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Homer described this wife of zeus as ox-eyed which was supposed to be a compliment

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Venus drove a flying chariot pulled by these elegant white birds

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A july 7 festival honoring this supreme roman goddess featured a sham fight by maidservants

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In norse myth this god known for his trickery is the father of hel goddess of the underworld

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He's cupid's greek counterpart

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As her name implies this nymph could only repeat the last thing she heard

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Jason spurned her for a king's daughter named creusa

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Under the name psychopompos this greek messenger god conducted souls to the underworld

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The name of this roman goddess of flowering plants lives on in our language today alongside fauna

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Before his fatal flight daedalus warned him to stay midway between earth & heaven away from the sun

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According to hesiod it was from this void that all things arose

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Leda laid 2 eggs: one with helen & pollux in it the other containing clytemnestra & him

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6 virgins attended to the sacred flame of this roman goddess

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Aegis a shield often carried by athena had the head of this hideous woman at its center

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Among this king's 50 sons were hector & troilus

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She not fauna was the roman goddess of flowering plants

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While homer said that he died in battle sophocles placed his death at colonus

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With his own enchanting music he was able to save the argonauts from the sirens

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All good egyptians believed that when they did this they became the god osiris

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After killing this greatest trojan warrior achilles dragged his body around patroclus' tomb for 12 days

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A bribe to a politician or other formidable person can also be called a sop to this watchdog of hades

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This first woman was one of the creations of hephaestus the fire god

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She was athena's roman counterpart

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He tried to marry helen but ended up with her cousin penelope

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A master craftsman he invented the ax & built the labyrinth

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Epona was a goddess of these animals so she was very popular with the roman army

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The epigoni were the sons of the seven against this city

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These singing water nymphs had the bodies of birds & the faces of women

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After he wounded venus with an arrow venus fell in love with adonis

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Polyphemus was the chief of these one-eyed greek giants

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She came to life after pygmalion created her as a statue

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The winged horse pegasus arose from the blood of this gorgon when perseus cut off her head

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In some accounts these goat-men are the sons of hermes & a naiad

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As the muse of this scholarly discipline clio probably tended to repeat herself

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In hindu mythology the 3 main deities are brahma vishnu & this one called the destroyer

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According to homer circe is the daughter of this sun god

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Now a synonym for masculine beauty he was the result of an incestuous relationship

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These half-equine creatures became uncontrollably lascivious when they drank wine

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Of the fates clotho was the spinner lachesis the measurer & atropos had this job

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Slaying a cattle thief named cacus & rescuing hesione from a monster were among his lesser labors

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When this mythological figure opened the box that released all the misfortunes of the world she shut it in time to keep hope inside

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This god was the trumpeter of the sea & his trumpet was a large shell

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In norse mythology this god of thunder lives in a 540-room mansion called bilskirnir

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Like his father apollo asclepius was a god of this discipline

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Any mortal who consumed nectar & this food of the gods would become immortal

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Gordius of gordian knot fame was the father of this man with the golden touch

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Some say she was reunited with her husband menelaus after the fall of troy

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This giant hunter pursued the pleiades & both he and they were turned into constellations

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Since no weapon could kill the nemean lion this hero strangled it

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The polynesian god who fished the hawaiian islands up from the ocean or the island lahaina's on

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Some say these one-eyed giants were craftsmen who worked for hephaestus

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In norse mythology hel the daughter of this trickster became the goddess of the dead

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A bronze giant named talos guarded this island of king minos

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This sorceress who married jason was a priestess of the underworld goddess hecate

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The roman goddess of crossroads; her name means meeting of three roads or trifling information

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She was pygmalion's statuesque wife

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Picus a son of saturn was turned into a woodpecker after he rejected this enchantress

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A huge statue bears the name of this monster that ate people who could not answer its riddle

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Because venus was jealous this lover of cupid had to go through many trials before they were united

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After losing his wings he washed up on an island known thereafter as icaria

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This greek sea god turned caenis one of the girls he loved into a man at her request

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He had a wife isis & an evil brother set

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Ajax & odysseus contended for this man's armor after he was killed in the trojan war

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An annual tribute athens had to send 7 boys & 7 girls to minos who fed them to this creature

