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