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