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When this man solved the sphinx's riddle she threw herself over a cliff

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His descendants were known as the heraclidae

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Believing his beloved thisbe to be dead he killed himself with his sword

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Since he couldn't escape from king minos' prison by land or sea he devised a way to do it by air

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According to hesiod she was the last wife of zeus after metis & themis

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After killing the minotaur he took ariadne with him but left her on the island of naxos

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Hyacinthus was killed when a discus guided by this god of the west wind struck him in the head

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Like his sister cassandra helenus possessed the gift of this

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In rome virgins spent their lives tending the hearth at this goddess' temple

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Some say she was detained by king proteus & that the woman taken to troy was a phantom made to look like her

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Perseus turned a king & his court into statues by showing them the head of this gorgon

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This youth was so handsome he was carried off to mount olympus to serve as cupbearer to the gods

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Her efforts to woo narcissus were hampered by her inability to initiate conversation

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In polynesian mythology this hawaiian volcano goddess is the daughter of a nature goddess named haumea

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In return for the lyre apollo gave hermes this golden staff with coiled serpents

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The music teacher hercules murdered or lucy's thumb-sucking brother

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Sirius who later became the dog star was the faithful hound of this hunter

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Aphrodite brings this infant to persephone to foster; later as a handsome young man he becomes aphrodite's lover

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Like the astrological sign libra atropos one of the fates was represented by a pair of these

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This man with a golden touch was the son of gordius & cybele

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The color of the famous apples of the hesperides

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Heimdall a son of this great norse god can blow his horn so loudly it can be heard throughout the universe

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Orion's occupation

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One of his labors involved capturing a team of man-eating horses

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Relationship of jocasta to both oedipus & his sons eteocles & polynices

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Name of the ship that carried the heroes searching for the golden fleece

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Hawaii's valley island is named for this polynesian sun god

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This earth goddess united with her son uranus to produce the 12 titans

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When odysseus was awarded achilles' armor this hero went mad & killed himself

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When twins castor & pollux died they were placed in the heavens as this constellation

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Olympus was the home of the greek gods & this was the home of the viking gods

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Thanks to this winged horse bellerophon defeated the amazons & killed the chimaera

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This youth who loved hero drowned during one of his nightly swims to her

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Tyndareus was the mortal father of this woman for whom the greeks fought at troy

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In greek mythology this wife of zeus is the goddess of childbirth

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As a youth he was told by the oracle of delphi that he would kill his father & marry his mother

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The romans called the god of sleep somnus; the greeks called him this

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The main shrine of this roman god of entrances had 2 doors & his 2-faced statue

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In his infancy this symbol of strength strangled 2 serpents sent by hera

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In greek mythology he waits for all and you won't need your dramamine

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Part human part beast these boisterous creatures were attendants of dionysus

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He was a god of earthquakes & water before he became supreme ruler of the sea

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It's a major goddess of the babylonians or a hoffman/beatty film that met with minor success

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This greek sea god could cause springs to flow & create storms with a flourish of his trident

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Castor & this brother were known as the dioscuri or sons of zeus

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He was the father of 6 of the 12 olympians including zeus hades & hera

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Absent 20 years he was thought dead--so men headed to ithaca to woo his wife penelope

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The labyrinth was built to house this creature

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Creon preceded & succeeded this man as ruler of thebes

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This son of oeagrus sang so sweetly that wild beasts followed him

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Tradition holds that numa was the second king of rome & the successor of this founder

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Some poets described this dog as having 50 heads but he's usually shown with 3

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This greek goddess of the hunt was the twin sister of apollo

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The last greek god to be deified the romans called him bacchus

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Iphicles was the twin half-brother of this club-wielding hero

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Though usually presiding on olympus he could also be found living with the ethiopians

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In greek myth this food of the gods was delivered to zeus by doves

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This water god represented a great river encircling the earth which resulted in a body of water named for him

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Ashur was the national god of this ancient mesopotamian kingdom named for him

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5 rivers flow through hades: acheron cocytus lethe phlegethon & this one

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Believing thisbe to be dead after finding her bloody veil this youth killed himself

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Eros was the personification of this emotion

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After the trojan war it took odysseus 10 years to return home to this island

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This 2-faced roman god was always the first to be mentioned in prayers

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In post-homeric stories this sorceress bore odysseus a son named telegonus

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This man was imprisoned with his son icarus in the labyrinth by king minos

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This wife of orpheus was a dryad

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Athena carried the head of this gorgon around on a shield--not a pretty sight

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Numa pompilius became the second king of rome after the death of this founder

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This god of the west wind fathered 2 immortal horses xanthus & balius

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For him it's all day push the rock up the hill watch it fall push the rock up...

