Mythology;;The name of this character's daughter, or one of the names Cercysera or Aissa, was used by Achilles while he was disguised as a woman in the court of Lycomedes. His daughter married his nephew, and the couple survived the consequences the impious behavior of the sons of Lycaon; afterwards, his daughter and nephew were advised to throw the bones of their mother over their shoulders.  His wife had life breathed into her by the four winds after being fashioned from clay.  FTP, name this father of Pyrrha and uncle of Deucalion, a not-so-bright Titan who married Pandora.;;Epimetheus
Mythology;;This god was credited with saving Pelusium and forcing Sennacherib's Assyrians to retreat in the face of an army of rats.  The Shabaka Stone claims that this god, often identified with Tenen and Seker, is the Heart and the Tongue of the Ennead of Heliopolis.  He was said to have invented the "Opening of the Mouth" ritual used to reanimate mummies, and he was typically represented as a mummified figure.  This father of the god of the primeval lotus, Nefertem, was identified by the Greeks with Hephaestos.  FTP name this "Divine Artificer," the supreme god of Memphis.;;Ptah
Mythology;;He killed his sister Cilla and her infant son Munippus following a prophecy by Aesacus, his son by his first wife Arisbe.  This man's father and all of his brothers were slain by Heracles after his father refused to give Heracles the two immortal horses given in recompense for the abduction of this man's great-uncle Ganymede.  This father of Polyxena and Deiphobus was led under cover of night through an enemy camp by Hermes so that he could ransom his son's body from Achilles.  FTP name this father of Cassandra and king of Troy during the Trojan War.;;Priam
Mythology;;He once cursed his wife in her incarnation as a daughter of Mena to become a fisherwoman, then sent a servant in the form of a shark to persecute the town she was in.  In his role as Natesa, he is often depicted using one foot to crush Apasmara, the dwarf of ignorance.  His mount, sometimes considered the leader of the Ganas, provides the music for the Tandava, the dance he performs as Nataraja.  That mount, known as the guardian of all quadrupeds, is the bull Nandi.  His wife's incarnations include Daksha's daughter Sati, the golden goddess Uma, and Himavan's daughter Parvati.  FTP, name this three-eyed god, sometimes called the destroyer.;;Shiva
Mythology;;This Roman deity was sometimes identified with Tanit and Uni, and gave her name to the guardian spirit of women, the feminine equivalent of the genius.  She was given the title "Moneta" in recognition of her role in guarding the finances of Rome.  In the Aeneid, she plots the marriage of Dido and Aeneas, and opens the Gate of War when Latinus refuses to do so.  Her role in childbirth was recognized in the festival of the Matronalia, and her own children included the goddess Juventas, who was the Roman equivalent of Hebe, and the god Vulcan.  FTP, name the Roman equivalent of Hera.;;Juno
Mythology;;Pelops supposedly built the Peloponnese's first temple to this god to atone for the murder of this god's son Myrtilus.  This god appeared on the isle of Aeaea to give the herb moly to a certain hero, and later appeared on the isle of Ogygia to secure the release of that same hero.  He was the father of Eos's lover Cephalus, and of Odysseus's grandfather Autolycus.  He was born on Mount Cyllene, where he used a tortoise shell and some cow-gut to invent the lyre, with which he lulled his mother Maia to sleep.  FTP, name this Greek messenger god who carried the caduceus.;;Hermes
Mythology;;In Korean mythology, one hundred days in a cave, eating only mugwort and garlic, were sufficient to turn one of these creatures into a beautiful woman, who married Hwanung.  The nerves of these creatures were used as one of the ingredients in fashioning the chain Gleipnir.  In the Ramayana, Jambuvan led an army of these creatures into battle alongside the monkeys.  The name of a group of battle-frenzied warriors in Norse sagas came from their habit of wearing the skins of these creatures.  In Greek myth, Arcas and Callisto were transformed into, FTP, what type of animal which also suckled the infant Atalanta?.;;bears
Mythology;;The source for the central event of this tale is probably the tale of "Bricriu's Feast," in which Cuchulainn successfully answers the challenges of ath, son of Imoman, and the disguised Cu Roi.  The title characters make a pact to exchange whatever they win for three days, but the protagonist neglects to hand over a girdle given to him by the lady of Hautdesert which he hopes will save him, earning him a cut on the neck.  FTP, name this tale in which a nephew of King Arthur and the colorfully-dressed Sir Bertilak play the beheading game.;;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight|Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight
Mythology;;Her daughter was turned into a wryneck for casting a spell on Zeus that caused him to fall in love with Io.  That daughter, Iynx, was born after this character was seduced by Pan.  She helped in the escape of a group of mountain nymphs who were dallying with Zeus by keeping Hera busy with idle chatter, and Hera gave her an appropriate punishment.  She fell in love with a youth whom she followed while he went hunting, longing to address him but unable to speak first.  After he rejected her, she pined away until only her voice was left.  FTP, name this nymph who fell in love with Narcissus, who could only repeat what others said.;;Echo
Mythology;;He was born holding a torch and a knife, and was sometimes described as having 1,000 ears and 10,000 eyes.  He was one of two deities who assisted another god in weighing souls on a golden scale on the Chinvat Bridge.  He appears in Hindu mythology as an Aditya in the Vedas, often paired with Varuna, and appears as a prominent Yazad in the Avestas.  He was worshipped in artificial caves with representations of the tauroctony.  He was born from a cave or a rock, and created or fertilized the world by killing the cosmic bull.  FTP name this Iranian god of light worshipped as Sol Invictus, whose cult became popular in Rome.;;Mithra|Mithras|Mitra
Mythology;;In a story narrated by Serqet, this god is said to have concealed his true name in his stomach, but a goddess takes advantage of his advancing senility to force him to reveal it.  He was sometimes associated with the bull Merwer and the Bennu bird.  In one variant of the Hermopolitan cosmogony, he appears out of the Sea of the Two Knives seated on a lotus flower.  In the myth of the Distant Goddess, a fierce goddess known as his Eye abandons him.  His cult originated in the Egyptian town of Iunu, known to the Greeks as Heliopolis.  FTP, name this sun-god sometimes combined with Atum and Amun, considered the father of Tefnut.;;Ra|Re
Mythology;;It was assembled by a Thespian in Pagasae.  At one point, a fluttering halcyon announced that it would remain immobile until Rhea had been placated, and when it was completed, it took Orpheus's help to get it started.  Constructed of materials taken from Mount Pelion, and an oracular piece from the Dodonian oak of Zeus, it lost an ornament to the Cyaneae, or Planctae, or Sympleglades, at the entrance to the Bosporus, but it would have suffered more damage if it hadn't been for the advice of Phineus.  It was dedicated to Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth, where it was beached after returning from Colchis.  FTP, name this ship used on the quest for the golden fleece, captained by Jason.;;(the) Argo
Mythology;;In one story, he leads the hosts of 154 districts to avenge one of the three unfortunate slaps; later, he provides the material for one of the three fortunate interments.  That story features a magic cauldron previously given by this character to his opponent, Matholwch.  This character provides the means to cross the river Shannon by laying his own body across the river.  He prophecies seven years of feasting in Harlech with the birds of Rhiannon singing to his companions after being struck in the heel by a poison spear.  FTP, name this gigantic man whose talking head kept Wales safe from oppression.;;Bran
Mythology;;These people believed in an underworld named Adlivun.  In one of their stories, a god throws his daughter overboard, and when she tries to climb back in, he chops off her fingers, some of which become whales.  That god, Anguta, later has his hands and feet bitten off by the dogs of his daughter.  In another of their stories, a spirit known as Fart Man proves himself the mightiest of spirits by laying the curse of constipation on Caribou Master.  FTP, name these people who worshipped the goddess Sedna as well as Nanook, the god of polar bears.;;Inuit|Eskimos
Mythology;;This woman was the maternal grandmother of Ivar the Boneless, as her daughter married Ragnar Lodbrok.  This woman's husband died while playing a harp with his toes, after being bound in a pit full of snakes at the command of Atli.  This daughter of King Budli was stabbed by a sleeping thorn after giving Agnar or Audabrodir victory over Hjalmgunnar, who had been promised victory by Odin.  Her true love married Gudrun and then won her hand on behalf of Gudrun's brother Gunnar.  FTP, name this shieldmaiden  of who vowed to marry the man who rode through a ring of fire to claim her.;;Brynhild|Brunhilde
Mythology;;According to some sources, this man instructed Heracles in fencing, infantry and cavalry tactics.  In a Roman story, Mercury gave this hero Celeris, the brother of Pegasus.  He and his brother carried off Hilaeira and Phoebe, who were betrothed to Idas and Lynceus, this man's eventual killers.  Before his death, he was betrothed to his cousin Electra.  He could be distinguished from his brother by the absence of boxing scars on his face, and won fame as a horse-tamer.  When he died, he was allowed to share his twin brother's immortality.  FTP, name this son of Leda and brother of Polydeuces or Pollux.;;Castor
Mythology;;In one story, this character uses his mighty battleaxe to kill a snake "who knows no charm" and frightens the Anzu-bird and the "maid of desolation," Lilit, out of a huluppu-tree.  He has a dream in which he feels a strong sexual attraction to an immovable rock that falls from the heavens, symbolizing the coming of his companion, who helps him defeat the guardian of the Cedar Forest.  Later, this son of Ninsun encounters the ale-wife Siduri and the boatman Urshanabi during his quest for immortality.  FTP, name this Sumerian king of Uruk, the hero of the earliest extant epic.;;Gilgamesh
Mythology;;He punished a daughter of the river Almon by striking her mute.  That daughter, a Naiad named Lara, later became the mother of the Lares.  Lara angered this god, who was equated with the Etruscan god Tinia, by revealing that he was having an affair with a princess of the Rutuli, whom he turned into a nymph.  The sacred thunder-stone of Terminus was kept under a hole in the roof of a temple of this god, whose titles included "Feretrius," "Stator," and "Optimus Maximus."  The symbols of this brother of Vesta and Ceres were the eagle and a cluster of thunderbolts.  FTP, name this king of the gods in Roman mythology, identified with the Greek Zeus.;;Jupiter|Jove
Mythology;;The Japanese spirit known as the baku was depicted with the head of a lion, the paws of a tiger, and the body of this creature.  Hecate was often depicted with the heads of this creature, a dog, and a lion or snake.  Efnisien insulted Matholwch by mutilating several of these creatures.  Manannan mac Lir's daughter Niamh owned one named Embarr, which could travel over waves.  These animals were associated with the Celtic goddess Epona.  Epeius suggested constructing a large wooden model of, FTP, what type of animal, which the Greeks used to infiltrate Troy?.;;horse
Mythology;;On one occasion, this character killed nine men by chanting a spell to recover his stolen harp, which was known as "Oak of Two Greens" and "Four-Angled Music."  On another occasion, this son of Danu was temporarily unable to consummate his lust for the daughter of Indech because he had been forced to eat too much of his beloved porridge by the Fomorians.  His weapon had to be dragged on wheels; one end could kill nine men with one blow, while the other end of his club could revive the dead.  FTP name this father of Aengus and Bodb Dearg, known as the good god.;;(the) Dagda (Samildanac)|Dagda mor mac Eladan|Dagda mor mac Eithenn|Eochaidh Ollathair|(In) Ruad Rofhessa
