSWER when gods swear an other on this place it is sacred and cannot
be broken or else they will be in a coma for a year and exile for 9 years in greek afterlife"
"erebos - CORRECT ANSWER the underworld also known as hades in ancient Greek belief"
"Tityos - CORRECT ANSWER giant who tried to rape Leto (mother of apollo and artemis) must
lie on the ground while 2 vultures eat liver in greek afterlife"
"Tantalos - CORRECT ANSWER cosmic sinner- feeds son pelops to gods
test gods so he kills own son and tried to feed it to them but it doesnt work (except for Demeter) and they resurrect the son but he is missing his shoulder always hungry and thirsty in greek afterlife"
"Odysseus - CORRECT ANSWER encounters the underworld
consult soul of seer Teiresias on how to find Ithaca and ends up bringing the underworld to him by pouring blood in greek afterlife"
"Beowulf - CORRECT ANSWER Son of Edgetho, Higlac's nephew and follower, later king of
Geats in Beowulf"
"Geat - CORRECT ANSWER Beowulf's nationality in Beowulf"
"Hygelac - CORRECT ANSWER Beowulf's uncle, king of the Geats in Beowulf"
"Hrothgar - CORRECT ANSWER King of the Danes in Beowulf"
"danes - CORRECT ANSWER Hrothgar's people; also known as shieldings because of a famous
ancestor in Beowulf"
"Heorot - CORRECT ANSWER Hrothgar's stronghold/ hall; means deer bc that is Hrothgar's
stronghold in Beowulf"
"Unferth - CORRECT ANSWER adviser to Hrothgar in Beowulf"
"Grendel - CORRECT ANSWER demon descended from Cain, terrorizes Herot- comes to kill a
man every night at the feast; killed by Beowulf with no weapons"
"Grendel's mother - CORRECT ANSWER a dragon monster who lives in a cave; attacks and kills
a dane; retrieves Grendel's arm-- is beheaded by Beowulf"
"Saehrimnir - CORRECT ANSWER special boar in Valhalla that regenerates itself when they eat
it in norse creation"
"Heidrum - CORRECT ANSWER goat who has drink mead which is honey wine in norse
creation"
"Sleipnir - CORRECT ANSWER Odin's 8 legged horse in norse creation in norse creation"
"Mjollnir - CORRECT ANSWER Thor's hammer in Norse creation"
"Loki - CORRECT ANSWER trickster god who is purely mythic; son of a giant and goddess;
father of Sleipnir in Norse creation"
"Fenrir - CORRECT ANSWER giant wolf (loki's son) that kills Odin in Norse creation"
"Jormungand - CORRECT ANSWER Midgard Serpent and child of loki in Norse creation"
"Hel - CORRECT ANSWER queen and goddess of underworld; half blue half flesh color face;
freezing place in Norse creation"
"Ginnungagap - CORRECT ANSWER the empty space/void in the beginning of Norse creation"
"Niflheim - CORRECT ANSWER cold realm in the beginning of creation in Norse creation"
"Muspell - CORRECT ANSWER fiery realm in the beginning of creation in Norse creation"
"Ymir - CORRECT ANSWER frost giant that creates more frost giants through asexual
reproduction in Norse creation"
"Audhumla - CORRECT ANSWER cow that feeds Ymir in Norse creation"
"Buri - CORRECT ANSWER Ancestor of the Norse gods. Created by the cow Audmula licking
him from ice; son is Bor"
"Bor - CORRECT ANSWER unknown frost giant mother; son of Buri; father of Odin in Norse
creation"
"Bestla - CORRECT ANSWER daughter of a giant, marries Bor, produces Odin in Norse
creation"
"Bergelmir - CORRECT ANSWER the only frost giant who didnt drown from the flood of Ymir's
blood along with his wife; took refuge in a wooden box in Norse creation"
"lur - CORRECT ANSWER "wooden box" Bergelmir and wife used to escape flood of Ymir's