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Some legends say argus panoptes had 100 of these; that's 99 more than a cyclops

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This greek sea god was sometimes called earth-shaker

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Her epithet pallas may have come from a giant of the same name whom she slew

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This egyptian fertility god who ruled the underworld was often depicted as a mummy seated on a throne

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Son of venus this mythological figure played matchmaker with a bow & arrow

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Monster who attacked sailors in the strait of messina just opposite the whirlpool charybdis

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The sister of orestes mourning became her

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He was the last king of troy

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Wise people know that she's the roman goddess of wisdom

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In her sanctuary in the forum she was not represented by a statue but by a flame tended by virgin priestesses

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Prometheus stole this for man from heaven; maui took it from the underworld

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Her efforts to woo narcissus were hampered by her inability to initiate conversation

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Tartarus was a dark region far beneath this abode of the dead

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Hermes wears winged ones called talaria from talus latin for ankle

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After he wounded venus with an arrow venus fell in love with adonis

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He was condemned to support the heavens after supporting cronus' war against the olympians

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In greek mythology this wife of zeus is the goddess of childbirth

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The main shrine of this roman god of entrances had 2 doors & his 2-faced statue

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Apollo's son aristaeus was a keeper of these insects

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This roman goddess' greek equivalent hestia rejected poseidon & apollo & remained a maiden

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Danae gave birth to perseus after zeus visited her in the form of a shower of this precious metal

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The iliad portrays thanatos the personification of this as the brother of hypnos sleep

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Geri & freki are the 2 wolves who attend this greatest norse god

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In norse mythology this god of thunder lives in a 540-room mansion called bilskirnir

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6 virgins attended to the sacred flame of this roman goddess

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Jupiter is the roman equivalent of this greek god

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A myth about this god of flocks tells how he invented the syrinx a set of musical pipes

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Syrinx a nymph loved by this god was turned into a reed from which he fashioned his musical pipe

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In the great final battle in norse mythology fenris-wolf will swallow this chief god

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In polynesian mythology this hawaiian volcano goddess is the daughter of a nature goddess named haumea

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This norse god known for his great strength was a protector of peasants & farmers

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The name of this roman goddess of flowering plants lives on in our language today alongside fauna

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When odysseus was awarded achilles' armor this hero went mad & killed himself

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This titan who held up the heavens was the father of the pleiades

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While only some say he was born on mount lycaeus sources agree that he ruled from mount olympus

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In norse mythology hel the daughter of this trickster became the goddess of the dead

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The romans believed that twins romulus & remus were the sons of a mortal mother & this war god

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All good egyptians believed that when they did this they became the god osiris

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This great greek god was apollo's father

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Horus was the son of this egyptian goddess

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Harmonides built the ship in which he sailed to carry off helen

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Nekhbet the vulture goddess protected the upper part of this country; buto the cobra goddess got the lower

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Eros was the personification of this emotion

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This man with a golden touch was the son of gordius & cybele

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Poseidon helped this city build the walls it took a wooden horse to breach

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Venus drove a flying chariot pulled by these elegant white birds

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This chief norse god is the son of bor an early god & bestla a giantess

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Hawaii's valley island is named for this polynesian sun god

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He awarded aphrodite the golden apple after judging her the most beautiful goddess

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Some say she was detained by king proteus & that the woman taken to troy was a phantom made to look like her

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Daedalus used this substance to fasten the wings to his back

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Though usually presiding on olympus he could also be found living with the ethiopians

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This giant hunter pursued the pleiades & both he and they were turned into constellations

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Tyndareus was the mortal father of this woman for whom the greeks fought at troy

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This norse mischief-maker is chained under dripping venom & his agonized writhing causes earthquakes

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The aegis was the armor made by this supreme god from the skin of the goat that nursed him