Mythology;;This son of Thoosa fell in love with a daughter of Doris and tried to make himself more presentable by combing his hair with a rake and shaving with a scythe.  The Nereid he loved shared her name with a living ivory image of Aphrodite carved by Pygmalion.  He had his first experience with alcohol when he tried some heady wine given by Maro to one of his prisoners, who introduced himself as "Oudeis."  According to Ovid, he crushed Acis with a rock for love of Galatea.  He is better known for braining and eating six crewmen of a certain Greek hero, who got revenge and then escaped under his sheep.  FTP, name this Cyclops who was blinded by Odysseus.;;Polyphemus
Mythology;;The dead were thought to spend eternity adoring this god in his roofless temples, and all creatures were thought to "sleep as though dead" during his nightly absence.  He was depicted with many hands seizing offerings, or presenting the hieroglyphs of strength and life to the royal family.  Those hands appeared at the tips of beams emanating from a central red disk.  Worship of this god was promoted from a new capital city built in his honor, now known as Tel-el-Amarna.  Defined as the light coming from the solar disk, FTP name this god whose monotheistic cult was promoted by Nefertiti's husband.;;Aten|Aton|Adon|Eton
Mythology;;In honor of this goddess, Leucippe built a man-headed mechanical boar made of gold which, when pursued, took refuge in her temple and uttered the words "Spare me!"  The younger Aloeid pledged to outrage this goddess, who succeeded in getting Otus and Ephialtes to kill each other by darting between them in the form of a white doe.  Oeneus earned the enmity of this goddess when he omitted her in a customary sacrifice; in retaliation, she sent the Calydonian boar to ravage his crops.  A son of Aristaeus was killed by his pack of fifty hounds after seeing her bathing.  FTP, name this goddess who transformed Actaeon into a stag, the twin sister of Apollo.;;Artemis
Mythology;;For fourteen years, this character's sandals are kept on the throne by his half-brother, the son of Kaikeyi.  He kills Khara, the younger brother of Surpanakha, but is outwitted by Surpanakha's older brother.  This son of Kausalya and Dasaratha wins his wife in a contest by breaking Shiva's bow.  He kills Bali as a favor to Sugriva, who supports this half-brother of Lakshmana with an army of monkeys.  FTP, name this seventh incarnation of Vishnu who defeats Ravana and rescues his wife Sita in his namesake epic.;;Ramachandra
Mythology;;In one story, he is brought to one knee by Elli, and creates the ebb tide when he takes three enormous swigs from an enchanted drinking horn.  This happens after he and his companions spend a night in the glove of Skrymir.  One of those companions was his bondservant Thialfi, who loses a footrace to Thought.  On his daily trip to the Well of Urd he wades across the Kormt and the Ormt rivers since he cannot cross Bifrost.  At other times, he rides in a chariot pulled by two magic goats.  FTP, name this strongest of the Aesir who killed lots of giants with his hammer.;;Thor
Mythology;;This man's mother, a daughter of Pittheus, travelled to Troy with Helen as one of her slave-women.  This man was claimed as an ancestor of the Ioxids, who burn neither rushes nor wild asparagus, but venerate both, according to Plutarch; this line of descendants came from his dalliance with Perigune, the daughter of Sinis.  This son of Aethra killed Sinis, nicknamed the Pine-Bender, and Sinis's father Procrustes.  FTP, name this hero who used a magical ball of thread to navigate the Labyrinth, credited with killing the Minotaur.;;Theseus
Mythology;;He defeated an alarmingly large, speckled feline known as Palug's Cat.  In the tale of Culhwch and Olwen, he traps Dillus Farfawg in a pit in order to pluck Dillus's beard with wooden tweezers, but becomes indignant when his lord satirizes him in a verse.  Earlier in that tale, in his role as porter he tries to turn away Culhwch at the gate of the court of his lord, Culhwch's cousin.  In later stories, he is the son of a wealthy knight who takes in and raises the step-son of Gorlois.  While fighting in a tournament, he forgets to bring his sword, leading to his foster brother pulling out a sword from a stone.  FTP, name this rather churlish knight, the son of Sir Ector and foster brother of Arthur.;;Sir Kay|Cei
Mythology;;According to some accounts, he was the brother of Abderus and son of Opian Menoetius.  He fled to his uncle's court after killing Amphidamas's son Cleitonymus, or Aeanes, over a game of dice.  He killed the Paeonian king Pyraechmes, saving the ship of Protesilaus.  Apollo held him back from taking Troy single-handedly, and later grimly unlaced the fastenings of his corselet.  He killed Zeus's son Sarpedon, but fell shortly afterwards by the hand of Hector, inciting the wrath of his cousin.  FTP, name this constant companion of Achilles.;;Patroclus
Mythology;;As Mother Hubur, she produced a rabid dog, a fish-man, a scorpion-man, umu-demons, and an ugallu-demon.  Kishar and Anshar were her children by her first consort, the deified sweet waters, while she symbolized the primordial salt waters.  Men were created from the blood of her second consort, to whom she bound the Tablets of Destiny.  This dragon-goddess took Kingu as her second consort after the death of Apsu.  FTP, name this mother-goddess whose body was split to form the heavens and the earth in Babylonian mythology.;;Tiamat
Mythology;;One of these characters planted a pair of flowers which sprouted with a prophetic poem written on the petals.  Another was cremated by an apprentice while his soul was traveling; when his soul returned, he was forced to inhabit the body of a sick man with a lame leg, explaining his attribute of an iron crutch.  Another of these characters, a patron of barbers, experienced the "Yellow Millet Dream."  After following advice given in a dream to eat powdered mica, the sole female of the group, He Xiangu, gained the power of flight and immunity from death.  FTP, name this octet of deities from Taoist legend.;;Eight Immortals|Ba Xian|Pa Hsien
Mythology;;The shepherd Molorchus sacrificed to Savior Zeus in celebration of this creature's death.  According to some sources, the Bambinaeans suffered the depradations of this creature, which was born by Selene and then dropped from the moon.  Its killer used a net to cover one of the two entrances to its cave, then strangled it after failing to wound it with various weapons.  Its skin was proof against iron, bronze, and stone, and its killer finally skinned it with its own claws, then wore its pelt as a cloak.  FTP, name this creature killed by Hercules, a monstrous feline.;;Nemean Lion
Mythology;;The giant Hrungnir drunkenly boasts that he will pick it up and carry it off to Jotunheim.  This place is home to the hart Eikthyrnir, who eats the branches of the tree Laerad.  This place is also home to the cauldron Eldhrimnir, in which the boar Saehrimnir is boiled each day, and to a goat which supplies a cauldron's worth of mead every day.  That goat, Heidrun, is sometimes said to live on its roof of golden shields.  Every day, its inhabitants, the einherjar, go out to fight each other.  FTP, name this "hall of the slain" where Odin welcomes the souls of brave warriors.;;Valhalla
Mythology;;Once, when this man was a baby, a stream of ants carried grains of wheat up the side of his cradle and placed them between his lips while he slept.  He founded the city of Ancyra after the death of his adoptive father Gordius.  He committed suicide by drinking bull's blood after learning that everyone was aware of his disgrace, which he tried to hide with a Phrygian cap.  His kind treatment of Silenus earned him a reward, but he soon visited the river Pactolus to wash away the gift.  FTP, name this king who asked Dionysus for the gift of the golden touch.;;Midas
Mythology;;In one story, one of these creatures utters a terrible scream each Mayday, causing miscarriages and spreading barrennness over an entire island.  In that story, Lleuelys advises Llud to use a vatful of good mead covered by silk to capture two of these creatures in the form of two piglets.  Those two creatures were later responsible for the subsidence of a hill in Snowdonia, confounding the construction of a stronghold for Vortigern.  Another one, which began ravaging the countryside after a serving-man stole a cup from it while it was sleeping, was killed with the help of Wiglaf.  Beowulf was killed by, FTP, what type of creature mentioned in the title of Uther?.;;dragons
Mythology;;The Dakinis are attendants of this goddess.  She lends her name to the current age, in which kings inflict death on women, children and cows, and Dharma is one-legged and helpless.  She has a tusked face with a fearsome brow bearing a third eye, and by some accounts, she sprang from the brow of Durga.  To defeat the demon Raktavira, she had to hold him up, pierce him with a spear, and drink all his blood, sparking her thirst for blood.  She is often depicted with her tongue protruding in her blood-smeared face, wearing a belt of demon hands, earrings made from the corpses of children, and a skull necklace.  FTP, name this black goddess worshipped by the Thuggee, the terrible aspect of Shiva's wife Devi.;;Kali
Mythology;;He offered a golden crown to any bull that could beat Agelaus's champion bull, and soon after awarded the crown to Ares without complaint.  Prior to his birth, his mother dreamed that she gave birth to a firebrand from which wriggled a horde of fiery serpents.  His fairness in rewarding Ares led to his being selected to settle a dispute on Mount Gargarus in which he was offered dominion over Asia by one claimant, but he decided in favor of Aphrodite, who promised him the fairest woman in the world.  FTP, name this Trojan prince who stole Helen from Menelaus.;;Paris|Alexander|Alexandros
Mythology;;His domain was sometimes said to contain a tree with breast-shaped fruit, which was the destination of children who died young.  The few survivors from his turn as supreme deity were transformed into dogs, turkeys and butterflies at the end of the Third Sun.  People headed for his domain were buried with a stick, which would immediately sprout flowers and leaves in his paradise, which accepted people who had died by dropsy.  Often portrayed pouring water from a vessel, FTP name this Aztec god who received annual sacrifices of drowned children.;;Tlaloc
Mythology;;During a battle, a half-brother of this character targeted him with a javelin possessed by a snake once injured by this character, but the snake's hatred caused the javelin to fly too fast.  He made such an impression on a King of the Panchalas whom he captured that the king asked Brahma for a daughter who would marry this son of Indra.  This killer of Karna shot 5 arrows through a ring to win the hand of that king's daughter, Draupadi.  FTP, name this warrior prince featured in the Bhagavad Gita along with his charioteer Krishna.;;Arjuna
Mythology;;She was identified with the destructive heat of the sun, raining down plague with her arrows, and her cult became associated with bone-setters.  A calendar warns against seeing a mouse on the 12th Tybi, a hostile day, because on that day, Hathor or this goddess was given a terrible order by Ra.  She was distracted from her task by seeing her reflection in seven thousand jugs of pomegranate juice mixed with beer, then got too drunk to continue slaughtering mankind.  Worshipped as the wife of Ptah in Memphis, FTP name this fierce goddess of war, portrayed with the head of a lioness.;;Sekhmet|Sakhmis
Mythology;;Seven of these creatures, known as the Gasterocheires, accompanied Proetus from Lycia to Tiryns, which they helped fortify.  Three of them were freed when one of their nephews, following a prophecy made by their mother, killed Campe, the monster set to guard them.  Those three were later killed by Apollo in revenge for the death of Asclepius.  Later generations lived as lawless shepherds, having lost the art of smithcraft possessed by Steropes, Brontes, and Arges, whose works included the bow of Artemis, and the trident of Poseidon.  Also responsible for making Zeus's thunder bolts, FTP name these one-eyed giants.;;Cyclopes|Cyclops
Mythology;;According to some accounts, she killed the sons of her son-in-law Polymnestor and plucked out Polymnestor's eyes, then transformed herself into a creature named Maera.  Other accounts state that she died and was buried at a site called "The Bitch's Tomb."  In the first version, she attacks Polymnestor for killing her son Polydorus; in the second version, this former queen dies after being made the slave of Odysseus.  Her 19 sons included the prophet Helenus, and Troilus.  FTP name this mother of Paris, the wife of the Trojan king Priam.;;Hecuba|Hecabe
