mythology unit 5

interactions between deities and mortals

accepted by Eastern and Western religions

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.

defined the three types of global myths

explain the natural world

interactions between cities and mortals

accepted by Eastern and Western religions

an illustrated history book in Germany, was published in 1493, tells the history of the world through the visions of the Bible.

wrote the Nuremberg Chronicle

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

wrote the Shivi

describes Greek History, written in 5 century BCE

wrote Historics and was the world's first historian

the Aztec creation myth

Aztec god of the moon

Aztec god of the sun

a shared ancestry

was the first human made created from Hindu gods,and was the first Hindu King

the first emperor in China

the place where the first human was created in Aztec myth

Egyptians god of the sky

5,ooo year old book that describes Chinese mythology, history , and philosophy

has many greek and Roman mythology

a poet that wrote the Metamorphosis

the goddess of flowering trees

Greek fire god

goddess know for a terrible temper

Pele's magical stick

father

Hindu's divine manifestation

grandson of Amaterasu

the goddess that all Japanese emperors can trace the beginnings of their family tree

is the story about Dante's journey to afterlife, which is based on biblical text

the dwelling place of Konohana

the Egyptian god of the sun

the Celts god of the sun

the Polynesians god of the sun

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.

a fermented beer-like drink made from honey

known for drinking mead

the Aztec god of the air, and brought the coca tree to the Earth

a drink made from coca beans

A Buddhist monk whose eyelids mad the first tea plants

a scarecrow-like man that wants around the riverbanks to steal the souls of anyone in his reach, in Europe

a monkey-like creature in Japanese mythology that tricks children into getting too close to the water and then kills them

from Spain, is a character that takes children away in sacks that refuse to sleep

from Bahamas, he walks the streets at night and if he finds any outside, they will be doomed to ride in his cart forever

japanese symbol of benevolence

japanese symbol of purity

japanese symbol of courage

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

the categories of the sun and moon

what the the monotheistic god is

examples of polytheistic religion