blood in Norse creation"
"Midgard - CORRECT ANSWER middle enclosure where the giants live"
"ask - CORRECT ANSWER odin's brothers create humans from trees-- ash in Norse creation"
"embla - CORRECT ANSWER "elm"
Odin's brothers create humans from trees in Norse creation" hall vanishes after in Ragnarok"
"Hod - CORRECT ANSWER blind god; brother of Baldr; tricked by Loki into killing Baldr by
throwing a mistletoe at him -returns from hell after Ragnarok"
"Hermod - CORRECT ANSWER Son of Odin. Rode Sleipnir to Hel to try and rescue his brother
Balder in Ragnarok"
"Thokk - CORRECT ANSWER Loki disguised as a giantess; refuses to weep for Baldr which traps
him in Hel. Bounded to 3 stones in Ragnarok"
"Sigyn - CORRECT ANSWER Loki's wife, held a bowl to catch the poison from the snake; hit loki
straight in the face and he cries so hard it creates earthquakes"
"Ragnarok - CORRECT ANSWER "end of gods" events leading to death of gods, world's
destruction by fire; in future hasn't happened yet"
"Bifrost - CORRECT ANSWER Rainbow bridge connecting Midgard and Asgard"
"Heimdall - CORRECT ANSWER Guardian of Bifrost; blows horn to announce step 6; kills and is
killed by Loki"
"Shu - CORRECT ANSWER -god of air
-produced by Atum sneezing -father of Geb and Nut in egyptian afterlife"
"Tefnut - CORRECT ANSWER > goddess of moisture
mates with Shu --> mother of Geb and Nut in egyptian afterlife"
"Geb - CORRECT ANSWER earth god
son of Shu and Tefnut in egyptian afterlife"
"Nut - CORRECT ANSWER > sky goddess
daughter of Shu and Tefnut in egyptian afterlife"
"Osiris - CORRECT ANSWER > son of Geb and Nut
ennead overthrows seth marries Isis in egyptian afterlife king of afterlife; first mummy"
"Seth - CORRECT ANSWER trickster, force of chaos
brother of osiris; son of Geb and Nut takes a chest length of Osiris in egyptian afterlife"
"duat - CORRECT ANSWER Egyptian underworld; true underworld under the earth; to get here
go west where the sun sets"
"Ka - CORRECT ANSWER sustaining spirit of person; spirituality/ghostly double of person
needs sustenance in afterlife-- resides in heart while alive; resides in tomb for dead in egyptian afterlife"
"Ba - CORRECT ANSWER character/personality of a person; for living, with breath of life;
enters during first breath of life-- for dead flies around tomb in egyptian afterlife"
"Akh - CORRECT ANSWER -transfigured soul
-soul must take form to enter best possible afterlife
-conatins ka, ba, shadow and name"
"Pyramid Texts - CORRECT ANSWER -old kingdom royal tombs
-for kings"
"Coffin texts - CORRECT ANSWER -coffins in Middle Kingdom
-royal and non-royal dead -transformation into ka is possible -builds upong Pyramid Texts (spells keeps growing)"
"book of the dead - CORRECT ANSWER New Kingdom Egypt collection of afterlife texts"
"Anubis - CORRECT ANSWER Jackal god of mummification
escorts souls of dead and weighs their heart; if heavier than feather of Maat they are eaten by monster and become damned soul in egyptian afterlife"
"Maat - CORRECT ANSWER anubis weighs heart and compares it to this gods feather to
determine if soul should be damned in egyptian afterlife"
"Amamet/Ammit - CORRECT ANSWER monster that eats the heart if it weighs more than
Maat's feather in egyptian afterlife"
"Thoth - CORRECT ANSWER ibis-headed bird with long bill or baboon; god of wisdom and
writing serves as scribe for Osiris to keep track of souls in egyptian afterlife"
"Protestation of Guiltlessness - CORRECT ANSWER -negative confession