Mythology;;His wife was the daughter of Nep, and his son was renowned for settling disputes in the hall Glitnir.  The giant Vafthrudnir was stumped by a riddle asking what this character's father whispered into his ear on a certain occasion.  That occasion saw the death of the dwarf Lit on a ship launched by the ogress Hyrrokkin.  Skadi chose Njord on the basis of Njord's clean white feet, hoping she would get this god.  FTP, name this resident of the hall Breidablik and husband of Nanna whose death came at the hands of his blind brother Hodur.;;Baldur
Mythology;;When this man died, Artemis turned all but two of his grieving sisters into guinea fowl.  One of the two sisters who retained her human form was later abducted by the lecherous Nessus, after marrying Heracles.  He married Idas's daughter Cleopatra, but fell in love with a woman who was determined not to marry.  When his mother learned that he had killed Toxeus and Plexippus, she killed him by setting fire to the contents of a chest.  FTP, name this hero whose mother Althaea was told by the Fates that he would live as long as a certain piece of wood remained intact, the slayer of the Calydonian Boar.;;Meleager
Mythology;;According to some accounts, this man had a hereditary mission of hunting a creature which made the noise of thirty pairs of hounds whenever it moved.  He killed the King of Orkney during the battle of Terrabil, and during a joust he shattered the Sword from the Stone.  This father of Sir Lamorak met Arthur while pursuing a creature with the head of a snake, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, and the hooves of a hart.  FTP, name this king, sometimes said to be the father of Percival, who perpetually hunted the Questing Beast.;;(King) Pellinore
Mythology;;The coming of the Korean hero Pak Hyeokkeose was signaled by a great white horse bowing before one of these.  The Chinese primordial giant Pan-Gu created the heaven and earth by pushing apart two pieces of one of these.  In Russian myth, one of these inside a duck, inside a hare, inside an iron chest was said to contain the fiery soul of the sorcerer-giant Koshchei the Deathless.  The goddess Ammavaru produced one from which the Trimurti were born.  The Dioscuri were born from one of these resulting from the union of the wife of Tyndareus with a god in the shape of swan.  The heroes Castor and Pollux were hatched from, FTP, what type of ovoid reproductive vessel?.;;(an) eggs
Mythology;;The founding myth of these people involves four brothers and four sisters emerging from the central cave of the Tavern of Dawn.  One of the brothers, known as "the salty one," is treacherously sealed in a cave, while another brother, known as "the peppery one," touches an idol and is petrified.  In the stories of these people, the sun god gives the original eight siblings a golden rod which sinks into the ground, and Mama-occlo's brother-husband founds a capital on the site.  FTP, name these people whose first leader, Ayar-manco, built the House of the Sun, a temple to Viracocha, in Cuzco.;;Inca
Mythology;;The Greek counterpart of this Roman figure was sometimes said to have made use of an item crafted by the Telchines.  This cult partner of Lua ruled over a "race of men sprung from tree trunks / and sturdy oaks," according to Evander.  He was frequently associated with the cult partner of Consus, and was considered to be the father of Picus and Veritas.  He was believed to have ruled over a golden age in Latium after finding shelter with Janus while fleeing his son.  Slaves were given freedom of speech during the great festival of, FTP, what Roman equivalent of the Greek Titan Cronus?.;;Saturnus
Mythology;;Some of these creatures featured prominently, along with a sacred tree sprung from a Dodonian acorn, in a prayer to Zeus proffered by the father of Telamon after Hera sent a drought and an infestation of poisonous serpents to Aegina.  One of these creatures was used by a guest of Cocalus, along with some honey and gossamer, to claim a reward from Minos for threading a Triton shell.  Some of these creatures helped Psyche accomplish the first task set by Venus, sorting a basket of grains in one day.  Zeus answered the prayer of Aeacus by transforming some of these creatures into men, whose descendants later followed Peleus and Achilles.  FTP, name these industrious insects which were turned into Myrmidons.;;ants
Mythology;;His soul was said to reside in the bull Aa-Nefer or the ram of Mendes, and his backbone was identified with the djed pillar.  He absorbed the attributes of Khentamentiu of Abydos, whose name, meaning "Foremost of the Westerners," became one of his epithets.  He was usually depicted wearing the atef crown and carrying a crook and a flail.  In some accounts, he turned up in the palace of Malcandre, king of Byblos, in a pillar made from a tamarisk tree which had grown around a chest with his body sealed inside.  FTP, name this god of vegetation who became the lord of the underworld after being murdered by his brother Set.;;Osiris|Ausares|Asar|Ser
Mythology;;This woman's advice led to a son of Clud being the centerpiece of the first game of Badger-in-the-Bag.  On one occasion this daughter of Hyfaidd Hen was made to wear the collars of asses for over a year.  She was rescued by Teyrnon from a sentence that she spend seven years beside a mounting block, telling her story to passers-by and offering to carry them to the court of her husband.  She received her sentence after six nurses smeared her face with puppy blood and claimed that she had killed her son Pryderi.  FTP, name this wife of Pwyll.;;Rhiannon
Mythology;;This god granted Spermo the power of turning anything she touched into corn, and gave similar powers to her two sisters.  He slept with Oeneus's wife Althaea, fathering Deianeira.  As an infant, he struck Athamas blind, so that Athamas began flogging a she-goat, mistaking it for this god's aunt Ino.  A group of pirates planned to sell him into slavery, but he frightened the pirates into leaping overboard, where they turned into dolphins.  He married a princess who had been abandoned by Theseus on Naxos.  FTP, name this god who was born from Zeus's thigh after the death of his mother Semele, the Greek god of wine.;;Dionysus
Mythology;;He modestly retreated before the Xanthian women when they presented themselves with hoisted skirts.  This occurred after he asked Poseidon to flood the plain behind him while he advanced against a king of Lycia.  His story is recounted in the Iliad by his grandson Glaucus when Glaucus encounters Diomedes, and his daughter Laodamia was the mother by Zeus of Sarpedon.  He defeated a daughter of Echidna and Typhon, but at the end of his life he was crippled after Zeus sent a gadfly to prevent his project of flying to Olympus.  FTP, name this hero who affixed to his spear a lump of lead in order to kill the Chimera.;;Bellerophon|Bellerophontes
Mythology;;He is often depicted wearing a tiger skin, while his companion wears a leopard skin and carries a large bag.  According to one myth, he and his companion were captured after a protracted battle against 33 gods.  He and his companion resemble oni, but he can be distinguished by his circular frame of large drums.  He can be avoided only by hiding under mosquito netting, an important piece of information given his love for eating human navels.  Typically shown with the wind god Fujin, FTP name this Japanese god of thunder and lightning.;;Raiden|Raijin
Mythology;;She reared Pandareus's orphaned daughters on curds, honey, and sweet wine, but they were snatched up by the Harpies while she was distracted.  This mother of Herophilus and Rhodus was caught once by Athena while surreptitiously working at a loom, after which she never did any work.  Sometimes said to be the daughter of Dione, she arranged the death of Glaucus, who refused to allow his mares to breed.  She was more commonly thought to have sprung from the sea-foam that gathered around the severed genitals of Uranus.  FTP, name this Greek goddess of desire and love.;;Aphrodite
Mythology;;He asked Kothar to build him a palace, but did not want it to have any windows.  He used his magical weapons "Driver" and "Chaser" to defeat a god sometimes known as "Prince Sea."  Before facing a foe who threatened to eat him "in red lumps of two spans," this god copulated with a heifer "seventy-seven times, eighty-eight times."  This chief god of Ugarit was resurrected seven years after his death at the hands of Mot, which was avenged by his consort Anat.  FTP, name this son of El or Dagan, a Canaanite weather and fertility god whose name means "lord.".;;Baal(-)Hadad
Mythology;;He returned to his own form after dying in a drunken brawl while incarnated as Pradyumna, son of Rukmini and Krishna.  His red banner bearing the emblem of the monster fish Makara, the mount of Varuna, is carried by one of the Apsaras, a band of nymphs who surround him when he travels.  He usually rides a parrot, and travels in the company of his wife, Rati, and his friend Vasanta, who strings his sugar-cane bow with humming-bees.  He was burned up by Shiva's third eye after causing Shiva to fall in love with Parvati using one of his five flower-tipped arrows of desire.  FTP, name this god of love and desire who lends his name to a famous Sutra.;;Kama
Mythology;;According to Theocritus, Aphrodite used a live wryneck spread-eagled to a firewheel to keep this woman's passions glowing, at the behest of Athena and Hera.  Some stories record that in her later years, she lost a beauty contest to Thetis, and cured Heracles of the madness that had caused him to kill his children.  She earned the enmity of the Thebans when she gave cursed wedding gifts to King Creon's daughter.  After killing her half-brother Apsyrtus to stall her father's pursuit, she went to Aeaea for purification by her aunt Circe.  FTP, name this daughter of Aeetes who married Aegeus after being abandoned by Jason.;;Medea
Mythology;;The Voluspo contains a catalogue of these "forebears of Lofar," some of whom "sought a home in the fields of sand," while others made their home in a golden hall in Nidavellir.  Four of them were placed at the cardinal points and charged with holding up the vault of the sky.  In the Poetic Eddas, they are said to have risen "out of Brimir's blood and the legs of Blain," while Snorri states that they grew from maggots crawling in Ymir's corpse.  Two of them, Fjalar and Galar, created the mead of poetry, and Freya slept with four of them to obtain Brisingamen.  Sometimes identified with the dark elves, FTP name this race of master smiths in Norse myth.;;dwarves|dvergar
Mythology;;A king of Elis tried to imitate this character by dragging hide-bound brazen cauldrons behind his chariot and hurling oaken torches in the air.  One of this character's sons offered him a sacrifice as "the Averter of Flies" at the founding of the Olympic Games.  He once had all his sinews ripped out, placed in a bag, and put under the guardianship of the monstrous Delphyne.  As an infant, he was placed in a cradle and the sounds of his wailing were drowned out by the spear-clashing Curetes, so that his father would not devour him.  FTP, name this father of Perseus and Heracles, the leader of the Greek gods.;;Zeus
Mythology;;One of this woman's brothers, who committed suicide after being driven mad by Artemis, or because everyone hated his ugliness, was named Broteas.  Her husband, like Orpheus, was said to be able to move stones with his music, a talent he used in building part of Thebes.  Another of her brothers first found out, while baring his breast in mourning for her, about his replacement shoulder.  She disparaged Leto for having a mannish daughter and a womanish son, dooming her own children.  FTP, name this wife of Amphion and daughter of Tantalus who lost 12 of her 14 children to the arrows of Apollo and Artemis.;;Niobe
Mythology;;He killed his first man when he fired an arrow through the head of Remulus.  In one account, he startles his father when he notes with a laugh that he and his companions are eating the thin wheat cakes they use in place of tables, fulfilling the terms of a prophetic curse pronounced by the Harpy Celaeno.  Virgil has Venus send Cupid in the guise of this character, the eventual founder of Alba Longa, to sit on Dido's lap.  He was separated from his mother during the sack of Troy, but hung onto his father's hand.  FTP, name this son of Creusa and Aeneas.;;Ascanius|Iulus