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The romans referred to this pipe-playing god as faunus

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In post-homeric stories this sorceress bore odysseus a son named telegonus

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The most important roman god next to jupiter; in fact it is next to jupiter in the solar system

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As her name implies this nymph could only repeat the last thing she heard

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Hermes gave odysseus a magic herb called moly that protected him from this sorceress

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In the title of an ayn rand novel this mythological figure shrugged

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When this argonaut leader betrayed medea she murdered their children

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This sorceress who married jason was a priestess of the underworld goddess hecate

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He's cupid's greek counterpart

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Sleipnir was this norse god's 8-legged stallion

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When he was depicted as a child god horus son of this egyptian goddess was known as harpokrates

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Nephthys an egyptian guardian deity is the sister of this mother goddess

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Some legends say argus panoptes had 100 of these; that's 99 more than a cyclops

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N greek myth hypnos was the god of sleep; his brother thanatos was the god of this more permanent state

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The son of venus this roman god of love carried a bow & arrows to shoot his victims

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Picus a son of saturn was turned into a woodpecker after he rejected this enchantress

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This norse god is sometimes known as baleygr which means flaming-eyed

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Gordius of gordian knot fame was the father of this man with the golden touch

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The greek goddess of marriage she was fiercely jealous of her husband's frequent infidelities

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In the legends of this country hsi wang mu keeps the peaches of immortality

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Sirius who later became the dog star was the faithful hound of this hunter

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In the legends of this country a phoenix likes to roost in a woo-tung tree

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Homer described this wife of zeus as ox-eyed; it was supposed to be a compliment

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5 rivers flow through hades: acheron cocytus lethe phlegethon & this one

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Norse myth predicted that this god their chief deity would eventually be eaten by a ferocious wolf

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It's the answer to the sphinx' riddle what walks on four legs in the morning two at noon and three in the evening?

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Artemis is the greek goddess of the hunt & she's the roman goddess of the hunt

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This norse thunder god was depicted as a middle-aged warrior with a red beard

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This norse god known for his great strength sometimes wore iron gloves

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This norse trickster liked to turn himself into a salmon & frolic in franang's falls

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According to hesiod she was the last wife of zeus after metis & themis

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She had the face that launched a thousand ships; sounds painful!

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According to hesiod it was from this void that all things arose

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Heimdall a son of this great norse god can blow his horn so loudly it can be heard throughout the universe

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In rome virgins spent their lives tending the hearth at this goddess' temple

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The valkyries were maidens who attended to this god

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Name of the ship that carried the heroes searching for the golden fleece

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In hindu mythology the 3 main deities are brahma vishnu & this one called the destroyer

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The music teacher hercules murdered or lucy's thumb-sucking brother

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Buto a snake goddess of this ancient civilization is often shown with papyrus

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In the mythology of this country geb was a divine pharaoh

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The polynesian god who fished the hawaiian islands up from the ocean or the island lahaina's on

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Her abduction by paris led to the trojan war

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Athena promised him wisdom & victory in all battles if he judged her the fairest goddess

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Some say she was reunited with her husband menelaus after the fall of troy

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Tefnut a goddess of this ancient civilization had the head of a lioness

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This earth goddess united with her son uranus to produce the 12 titans

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Frigg the queen of the norse gods is married to this ruler

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The norse goddess freya had the unusual habit of weeping tears of this precious metal

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The son of cronus & rhea he's the chief god of greek mythology

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She not fauna was the roman goddess of flowering plants

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When he learned that metis was pregnant this main greek god swallowed her & athena was born from his head

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A july 7 festival honoring this supreme roman goddess featured a sham fight by maidservants

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Homer described this wife of zeus as ox-eyed which was supposed to be a compliment

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When he lost his golden touch by swimming in the river pactolus it was left with gold in its sands

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A bronze giant named talos guarded this island of king minos

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In norse mythology he sometimes used his magic hammer to bring the dead back to life

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Some sources say a corinthian mob killed jason's children but most blame this sorceress their mother

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This norse ruler of the sky had such a huge appetite he once tried to drink the sea dry

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This 2-faced roman god was always the first to be mentioned in prayers

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Son of venus this mythological figure played matchmaker with a bow & arrow

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