-if guiltlessness is accepted, akh is admitted to afterlife -judgement of dead -before Osiris, Anubis, Thoth and 42 other judges"
"psyche - CORRECT ANSWER soul/spirit breath in greek afterlife"
"psychopompos - CORRECT ANSWER soul escorter in greek afterlife"
"hermes - CORRECT ANSWER trickster
messenger travel down to underworld with souls thieves bc trickster
"Elpenor - CORRECT ANSWER The first ghost to speak to Odysseus; begs that his corpse be
given a proper burial in greek afterlife"
"Teiresias - CORRECT ANSWER drinks blood to prophecy and restored his gift of prophecy that
gives him a shot of life tells Odysseus how to get home in greek afterlife"
"Agamemnon - CORRECT ANSWER another soul who drinks the blood from Odysseus and asks
about son Orestes but the dead and living are separated in greek afterlife"
"Orestes - CORRECT ANSWER Son of Agamemnon-- asks Odysseus about his whereabouts in
greek afterlife"
"Achilles - CORRECT ANSWER greatest Greek warrior
would rather be the poorest man on earth than king of the dead died at troy asks about son (also at troy) and father in greek afterlife"
"Neoptolemos - CORRECT ANSWER achilles son- also battles at troy-- brave warrior in greek
afterlife"
"Peleus - CORRECT ANSWER father of achilles in greek afterlife"
“Anglo-Saxon - CORRECT ANSWER A Germanic people (like the Norse) who lived in the
northern part of modern day England. Worshipped many 'pagan' gods and heroes"
"old english - CORRECT ANSWER language of the Anglo-Saxons used in Beowulf but it was set
during the world of the anglo-saxons"
"England - CORRECT ANSWER christianity began here around 600
this place was Christian in Beolwulf"
"Scandinavia - CORRECT ANSWER beowulf is set here-- world of Norse"
"Ecgtheow - CORRECT ANSWER Beowulf's father-- a geat"
"pagan - CORRECT ANSWER Beowulf written with virtue of these heroes"
"Scandinavia - CORRECT ANSWER 5 countries: norway, sweden, denmark, iceland, and
finland"
"prose Edda - CORRECT ANSWER worked by Snorri Sturluson= iceland author in Norse
creation"
"Snorri Sturlson - CORRECT ANSWER Author of the Prose Edda in norse creation"
"Gylfaginning - CORRECT ANSWER - Deluding of Gylfi
section of Prose Edda from Norse mythology.
- deals with the creation and destruction of the world of the Norse gods, and many other aspects of Norse mythology.."
"Njord - CORRECT ANSWER sea god, father of twins Frey and Freyja in norse creation"
"Frey - CORRECT ANSWER (twin) god, fertility of earth in norse creation"
"Freyja - CORRECT ANSWER (twin) goddess, sexual desire in norse creation"
"jontar - CORRECT ANSWER giants that are not actually always giant in norse creation"
"Odin - CORRECT ANSWER in charge of Valhalla afterlife in norse creation"
"Valhalla - CORRECT ANSWER exclusive afterlife for people who die in battle; Odin in charge in
norse creation"
"Hugin - CORRECT ANSWER -one of Odins ravens
-"thought" tells odin news in norse creation"
"Munin - CORRECT ANSWER -one of Odin's ravens
-"mind/memory" in norse creation"
"Yggdrasil - CORRECT ANSWER a mythical tree in Norse creation; god of prophecy sacrifices
himself and hangs here for 9 days"
"Thor - CORRECT ANSWER storm god and son of odin in Norse creation; warrior and
strongman"
"Gleipnir - CORRECT ANSWER the name of the third fetter that bindid Fenrir; thin and made by
dwarves who were master craftsmen, very strong in Ragnarok"
"memphis - CORRECT ANSWER central of royal crafts shop in egyptian afterlife"