Mythology;;Her trickery resulted in Anty or Nemty the Ferryman losing his toes as punishment for bringing her to Central Island.  She turned herself into a headless flint statue after her son beheaded her for harpooning his rival in the form of a hippo, then letting that rival go when he appealed for mercy as her brother.  She hid her young son in the marshes of Chemmish in the Delta region to protect him from her brother, who had killed her husband.  She faithfully reassembled the scattered pieces of her husband's dismembered body.  FTP, name this wife of Osiris.;;Isis
Mythology;;This creature lived by a lake near Amymone where murderers came to be purified, close to the spot where Dionysus descended to fetch Semele from Tartarus.  The hot springs at Thermopylae were formed during an incident which saw this creature avenged on its killer with the help of an item delivered by Lichas.  That item, a gift from a centaur, was a shirt infused with blood from the centaur and this creature.  This creature received aid in its final battle from a giant crab, but its opponent was aided by his nephew, who used a torch to keep this creature from growing new heads.  FTP, name this many-headed monster slain by Heracles in Lerna.;;(Lernaean) Hydra
Mythology;;He married Gayatri when his first wife was too slow to arrive at a sacrifice he was performing.  With the help of his first wife, he tricked Kumbhakarna into requesting eternal sleep.  He gave birth from his thumb to the sage Daksha, who became chief of the Prajapatis.  In early myths he produces a female partner later identified with Sarasvati and, when she modestly tries to move away from his intense gaze, grows four extra heads to keep her in his sight.  FTP, name this creator-god who later lost one head to Shiva, his fellow, with Vishnu, in the Trimurti.;;Brahma
Mythology;;While disguised as a poet, this character conjures illusions of twelve horses, twelve dogs, and twelve golden shields, which he trades for the pigs of Pryderi.  He later kills Pryderi in single combat.  He sets up the conflict with Pryderi to help his brother accomplish a rape, but he and his brother are caught and punished by being forced to spend three years as beasts, mating with each other.  He tricks his sister into giving her son a name and arms later on in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi.  FTP name this son of Beli and Don, the brother of Gilfaethwy and protective uncle of Lleu Llaw Gyffes.;;Gwydion
Mythology;;He died of a broken heart after incorrectly guessing the number, gender and birthdate of the baby pigs in a pregnant sow.  This brother of Leucippe and Theonoe was taught his art by his father Thestor.  His advice led to the capture of Helenus and an expedition to Lemnos to fetch the bow and arrows of Heracles.  This renegade Trojan, a priest of Apollo, told Agamemnon to sacrifice his most beautiful daughter to Artemis.  FTP, name this prophet for the Greek army during the Trojan War.;;Calchas
Mythology;;In the Svipdagsmol, this deity is credited with creating "the wounding wand" Laevateinn.  In another story, he is credited with inventing the fishing net while living in a house with four doors so that he could look out for his pursuers, who caught him in the waterfall of Franang in the form of a salmon.  His son Vali was then turned into a wolf and set loose on his other son Narvi, and Narvi's entrails were used to bind him.  Vali and Narvi were his sons by his wife Sigyn, but he also had three children by Angrboda.  FTP, name this god who gave birth to Sleipnir, Jormungandr and Fenrir.;;Loki
Mythology;;In a Tsimshian myth, this character begins to eat after being affected by the power of two slaves called Mouth at Both Ends.  Later, he hides in the drinking bucket of the daughter of a chief in heaven and is reborn from her, achieving a version of the earth-diver myth.  In a Chukchee myth, this character's mighty droppings form the earth.  FTP, name this popular trickster figure of the Pacific Northwest credited with forming sheep out of mud and woman out of clay, then blowing life into them by flapping his wings.;;Raven
Mythology;;In Polynesian mythology, it was produced in the armpits of Uira.  In Roman mythology, it was personified by Fulgora.  In Aztec mythology, people killed by it, along with those who died of certain diseases or drowning, were brought to Tlalocan by the psychopomp Xolotl, who was also regarded as the god of this phenomenon.  In Greek mythology, it was the cause of death for Capaneus, as well as the meaning of the name of the Cyclops Steropes.  In Norse mythology, it was sometimes associated with Odin's spear Gungnir, but it was more often associated with another weapon.  FTP, name this violent natural phenomenon thought to follow the path of Mjolnir, Thor's hammer.;;lightning
Mythology;;This woman, whose name means "White Phantom," was sometimes said to have had a half-sister who was her double, known as "The False."  In one story, the ruler of the Summer Land abducts her, but later agrees to return her.  In later versions of the story, her abductor Melwas becomes the knight Meliagraunce.  Two of Gawain's brothers were killed during her rescue from being burned at the stake for adultery.  The Round Table was the dowry of, FTP, what woman, the wife of Arthur?.;;Guinevere
Mythology;;Some say that this man, rather than Thamyris or Minos, was the first pederast, as he fell in love with and abducted Pelops's bastard son Chrysippus.  This happened after he was banished from the city he had ruled by Zethus and Amphion.  He died while traveling to ask the Delphic Oracle how he might get rid of a monster which had consumed his wife's nephew Haimon.  His son was raised by Periboea and Polybus in Corinth after this man pierced the feet of his son with a nail and left his son to die.  FTP name this paternal grandfather of Ismene and Antigone, the first husband of Jocasta and father of Oedipus.;;Laius
Mythology;;In one story, he goes to the underworld to retrieve his friend's pukku and mukku, but breaks every taboo and is forced to stay there.  He meets a woman whose name means "the Voluptuous," and they make love for six days and seven nights, after which this being fashioned by the goddess Aruru is avoided by his former companions, the wild animals.  His violent acts include throwing the thigh of the Bull of Heaven at Ishtar and decapitating the demon Humbaba.  FTP, name this hairy wild man who becomes the companion of Gilgamesh.;;Enkidu
Mythology;;The Cabeiri, who save sailors from shipwreck, were her servants.  She became the lover of a young man who was given to her in a chest for safe-keeping after being born from a myrrh tree split in two by a sword. Peirithous tried to take her for his bride, but ended up stuck to a chair.  She was forced into marriage on the strength of evidence given by a gardener named Ascalaphus.  Dionysus bribed her with a gift of myrtle to release the spirit of Semele.  FTP, name this part-time lover of Adonis who was condemned to spend part of each year as Queen of the Underworld after eating seven pomegranate seeds.;;Persephone|Core|Persephatta
Mythology;;This man's father was the son of Tyro and Tyro's uncle Cretheus.  His uncle, a son of Poseidon, claimed to be haunted by the ghost of a son of Nephele who had fled Orchomenus on a magical steed.  This man fulfilled a prophecy warning his uncle against a one-sandalled man.  He lost a sandal when he courteously carried an old crone, actually Hera in disguise, across a river.  He killed his uncle after retrieving an item associated with Phrixus in a quest set by his uncle Pelias.  FTP, name this man who assembled and led the Argonauts.;;Jason
Mythology;;In one version of her genesis, her father produced her from a white-copper mirror held in his left hand.  One of her grandsons was sent to earth after she gave him a sword, a brass mirror known as the Eight-Handed Mirror, and a magatama necklace.  The necklace and mirror had been placed on the sacred Sakaki tree as part of a plan to restore light to the world by luring this goddess out of a cave.  She was lured out when she heard the gods laughing at the erotic dance of Uzume, the kami of joy.  The emperors of Japan claimed descent from, FTP, what Shinto sun goddess?.;;Amaterasu|Omikami
Mythology;;She drove an Edonian king mad for opposing one of her grandsons, whom she purified of murders, after that grandson conquered India.  She helped doom her husband by providing mustard and salt to add to his honeyed drink.  According to some accounts, she switched one of her sons at infancy with a foal; that son later claimed to have created the horse.  Another of her sons was raised by two daughters of Melisseus in a cave on Mount Dicte, and fed on the milk of the goat Amaltheia.  That son was switched at birth with a stone, saving him from being eaten by this Titaness's husband.  FTP, name this wife of Cronus.;;Rhea
Mythology;;When this goddess offers Loki a crystal cup of mead, he accuses her of infidelity in the Lokasenna, and similar allegations are made to her husband in the Harbarthsljoth.  One of her children, who lived in the hall Ydalir, invented snow-shoes and was renowned for his prowess at archery and skiing.  She was the recipient of a gift made by the sons of Ivaldi, who also made the boat Skidbladnir and the spear Gungnir.  She was the mother of Ull and Thrud, and the step-mother of Magni.  FTP, name this goddess whose hair was replaced by living gold, the wife of Thor.;;Sif
Mythology;;In the Annals of the Cakchiquels, it is kneaded with the blood of the tapir and the serpent to create humanity.  The Peruvian goddess Zaramama and the Aztec deities Chicomecoatl and Centeotl were associated with this plant, and the self-flaying of Xipe Totec was meant to evoke the development of its seed.  Quetzalcoatl assumed the form of a black ant to retrieve some grains of it for the rest of the gods.  In the Popol Vuh, the present human race is made from water mixed with ground kernels from white and yellow ears of, FTP, what plant?.;;corn|maize
Mythology;;This character was killed by a slung piece of cheese while obeying a geis to bathe every morning in a certain spring.  Fergus mac Roich was killed by Lugaid while swimming in Findloch with this ruler of Cruachain Connacht.  She bribed many warriors with the promise of marriage to her daughter Findabair, and occasionally sweetened the deal with the offer of her own friendly thighs.  She sent three witches and three wizards to kill Cuchulainn, but they failed.  FTP, name this queen and wife of Ailill who led the Cattle Raid of Cooley against the Ulstermen.;;Medb|Maeve
Mythology;;He loses many men to the people of King Lamus after three scouts follow a daughter of the chieftain Antiphates into an ambush.  Earlier, he had buried a sackful of gold as part of a successful plot to frame Nauplius's son, participated in the murder of Dolon, coached Sinon on lying, and purified Achilles of the murder of his enemy Thersites.  He recounts his adventures, including his encounter with the Laestrygonians, in the court of King Alcinous after being rescued by Nausicaa.  FTP, name this hero who travels for ten years in a Homeric epic before reaching Ithaca.;;Odysseus
Mythology;;In answer to a challenge, he built a ship of cedar plastered with gypsum, tricking his challenger into trying to make a boat of stone, which sank.  His eyes were once plucked out and buried, growing into lotuses, but his sight was restored when gazelle milk was rubbed into his eyesockets by Hathor.  A misunderstanding over his portrayal in his child aspect led the Greeks to consider him the god of silence, Harpokrates.  In some accounts, he was conceived when his mother hovered in the form of a kite over the corpse of his father.  FTP name this celestial falcon-god, the son of Isis and Osiris.;;Horus|Heru (of) (Hor)
Mythology;;Her brother Phoroneus was the first to discover the use of fire after Prometheus stole it.  According to some sources, she wound up in Egypt, where she founded the worship of Isis.  Her son, who was then identified with the Apis bull, was the father of Libya.  After marrying a man named Telegonus, this daughter of the River-god Inachus gave birth to Epaphus.  She visited the chained Prometheus, who foretold her travels, which led to the naming of the Bosporus.  The jealous Hera had her tethered and guarded by the hundred-eyed Argus.  FTP, name this lover of Zeus who was turned into a white cow.;;Io
Mythology;;In the Aeneid, the Etruscan Arruns is killed by this goddess's follower Opis in punishment for killing her favorite, a leader of the Volscians said to be capable of running over the fields of grain without bruising the crops.  The minor god Virbius, identified with the resurrected Greek Hippolytus, was associated with this goddess.  Her priest at Aricia, whose title was rex nemorensis, was a fugitive slave; as King of the Grove, he had to kill his predecessor in single combat initiated by plucking a bough.  FTP, name this Roman goddess who favored the chaste warrior maiden Camilla, identified with the Greek Artemis.;;Diana
