mythology unit 5 – Flashcards
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Pagan myth
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interactions between deities and mortals
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Sacred myth
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accepted by Eastern and Western religions
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Myth(according to OxFord dictionary)
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Traditional stories typically involving supernatural beings or creatures, which embodies and provides an explanation, etiology, or justification for something such as the early history of a society, a religious belief or ritual, or a natural phenomenon.
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Alexander Eliot
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defined the three types of global myths
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primitive
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explain the natural world
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Pagan
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interactions between cities and mortals
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Sacred Myths
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accepted by Eastern and Western religions
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Nuremberg Chronicle
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an illustrated history book in Germany, was published in 1493, tells the history of the world through the visions of the Bible.
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Hartmann Schedel
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wrote the Nuremberg Chronicle
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Shivi
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the book of the master Grand Scribe, an extensive collection of Chinese history that traces each dynasty and includes mythological beginnings, and was written between 109-91BCE
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Sima Qian
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wrote the Shivi
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Historics
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describes Greek History, written in 5 century BCE
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Herodotus
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wrote Historics and was the world's first historian
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the creation of the 5th sun at Teotihuacan
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the Aztec creation myth
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Tecucistecatl
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Aztec god of the moon
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Nanahuatzin
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Aztec god of the sun
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Ethnogenesis
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a shared ancestry
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Manu
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was the first human made created from Hindu gods,and was the first Hindu King
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Fu Hsie
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the first emperor in China
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Chicomostoc
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the place where the first human was created in Aztec myth
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Horus
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Egyptians god of the sky
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I-Ching
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5,ooo year old book that describes Chinese mythology, history , and philosophy
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Metamorphosis
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has many greek and Roman mythology
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Ovid
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a poet that wrote the Metamorphosis
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Konohana-Japanese
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the goddess of flowering trees
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Vulcan
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Greek fire god
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Pele-hawaiian
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goddess know for a terrible temper
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Pa'oe
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Pele's magical stick
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Patriarch
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father
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Manu Avatar
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Hindu's divine manifestation
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Ninigi No Mikoto
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grandson of Amaterasu
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Amaterasu
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the goddess that all Japanese emperors can trace the beginnings of their family tree
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Inferno
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is the story about Dante's journey to afterlife, which is based on biblical text
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Mt. Fuji
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the dwelling place of Konohana
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Ra
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the Egyptian god of the sun
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Lugh
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the Celts god of the sun
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Maui
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the Polynesians god of the sun
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the theories of what caused the Aurora borealis
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the spirit of the dead playing a football-like game with a walrus skull, the fires of medicine men, and the torches of giants used to light the way as they spear fish.
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mead
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a fermented beer-like drink made from honey
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Odin
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known for drinking mead
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Quetzakoath
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the Aztec god of the air, and brought the coca tree to the Earth
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Xocolotl
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a drink made from coca beans
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Bodhidharma
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A Buddhist monk whose eyelids mad the first tea plants
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Bubak
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a scarecrow-like man that wants around the riverbanks to steal the souls of anyone in his reach, in Europe
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Kappas
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a monkey-like creature in Japanese mythology that tricks children into getting too close to the water and then kills them
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Coconut Man
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from Spain, is a character that takes children away in sacks that refuse to sleep
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The Small Man
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from Bahamas, he walks the streets at night and if he finds any outside, they will be doomed to ride in his cart forever
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jewel
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japanese symbol of benevolence
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mirror
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japanese symbol of purity
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sword
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japanese symbol of courage
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Mount Saint Helens
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was said to have once been a beautiful maiden that the Great spirit turned into a volcano as a punishment on his sons for fighting over her
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siblings, husband and wife, or forbidden lovers
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the categories of the sun and moon
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omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient
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what the the monotheistic god is
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Hindus, Greeks, Romans, and Japanese
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examples of polytheistic religion