Mythology;;One of these creatures named Aswathaman was killed by Bhima in the Mahabharata so that Yudisthira could mislead Drona without lying.  Maya dreamed of a small white one entering her womb prior to the birth of Siddhartha.  A large white one, said to be ever-victorious, was produced by the churning of the ocean, and could generally be found at the entrance to Svarga.  The god most often associated with this animal, a son of Parvati, had his original head burned or cut off by Shiva.  Indra's mount Airavata was, FTP, what sort of animal which also furnished the replacement head for Ganesh?.;;elephants
Mythology;;Erechthonius was born as a result of this character's failed attempt to outrage Athena.  In the Iliad, he helps Achilles against the River-god Scamander.  His apprentice Cedalion was kidnapped and used as a guide by the blind Orion, and he helped Oenopion hide from Orion by building an underground chamber for Oenopion.  He was also credited with creating Talos, and with making a magical net which he used to catch his wife in bed with her lover Ares.  FTP, name this lame husband of Aphrodite, the Greek god of smithying.;;Hephaestus
Mythology;;He once cured a fellow god of castration by spitting on the wound.  He was the father of Nefer Hor and Hornub by his wives Nehmauit and Seshat, respectively.  In one myth, he plays draughts with the Moon, winning a seventy-second part of the Moon's light, with which he makes 5 intercalated days, allowing Nut to give birth to her children.  In another story, he exorcises the poison of a scorpion sent by Set to sting the child Horus after helping Isis reassemble the body of Osiris.  Known to the Greeks as Hermes Trismegistus, FTP, name this inventor of the arts and sciences who was often depicted with the head of an ibis.;;Thoth|Djehuti|Zehuti
Mythology;;She was the mother of the Empusae, a group of demons who had the haunches of asses and wore brazen slippers.  She was also sometimes said to be the mother of Scylla.  In the Aeneid, this figure is said to have placed the Sibyl in charge of the groves of Avernus.  This goddess of roads in general and crossroads in particular once heard someone cry, "A rape! A rape!" but was too slow to see a chariot driving into the ground with Hades and Persephone.  Sometimes identified with Selene and Artemis, FTP name this goddess whose priestesses included Medea.;;Hecate
Mythology;;This creature is the source of the river Vam.  He is fated to be killed by an opponent wielding a weapon made from the strips of leather men pare off at the toes and heels of their boots.  This creature's death will come after he leaves his current abode in the lake Amsvartnir, on the isle of Lyngvi, where he sits gagged by a sword.  At Ragnarok, he will die when the second strongest of the Aesir grabs his gaping jaws and wrenches them apart.  Before that he will escape the bond Gleipnir.  FTP, name this creature which will be killed by Vidarr after killing Odin, a monstrous wolf.;;Fenrir|Fenris (wolf)
Mythology;;This deity's name is cognate with that of the Old Norse figure Tjarnaglofi.  During the creation of the world, he hid some dirt in his mouth, but was forced to spit it out when the land began growing. On another occasion, he cursed his brother's descendants to eat the excrement of the bee.  He fought his brother twice annually, winning once to gain control of the waning half of the year.  First appearing as the shadow of his brother, FTP name this Slavic god associated with Koshchei, known as the "black god" and paired with his brother Bielobog.;;Czernobog
Mythology;;His brothers included Cilix, who gave his name to Cilicia, and Phineus, who was tormented by Harpies.  He was sentenced to serve eight years as the bondsman of Ares for killing a sacred serpent.  The Delphic Oracle advised him to follow a cow and build a city wherever it sank down from weariness.  This father of Semele was helped in founding that city by 5 men who sprang up when he sowed the ground with the teeth of Ares's serpent.  FTP name this man who founded Thebes after abandoning the search for his sister Europa.;;Cadmus
Mythology;;According to one myth, he was killed by the vagina of the queen of the underworld while attempting to gain immortality by crawling into her body to crush her heart.  In another myth, after deciding that the days were too short, he used a lasso made of his sister's hair, or flax, to catch the sun, then proceeded to beat it or break one of its legs to force it to go slower.  Perhaps his greatest feat involved the use of an ancestor's jawbone and some blood from his own nose as bait, and the paddling expertise of his brothers.  FTP, name this Polynesian god credited with hooking and drawing up New Zealand's North Island and the Hawaiian Islands.;;Maui (Potiki)|(Tikitiki)
Mythology;;Frey's servant Skirnir offered Gerda eleven of these in an attempt to bribe her to marry Frey, but she refused. A young man who prayed for help in winning the hand of the daughter of Iasus or Schoeneus was given three of these by Aphrodite.  The wife of Bragi was known for her supply of these, while a certain companion of Ares was known for owning one inscribed "Kallisti."  Ladon was set as a guard over, and Melanion or Hippomenes beat Atalanta in a footrace with the help of, FTP, what sort of magical fruit kept by Idunn in Norse myth, and by the Hesperides in Greek myth?.;;golden apples
Mythology;;This man employed a servant named Mnemon whose sole task was to remind him not to kill any of Apollo's sons, due to a prophecy made by this man's mother.  His mother foiled a conspiracy by alerting Briareus, who undid the hundred knots binding Zeus.  Zeus and Poseidon both lusted for his mother, but refrained from bedding her due to a prophecy that she would bear a son greater than the father.  His mother held him in a fire to burn his mortality or dipped him in the Styx, making him invulnerable except at the heel.  FTP, name this son of Thetis, the greatest of the Greek warriors at Troy.;;Achilles
Mythology;;In Irish myth, the sorceress Tlachtga created one of these for Trian, and the Gaulish god Taranis was often portrayed with one.  The eight-armed Japanese goddess Benten or Benzaiten was typically depicted holding a bow, an arrow, a jewel, a sword, a key, and one of these items.  Tyche and Nemesis shared the rudder of destiny and one of these items as attributes.  The Egyptian god Khnum shaped humans on one designed for pottery.  Ixion was forced to roll through the sky after being bound to, FTP, what sort of item, one of which once presented an obstacle to Garuda with its sharp spokes?.;;wheel
Mythology;;He once appeared to a group of cowherds as the spirit of the mountain Govardhana, then lifted the mountain with one finger to protect the cowherds from a week-long storm sent by Indra.  His second wife was the daughter of the bear king Jambuvan, whom he killed.  He used his magic quoit weapon, Sudarsana, to kill his cousin Sisupala, the original betrothed of his first wife, Rukmini.   His purpose was to defeat the demon Kansa, and he was born to Devaki after a certain god placed a black hair in her womb.  FTP, name this brother of Balarama famous for frolicking with the gopis, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu.;;Krishna
Mythology;;According to Pausanias and Plutarch, this character, or another with the same name, had an oracle at Laconian Thalamae.  One of her sons had to be revived after drowning in a jar of honey, and another son, Androgeus, was killed as a result of an Athenian plot.  One of her daughters was abandoned by a man who later married her other daughter Phaedra.  She freed Icarus and Daedalus in gratitude for Daedalus's help in facilitating her dalliance with a sacrificial victim intended for Poseidon who had became the object of this woman's unnatural lust.  FTP, name this mother of Ariadne and wife of Minos whose union with a bull produced the Minotaur.;;Pasiphae
Mythology;;As a young lad, this character finds employment in the home of the nobleman Tegid Foel, whose son went unharmed at the battle of Camlann due to his great ugliness.  Later, he foils a plot by the lecherous prince Rhun to despoil the daughter-in-law of Gwyddno Garanhir after being retrieved from a weir by Gwyddno's son Elphin.  At a crucial moment, he pushes Tegid Foel's son Morfran or Afagddu aside and imbibes three drops of a potion of wisdom.  FTP, name this Welsh magician and bard who was reborn after being swallowed in the form of a grain of wheat by the witch Ceridwen.;;Taliesin|Gwion (Bach)
Mythology;;In Ovid's Fasti, her sister is identified with the goddess of the New Year.  She won a large plot of land known as Byrsa from the King of Gaetulia, Iarbas, by cutting up an oxhide and laying the strips around the boundary.  Her first husband Sychaeus was murdered by her brother Pygmalion, prompting her and her sister Anna to flee Tyre.  She deals kindly with some Trojan survivors of a storm before meeting and falling love with their leader.  FTP, name this queen and founder of Carthage who committed suicide after being abandoned by Aeneas.;;Dido|Elissa
Mythology;;In one section of the Poetic Edda, this god journeys to his father's home "east of Elivagar," where he meets his loathsome nine-hundred headed grandmother.  His goal on that journey is to take a kettle "a mile in depth" that belongs to his father, the giant Hymir.  Later considered a son of Odin, he will slay and be slain at Ragnarok by a monster that had previously been bound at Gnipahellir, the Hel-hound Garm.  However, his worst run-in with a canine resulted in the wrist being known as the wolf-joint.  FTP, name this courageous god who lost his right hand to wolf Fenrir.;;Tyr|Tiwaz|Ziu
Mythology;;He was banished to Cephallenia when an oracle announced that his father would be killed by him or one of his brothers.  His father once feigned madness, plowing with an ass and an ox yoked together and flinging salt over his shoulder, but Palamedes uncovered the charade by placing this character in front of his father's team.  Following his father's death at the hands of his half-brother Telegonus, this man married Telegonus's mother Circe, who had tried and failed years earlier to turn his father into a pig.  FTP, name this man who grew up on Ithaca during his father's 20 year absence, a son of Odysseus.;;Telemachus
Mythology;;The temple of this goddess in her cult center at Dendera had columns in the shape of sistra.  She was often portrayed with the Menait, an emblem of joy and pleasure, on her back.  When Ra went off to sulk after the deity Baba insulted him, this goddess managed to cheer Ra up by going to his house and showing him her private parts.  She was worshipped at Dendera as the wife of Horus of Edfu, and their son Ihy was sometimes known as the "bull of confusion."   Her name means "House of Horus," and she was thought to nourish the living with her milk.  FTP, name this goddess of love, often portrayed with a cow's head.;;Hathor|Athyr|Athor
Mythology;;He killed his cousin Halirrhothius, supposedly to defend his daughter Alcippe.  Like Apollo and Poseidon, he had a son named Cycnus.  This father-in-law of Procne was one of the two Olympians not invited to the wedding of Deidameia or Hippodameia and Peirithous.  His sacred creatures included a group of monsters known for killing men and beasts with showers of brazen feathers.  The Golden Fleece was kept on Colchis in a grove dedicated to this god, who once assumed the form of a wild boar and gored Adonis to death.  FTP, name this father of Penthesilea, Phobus and Deimos, the Greek god of war.;;Ares
Mythology;;One divine patron of this profession was grouped with Luchta and Credne in na Tri Dee Danann, and possessed the ale of immortality.  Finn macCool and the Fiana encountered a gigantic one-footed warrior with three arms who practiced this trade.  In Welsh myth, Arianrhod's son Dylan was killed by the divine patron of this craft, the god Govannon, who corresponds to the Irish Goibhniu.  FTP, give the profession of Culainn, whose hound was killed by Cuchulainn, and the god Goibhniu, who worked during the Second Battle of Mag Tuired mending shattered spears and swords.;;blacksmiths
Mythology;;In the Hymn of Agushaya, the antics of this goddess annoy a god who proceeds to use the dust under his fingernails to create an exaggerated mirror image of her, named Saltu.  She broke the wing of the bird-man Allulu, and turned her father's gardener Ishullanu into a frog.  The recital of the stories of these and other unfortunate lovers by a two-thirds immortal hero who rejected her advances caused her to go to her father Anu and demand punishment for that hero, Gilgamesh.  FTP, name this Babylonian goddess of love and war whose other lovers included Tammuz.;;Ishtar
Mythology;;In later times, he was considered the son of Angiras, and thus inherited the title of king of the Pitris, formerly a role of Varuna.  In the Vedas, he forms an early triad with his brothers Indra and Surya.  Bhrigu once cursed him for being a tattle-tale, but later granted a dispensation whereby he remained pure regardless of what he ate.  In the Ramayana, he appears and proclaims the innocence of Sita when she casts herself on a pyre.  He had a notorious appetite for sacrificial offerings, especially clarified butter, which he licked up with his seven tongues.  FTP, name this god of fire.;;Agni
Mythology;;His wife Cleola died after giving birth to the weak Pleisthenes.  He gained his throne when the sun went backward on a dial by Zeus's decree.  This king of Mycenae promised to sacrifice the finest of his flock to Artemis, but could not bring himself to part with the fleece of a golden lamb sent by Pan at the instigation of Hermes.  His brother stole the fleece while engaging in adultery with his wife Aerope.  In retaliation, he murdered three of his nephews and served chunks of their flesh to his brother.  FTP, name this father of Menelaus and Agamemnon, the brother of Thyestes.;;Atreus
Mythology;;These people believed in feminine nature spirits known as etugen.  They also believed that humans were the descendants of a fallow deer who mated with a blue-gray wolf.  Their greatest leader, possibly in an attempt to identify himself with the hero Bukhe Beligte, claimed to be the son of the sky spirit Hormast Tengri.  According to legend, they were repelled by a shower of lightning arrows shot by Raiden, or by the storm god Kami-kaze when they sent an invading fleet to Japan.  FTP, name these people whose epic of Geser follows the exploits of the titular khan.;;Mongols
Mythology;;This character gave Pandareus the gift of never suffering from the belly-ache, and cursed Erysichthon to perpetual hunger.  During the wedding of Cadmus and Harmonia, she became pregnant with Plutus by having sex with Iasius in a thrice-plowed field.  During her stay with Celeus and Metaneira, she tried but failed to burn away Demophoon's mortality.  Before leaving Eleusis, she gave a chariot drawn by serpents, seed-corn, and a wooden plow to Triptolemus and told him to teach mankind the art of agriculture.  FTP, name this sister of Hera and mother of Persephone.;;Demeter
Mythology;;This god's lieutenant, known as He Who Hastens, was Paynal.  He was conceived while his mother was sweeping a temple as penance, and her husbandless pregnancy offended this god's sister.  His sister plotted with the Four Hundred Southerners to kill his mother, but the traitor Cuahuitlicac informed this god.  At the moment of the attack, he sprang fully armed from his mother Coatlicue, who had been impregnated by a ball of feathers.  He told his people to build a city where they saw an eagle killing a snake on a cactus.  Known as Hummingbird on the Left, FTP name this war and sun god, the patron of the Aztecs.;;Huitzilopochtli
Mythology;;This man served as champion in opposing King Anguish's demand of a tribute of slaves, killing Anguish's step-brother Morholt.  Like the Greek Aegeus, he died of despair after arranging for a signal of white or black sails; unlike Aegeus, he asked for white sails if his ships were returning with his true love, who had the power to cure him.  In one story, he fights Lancelot for four hours after mistaking Lancelot for his enemy Palamedes.  FTP, name this prince of Lyonesse who, according to some accounts, was treacherously killed by his jealous uncle, King Mark.;;Tristan|(Sir) Tristram (of) (Lyonesse)
Mythology;;The god Serapis was often pictured with this creature at his feet.  According to some accounts, the plant aconite was created from the slaver of this creature dripping on a field.  The mother of Voluptas was advised by a tower on dealing with this creature, and in the Aeneid, when the Sibyl sees the snakes sprouting from this creature's neck she tosses it a drugged sop.  Eurystheus quailed in fear before this son of Typhon and Echidna, who was captured by Heracles without the help of weapons, as stipulated by Hades.  FTP, name this guardian of the far bank of the river Styx, a three-headed hound.;;Cerberus
Mythology;;In one story, this figure or one of his priests interpret a king's dream of seven fat and seven thin cattle, and discovers the origins of the Nile.  In later times, his mother was thought to be the beautiful singer, Kheredankhw, and he was said to have defeated the Asiatics with the help of his divine stepmother, Sekhmet.  He was credited with writing the Book of Temple Foundations, and was typically portrayed as a seated priest with a shaved head, reading a scroll.  Identified with the Greek Asclepius and considered a son of Ptah, FTP, name this deified sage and architect who built Djoser's step pyramid.;;Imhotep|Imouthes
Mythology;;According to some accounts, this man founded his city, initially known as Ephyra, and peopled it with men sprung from mushrooms; other sources state that he came to power following the death of Glauce when Medea bequeathed the throne to him.  This grandfather of Bellerophon told the River-god Asopus where to find Zeus dallying with Aegina, then twice managed to evade punishment: once by telling his wife Merope to leave him unburied, and once by tricking Hades into handcuffing himself.  FTP, name this clever King of Corinth who was punished in the afterlife by being made to roll a huge boulder up a hill.;;Sisyphus
Mythology;;This deity appears in the Tain riding in a chariot harnessed to a one-legged chestnut horse, accompanied by a giant driving a heifer.  This daughter of Ernmas vowed to destroy Indech, taking the kidneys of his valor and the blood of his heart.  She made that promise while foretelling the events of the second battle of Mag Tuired after mating over a river at Samain with the Dagda.  One of her two sisters cursed the Ulstermen with the pangs of Ulster.  FTP, name this war-goddess identified with Badb and Macha who took the form of a hooded crow and perched on the shoulder of Cuchulainn after his death.;;(the) Morrigan
Mythology;;In one tale, he fashions a robe using one feather from each bird, then hides in the robe to spy on Wulbari.  He introduces blindness when he fulfills Wulbari's enigmatic request for something by bringing back the moon, the sun, and darkness.  He captures a fairy with the help of some mashed yams and an Akua doll covered in sticky resin, but later falls victim to a similar trap.  He loses his wealth when he buys a worthless cloak of vines and flies from Chameleon.  His other major defeat comes when his eight legs become stuck to the wax girl.  FTP, name this son of the sky-god Nyame, a popular African trickster figure.;;(Kwaku) Anansi
Mythology;;He spent part of his childhood in the court of Strophius, where he became close friends with Strophius's son.  This brother of Chrysothemis, or else a Phocian named Machaereus, was credited with killing Neoptolemus.  This companion of Pylades eventually married his own cousin Hermione.  He was the subject of two dreams in which his mother dreamed that she gave birth to and suckled a serpent which drew blood from her breast.  These dreams were born out when he avenged the murder of his father with the help of his sister Electra.  FTP, name this son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.;;Orestes
Mythology;;The horse Hoof-flourisher carries this goddess's errand girl Gna.  Another of her attendants, who carries her little box and looks after her shoes, is the virgin Fulla.  In the Lokasenna, Loki accuses her of lying with both of her husband's brothers, implying that she slept with all three of the children of Bestla and Bor.  After one of her sons has a bad dream, she overlooks a little bush while asking ailments, birds, trees, and pretty much everything else not to harm him.  FTP, name this goddess who enjoyed sitting in the hall Fensalir and spinning clouds on her loom, the protective mother of Baldur and wife of Odin.;;Frigg
Mythology;;This man's beard was promised pride of place on a giant's cloak woven of beards of defeated chieftains; sadly, his beard had to forgo this signal honor when he defeated the giant Ritho.  His pride led to one of the three unfortunate disinterments, when he dug up the head of Bran.  He appears in "The Dream of Rhonabwy," playing a boardgame with Owain, and in "The Tale of Culhwch and Olwen," helping his cousin Culhwch.  His prized possessions included the spear Ron and a scabbard which protected its wearer from harm.  FTP, name this king who fought at Mount Badon and Camlann, the leader of the Knights of the Round Table.;;(King) Arthur
Mythology;;His herdsman Menoetes, or Menoetius, the son of Ceuthonymus, lost a wrestling match to Heracles.  He was interrupted before he could seduce the nymph Minthe, whom he dazzled with his chariot and horses.  According to some accounts, his brother fathered Zagreus on this character's eventual wife.  During the Titanomachy, he snuck by Cronus to steal Cronus's weapons.  His palace lies on the far side of the Asphodel Fields, where only Orion still has the heart to hunt the ghostly deer.  FTP, name this god who owns all the gems and precious metals hidden underground, the Greek god of the dead.;;Hades
Mythology;;He died suddenly when he paused to drink at the spring of Tilphussa, after which his companions founded the city of Hestiaea.  His death was sealed when news of the death of Aegialeus broke the heart of Adrastus.  His advice led to the suicides of two men named Menoeceus.  He spent seven years as a celebrated harlot after killing a female snake, and and claimed that women enjoy sex more than men, angering Hera, who blinded him.  FTP, name this grandfather of Mopsus and father of Manto, a Theban prophet who revealed the crimes of Oedipus.;;Teiresias
Mythology;;The Etruscan demon Charun was depicted with the nose of this creature, which was paired with the cobra as a symbol of the Two Ladies in Egyptian mythology.  In Hindu mythology, the king of these creatures was Jatayu.  In Plutarch's Roman Questions, Hercules claims that they are the most righteous of birds.  In Tartarus, two of these creatures were charged with torturing Leto's would-be rapist Tityus, and two of these creatures revealed the secret to curing Iphiclus's impotence after Melampus sacrificed two bulls to Apollo and left the carcasses on the altar.  FTP, name these creatures, one of which was charged with gnawing the liver of Prometheus.;;vultures
Mythology;;He founded Petelia and Crimissa in southern Italy, where he fled after being expelled by rebels from his city of Meliboea in Thessaly.  This son of Demonassa and Poeas received his most prized possessions in gratitude for lighting a pyre for an uncle of Iolaus, an act which earned him the ire of Hera, who arranged a near-mortal wound for him.  That wound was healed by Podaleirius or Machaon after Odysseus and Diomedes brought this man from Lemnos.  He then dealt a mortal wound to Paris in an archery duel.  FTP, name this man who inherited the bow and arrows of Heracles before being bitten in the ankle by a snake.;;Philoctetes
Mythology;;Following a battle between Heracles and the centaurs, these creatures were credited with wiping out those centaurs that fled to Sicily.  Aphrodite whisked away the Argonaut Butes when he tried to journey to their island, which was home to many heaps of mouldering bones.  Hera sponsored a contest which resulted in these creatures losing their wings after they lost to the Muses.  They committed suicide after an encounter with the son of Laertes, who had himself tied up after stuffing wax into his crew's ears.  FTP, name these creatures who lured sailors to their deaths with an irresistible song.;;Sirens
Mythology;;This man's mother owned a ring that grew cold on her finger just before daybreak.  After hearing his future predicted by his uncle Gripir, he set out to kill the surviving sons of Hunding, including King Lyngvi.  This half-brother of Sinfjotli broke two swords made by his mentor, but his third sword successfully cut a ball of twine carried by a river current and sliced through an anvil.  That sword was made from two shards given to this hero by his mother Hjordis, and was forged by Regin.  FTP, name this son of Sigmund who rode through the wavering flames to claim Brynhild.;;Sigurd
Mythology;;Her servants include a white horseman, a red horseman, and a black horseman, symbolizing dawn, day, and night.  As she travels, she uses a broom of silver birch to sweep away her tracks, but her arrival is often heralded by the noisy host of spirits following her.  Her dwelling is surrounded by a picket fence topped by skulls, and is usually found spinning rapidly or sitting facing into the forest.  She uses a pestle to steer as she flies through the forest in a giant mortar.  FTP, name this character from Russian legend, a witch who dwells in a hut on chicken legs.;;Baba Yaga (Kostianaya) (Noga)|Baba Yaga (Bone) (Legs)|Jezi(-)Baba
Mythology;;The Navajos associated it with the mischievous Tonenili, while the Incas believed that the god Ilyap'a collected it from the Milky Way.  The Mayan god associated with this phenomenon was also associated with the frog, while the Zapotecs associated it with their god Cocijo.  The Incas believed that by tying up black dogs and letting them starve, they could convince Ilyap'a to send some from his jug.  The Inca god Kon was thought to take it with him when he retreated to the north, causing the land to wither.  FTP, name this important weather phenomenon associated with the Mayan Chac and the Aztec Tlaloc.;;rain
Mythology;;One character of this name ruled the warlike Bistones from the now-vanished city of Tirida.  Another character of this name was a cousin of Thersites who, according to some accounts, founded Brundisium before a divine act caused him to disappear and turned his comrades into gentle and virtuous birds.  This was also the birthname of Jason.  The Thracian king of this name kept his best-known possessions tethered with iron chains to bronze mangers, showing them on occasion to unsuspecting guests.  One hero of this name was a member of the Epigoni, and participated in a night raid into the camp of King Rhesus.  FTP, give the shared name of the king whose flesh-eating mares were captured by Heracles, and the son of Tydeus who wounded Aphrodite and Ares during the siege of Troy.;;Diomedes
Mythology;;A younger god once tied this deity's hair to the beams of his roof while he was asleep, then robbed him and kidnapped his daughter.  He received his sister's necklace in exchange for the ten-fists-length sword in a ritual to prove his honesty.  After his nails were pulled out and his beard cut off by the gods, he planted the hairs of his beard on the mountains, forming the Forest of Kii.  Known affectionately as the Impetuous Male, he defeated an eight-headed snake, taking from its tail the "grass-cutting sword" Kusanagi.  FTP, name this noisy storm god who often bothered his sister Amaterasu.;;Susanowo|Susanowa|Susanoo
Mythology;;One of these items was the primary attribute of the Continental Celtic god Sucellus.  The Etruscan demon Charun was often depicted with one of these, which he used to finish off victims, and the Finnish god Pajainen was depicted with an axe and one of these items. Loki's lips were once sewn shut in revenge for assuming the form of a gadfly and stinging a dwarf while one of these was being forged, resulting in a short handle on the weapon.  The blind Orion followed the sounds of, FTP, what tools used in the workshop of Hephaestus?.;;hammer|mallet
Mythology;;In one epic, she sends advice to Enmerkar by way of Enmerkar's messenger, Lugalbanda.  In one hymn, her consort is likened to "A willow that rejoiced not by the watercourse, / A willow whose roots were torn up."  Her consort was the son of Duttur, a personification of the ewe, and was chosen by this goddess over the farmer Enkimdu.  Some sources state that her mother was Ningal, and her father was the Sumerian moon-god.  Her consort, a god of vegetation, was sometimes given the epithet "the Shepherd," and was forced to spend half of each year in the underworld.  FTP, name this Sumerian fertility goddess, the wife of Dumuzi, whose Akkadian counterpart was Ishtar.;;Inanna
Mythology;;This woman was originally promised in marriage to King Belus's twin brother Agenor.  She met her husband in an episode later parallelled in the life of Hesione, who was saved by this woman's great-grandson Heracles.  That episode began when her mother disparaged the beauty of the Nereids, and ended with this woman marrying the hero who stole the eye and tooth of the Graeae.  FTP name this daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia who was chained naked to a rock before being rescued by Perseus.;;Andromeda
Mythology;;He set fire to his enemy's ships, but a blessing from Cybele made them rip free of their anchors, dive into the water, and turn into beautiful nymphs.  He made his way into an enemy encampment when Pandarus kept the gate open too long, slaughtering many before being forced to jump in the Tiber.  He is lured onto a ship by Juno and led away from a battle which sees the death of his ally Mezentius.  His fate is sealed when his opponent sees the belt of Evander's son Pallas on this man's shoulder.  FTP name this Rutulian prince whose death is described in the closing lines of the Aeneid.;;Turnus
Mythology;;In some stories, this character was said to carry clouds filled with rainbows and seeds.  In other accounts, he carried a bag of babies which he left with young women, and a bag of leather with which to make moccasins for the women he wanted to seduce.  The Hopi and Zuni believed he had the power to bring rain, while the Winnebago believed that he could detach his penis and send it downriver to impregnate bathing maidens.  FTP, name this trickster depicted with a humped back and a flute.;;Kokopelli
Mythology;;The cry of this creature and the howl of a jackal signaled the doom of the Kauravas to Dhritarashtra.  One of these creatures which could cover ten thousand li in one day, and be folded up and put away when not in use, was the favorite mount of Zhang Guo Lao, who rode it backwards.  According to Hyginus, one of these creatures was killed after losing a contest on "a matter of physique" to Priapus.  One of these creatures was also responsible for preventing Priapus from raping Lotis, or Vesta, who made it her sacred animal.  This animal also served as the mount of Dionysus's drunken, elderly attendant Silenus.  Apollo punished King Midas by giving him the ears of, FTP, what animal?.;;ass|donkey
Mythology;;On one occasion, she cast a decisive vote which resulted in the suicide of Erigone, the daughter of Aegisthus.  In some accounts, she saved Zagreus's heart and placed it in a gypsum figure.  She let one of her favorites die after she caught him eating the brains of Melanippus, and according to some accounts, she struck Teiresias blind for catching a glimpse of her bathing.  She accompanied the son of another of her favorites while disguised as Mentor.  Born with the help of a wedge wielded by Hephaestus, FTP name this grey-eyed daughter of Metis who sprang fully-armed from the head of Zeus.;;Athena|Athene
Mythology;;She was considered the female counterpart of the ithyphallic god Min.  This goddess, whose name means "Lady of the Mansion," is described as "an imitation woman with no vagina" in one of the Pyramid texts.  The linen bandages that wrapped mummies were sometimes known as her tresses, and she was sometimes depicted as one of a pair of birds hovering protectively on the walls of coffins, with the other bird representing her older sister.  This younger daughter of Geb and Nut abandoned her husband after he committed fratricide, and helped her sister retrieve the pieces of her brother's body.  FTP, name the sister of Isis and wife of Set.;;Nephthys|Nebthet
Mythology;;As a result of a wager, he defeated Gullfaxi in a contest which, in turn, set up the fight between Thor and Hrungnir.  One of his descendants proved his worth by swimming across the river Busiltjarn; that descendant was named Grani.  He was sent to help Hermod on his quest, leaping over the gate of Hel's hall.  His father, the helper of the giant who rebuilt the walls of Asgard, was Svadilfari, and his mother was Loki, who had temporarily assumed the form of a mare.  FTP, name this eight-legged horse, the steed of Odin.;;Sleipnir
Mythology;;His daughter Euippe predicted the death and deification of Asclepius, and was seduced by Aeolus.  Some accounts state that he was conceived on the Oceanid Philyra by Cronus, who was caught in the act by Rhea, changed form, and fled.  According to some accounts, he chose to die after being hit in the knee by an arrow that passed through the arm of Elatus, giving his immortality to Prometheus.  He saved Peleus's life, helped him find his sword, advised him on how to win Thetis, and later tutored their son.  Also credited with tutoring Heracles and Jason, FTP name this wise centaur.;;Cheiron
Mythology;;He assumed the guise of the beautiful girl Mohini following the churning of the oceans and tricked the demons out of their share of amrita.  His devotees included Prahlada, and he eventually killed Prahlada's father Hiranyakasipu, stepping out of a pillar in the form of a half-man, half-lion.  In the Vedas, he measures out the earth and heavens in three steps, a theme repeated in his incarnation as the dwarf Vamana.  FTP, name this god whose ten avatars include Khalki and Buddha, known as the preserver.;;Vishnu
Mythology;;According to some accounts, Odysseus strangled Antielus while trying to keep Antielus quiet after this woman imitated the voice of Antielus's wife while strolling with her fourth husband.  That fourth husband, Deiphobus, was the brother of her third husband.  Her third husband convinced her to abandon her second husband and her young daughter Hermione.  Her third husband, formerly the lover of Oenone, was promised her love in exchange for awarding the apple of discord to Aphrodite.  FTP, name this sister of Polydeuces and Castor whose elopement started the Trojan War.;;Helen
Mythology;;This god asked for a magical pig-skin that could heal all wounds as part of a fine levied against the sons of Turenn.  This foster son of Manannan mac Lir claimed competence in ten arts, including cupbearing, to gain entrance to Tara, then proceeded to win a game of fidchell and defeat Oghma in a flagstone-hurling contest.  This son of Cian and Ethniu fulfilled a prophecy during the second battle of Mag Tuired when he killed his maternal grandfather, Balor of the Evil Eye.  FTP name this god who succeeded Nuada to leadership of the Tuatha de Danann, considered the divine father of Cuchulainn.;;Lugh (of) (the) (Long) (Hand)|(Lamfhada)|(Samildanac)|(mac) (Ethnenn)
Mythology;;This character's bed hangings were known as Glimmering Misfortune.  She kept the company of her most illustrious guest with the help of her father, who disguised himself as the witch Thokk.  The maiden Modgud guarded the bridge over the river Gjoll which allowed entrance to this character's realm, which was sometimes called Nastrond.  The entrance to her realm was also guarded by the perpetually bloody-chested, four-eyed hound Garm.  Described as half black, half flesh-color, and all grim, FTP name this youngest child of Loki and Angrboda who ruled over the dead.;;Hel
Mythology;;One character of this name, who was killed by his cousin Agamemnon, was the first husband of Clytemnestra.  That character was named for his paternal grandfather, who conspired with Pandareus to steal a golden mastiff belonging to Zeus.  In addition to that crime, some sources state that this mortal stole ambrosia to give to his friends.  His worst crime occurred during a banquet he hosted, during which only Demeter ate the food he offered.  FTP name this man who killed and cooked his son Pelops for the gods, punished in Hades by being tempted with water he can never reach.;;Tantalus
Mythology;;In the Book of Gates, the god Nun lifts it from the depths.  It was protected by the coils of the mehen-snake from threats such as the monsters Sebau and Nak.  At night, when it was known as Mesektet, the god Sia acted as its spokesman, giving the orders to open each of twelve gates as it was towed by jackals and cobras through the underworld.  The fishes Ant and Abtu helped pilot, while Thoth was sometimes considered its navigator, and Hathor was often depicted standing in its prow.  FTP, name this vessel in which Ra made his daily journey.;;solar barque|solar boat|sun barque|sun boat|(the) Boat of Millions|(the) Barque of Millions
Mythology;;His bastard son Elymus helped Aegestes found four cities.  He traveled with Antenor to negotiate for the release of Hesione by Telamon, but the mission failed, angering his cousin Priam.  Zeus threw a thunderbolt at him for a foolish boast, but his lover interposed her girdle so that the bolt hit the ground under his feet and made him lame.  Because of his lameness, during the sack of Troy he had to be carried on his son's back.  FTP, name this prince of the house of Troy who slept with Aphrodite and became the father of Aeneas.;;Anchises
Mythology;;In some accounts, they are said to have sprung from Brahma's foot, while other accounts state that they are descendants of the sage Pulastya, or of the sage Kasyapa by his wife Khasa.  They include the grahas, who often accompany Karttikeya, the Bhutas, who attend Shiva when he haunts cemeteries, and the panis, whose devious ways make them the special foes of Indra.  Their best-known leader stole the chariot Pushpaka and the palace of Lanka from his half-brother Kubera.  FTP, name these shape-shifting demons led at various times by Sisupala, Hiranyakasipu, and Ravana.;;rakshasas
Mythology;;In one story, this character figures out how to make a net by looking at the ashes of a net made by Loki.  His birth came about as a consequence of the burning of Gullveig.  In another story, some of his blood is placed in the kettle Odrorir after he is murdered by the dwarves Fjalar and Galar, who mix the blood with honey.  The precious liquid formed from this man's blood was taken from Fjalar and Galar by Suttung, but then Odin robbed Suttung of the mead of poetry.  FTP, name this exceptionally wise man created from the spittle of the Vanir and Aesir.;;Kvasir
Mythology;;His brother Menoetius was killed under his command during a war that lasted ten years before he and his side were put to flight by a shout from Pan.  He was the father-in-law of Sisyphus, who married this character's daughter Merope.  According to some accounts, he was inhospitable to Perseus, resulting in his petrification.  Another hero asked him for help, then asked for time to adjust a lionskin cloak, tricking this character into resuming his task.  He was the father of seven daughters by Pleione, as well as the Hyades and Hesperides.  FTP, name this Titan who was sentenced to carry the world on his shoulders.;;Atlas
Mythology;;While being pursued by hags, he tossed his headdress behind him; it turned into grapes, which the hags stopped to devour.  At the Even Pass, he forced his pursuers to retreat by pelting them with three peaches.  He went to the Land of Darkness to bring back his wife, but found her covered with maggots, rotting and putrescent.  This god created two gods and a goddess while cleaning his face after trying to retrieve his wife, who died after giving birth to the fire god Kagutsuchi.  FTP, name this father of Susanowo and Amaterasu, the husband of Izanami.;;Izanagi
Mythology;;Members took vows never to retreat in battle, and never to require a dowry or be rude to women.  In one test, applicants were buried up to the waist, given a stick and shield, and expected to ward off javelins thrown by nine warriors.  Several of them were beheaded mistakenly after being kicked out of a magic quicken-tree by a foster-son of the god Aengus.  Known for various missions undertaken on behalf of the high king Cormac mac Airt, FTP, name this group of foot warriors whose members included Diarmuid and Oscar, the grandson of their last leader, Finn MacCool.;;Fenians|Fianna (Eireann)
Mythology;;When Heracles visited Hades to capture Cerberus, the only ghosts who did not flee were those of Meleager and this creature.  By some accounts, the three-headed shepherd Cacus was her son by Hephaestus, and the three-bodied giant Geryon was the son of another of her sons, whose name meant "golden falchion."  This mortal daughter of Ceto and Phorcys was killed by a hero who was equipped by the Stygian Nymphs with a magic wallet.  That hero evaded her immortal sisters with the help of winged sandals and Hades's helmet of invisibility.  FTP, name this sister of Stheno and Euryale who was decapitated by Perseus, a Gorgon who petrified anything that saw her.;;Medusa
Mythology;;The tigillum sororium was flanked by altars to Juno Sororia and this god with the epithet Curiatius.  He supposedly prevented the Sabines from capturing the Forum by causing jets of boiling water to spring up at the entrance.  He was identified with Portunus, the youthful god of ferries and harbors, recalling this god's earlier provenance over bridges and crossing places.  He was named first in formal prayers to the gods, as the god of beginnings.  FTP, name this Roman god of entrances and exits, depicted on coins looking before and behind with his two faces.;;Janus
Mythology;;This character was usually found in the company of the daughter of Pebin, relaxing in his court of Caer Dathyl.  His niece gave birth to a son and a blob when she stepped over his magic rod.  This occurred after the rape of Goewin, while this god was looking for a replacement virgin footholder.  This god of sorcery took pity on his niece Arianrhod's son Lleu Llaw Gyffes, helping to create the flower-woman Blodeuedd.  FTP, name this brother of Don and uncle of Gwydion, the son of Mathonwy.;;Math (ap) (Mathonwy)
Mythology;;While refitting his shattered fleet at Molossia, he heard of his grandfather's banishment from Phthia, set sail for Iolcus, and captured the city after killing the sons of Acastus.  He killed the prince Polites, then killed the father of Polites and dragged the corpse to his own father's tomb, leaving it there to rot, unburied and headless.  The god Heracles appeared on Lemnos to state that Philoctetes and this son of Deidameia were both necessary for Greek victory in the Trojan War.  After the victory, he was given Andromache as a slave.  Infamous for beheading Priam, FTP name this son of Achilles.;;Neoptolemus|Pyrrhus
Mythology;;This god went to have his regalia restored after Erra cunningly offered to take his place in his temple Esagila.  His symbol was a triangular implement similar to a hoe, and his emblematic creature was the serpent-dragon, or Mushussu, later associated with his son Nabu.  His mother, whose Akkadian epithet means "Queen of the Apsu," was Damkina, and his consort was Sarpanitu.  FTP, name this son of Ea, "the Young Bull of the Sun," who became the supreme god of the Babylonian pantheon in return for defeating Tiamat.;;(Bel) Marduk
Mythology;;In some versions of a Greek myth, an example of this act took place near the recipient's namesake river as a result of a decision by Tmolus which also indirectly resulted in the death of a barber.  In Japanese myth, Susanowo did this to a horse, then tossed it through the roof of Amaterasu's hall.  In Aztec myth, the fertility god Xipe Totec did this to himself in order to stimulate growth.  In Greek myth, this act was perpetrated on a satyr who picked up an instrument cursed by Athena, then lost a contest when he was unable to play his pipes upside-down.  FTP, name the harsh punishment inflicted by Apollo on Marsyas, after which he nailed Marsyas's skin to a tree.;;flaying|flayed
Mythology;;This character once beat a six-headed, six-handed god in a race around the world by sitting down and studying the scriptures while his rival set off running.  That rival, sometimes considered his brother, was the war god Skanda or Karttikeya.  While disguised as a cowherd, he was given the Atmalingam by Ravana, who had taken it from this god's father.  This god of wisdom and prudence was also credited with transcribing, at Vyasa's dictation, the Mahabharata.  FTP, name this god who, rather than block an axe belonging to his father Shiva, allowed Parasurama to break one of his tusks.;;Ganesh
Mythology;;The River-god Helicon dove underground to avoid becoming an accessory to this man's murder when his killers went to cleanse themselves of his blood.  This father of Leos was said to have tutored the young Midas.  According to some accounts, Thamyris and this man were taught by his brother Linus before Apollo killed Linus out of jealousy.  He uttered prophecies after his death until he was ordered to shut up by Apollo, who traveled to the isle of Lemnos where the river Hebrus had deposited his head after he was torn apart by Maenads.  FTP, name this son of Oeagrus and Calliope who provided a respite for Tantalus and Sisyphus and charmed Cerberus with his music.;;Orpheus
Mythology;;One character of this name was the daughter of King Hoel, whose servants included Gesnes.  Another character of this name matched a broken-off piece from the sword that killed her uncle with a guest's sword, but refrained from reporting the killer because he had recently killed a dragon.  The latter had a maid named Brangaene who prepared a love potion to ease her incipient marriage; the former, a princess in Brittany, was known for her white hands.  The latter became Queen of Cornwall after marrying King Mark.  FTP, name these two women who loved Tristan.;;Isolde|Isoude
Mythology;;In one myth, he sheds the first tears and digs the first grave after his son is killed by a rattle-snake during a race.  In another story, he gives his blanket to the powerful rock Iya, then takes it back when he gets cold; in retaliation, Iya flattens him.  This happens while he is traveling with Iktomi, a similarly oversexed figure who shares his penchant for mischief.  Often appearing as an antagonist to his brother Wolf, FTP name this popular Native American trickster figure.;;Coyote
Mythology;;In one story the irresistible Taboubu, the daughter of a priest of this goddess, punishes Prince Setna for the theft of a sacred book. The goddess Pekhet was sometimes considered a secondary aspect of this goddess, whose name means "She of the Ointment Jar."  The confused Greeks identified her with Artemis, so that in later times she was sometimes considered the sister of Horus.  At her cult center, she was regarded as both the daughter and consort of Atum-Ra, and by him the mother of Mahes, a lion deity.  Sometimes considered a gentler aspect of Sekhmet, FTP name this cat-headed goddess.;;Bastet
Mythology;;This name was shared by the leader of the twelve sacred white bulls of Augeius and by a son of Eos and Cephalus who was stolen by Aphrodite.  When another character of this name died, his grieving sisters were transformed into poplar-trees, weeping amber tears, or into a thicket of alder by the banks of the Eridanus or the Po.  That character was a nephew of Eos and son of Clymene.  According to Ovid, he gave the Ethiopians their dark skins and turned Libya into a desert after he lost control of his father's chariot, scorching the earth by bringing the sun too close.  FTP, name this son of Helius.;;Phaethon
Mythology;;On one occasion, this creature is lured by the head of Sky-bellower.  On another occasion, several giants are frightened by the results of a lifting contest involving this creature in disguise, when a god lifts one paw of Utgard-Loki's cat.  The first occasion sees the frightened giant Hymir release this creature, cutting Thor's fishing line.  At Ragnarok, this creature will kill and be killed by Thor, presumably after releasing its tail from its mouth.  FTP name this creature which encircles the world in Norse mythology, an enormous snake-like beast.;;Midgard Serpent|Jormungandr|Midgardsorm
Mythology;;This god presided over a world of acorn-eating giants who were ultimately eaten by ferocious jaguars.  Like the Mayan Itzam Na, he was thought to have four manifestations, each associated with a color and cardinal direction; thus, Xipe Totec was sometimes considered this god's red form.  In another manifestation, he tempted the Earth-Monster Cipactli or Tlaltecuhtli to the surface of the waters at the cost of his enormous foot.  His missing foot was replaced by his namesake instrument of divination, which reflected the night sky.  FTP, name this Aztec god known as "Smoking Mirror" whose opposite was Tezcatlanextia.;;Tezcatlipoca
Mythology;;According to some accounts, birds dropped out of the sky during this man's funeral, stunned by the uproar.  He gave Ajax the sword with which Ajax later committed suicide.  His young son, sometimes known as Scamandrius, was thrown over the battlements of his home city by Odysseus or Neoptolemus.  After an inconclusive duel, Ajax gave this man the baldric by which he was later dragged to death, and after his death his body was dragged thrice daily around the tomb of Patroclus.  FTP, name this father of Astyanax and husband of Andromache, the eldest son of Priam.;;Hector
Mythology;;In one myth, he is beheaded under the sacred ished tree by the Great Tom Cat.  In another myth, his opponent takes the form of an ichneumon or mongoose and kills him.  He was born from the saliva of the goddess Neith when she was still in the primeval waters, and grew to a length of 120 yards.  He was usually said to attack in the seventh and twelfth hours of the night, and was greatly feared for his hypnotic eyes and crushing coils.  FTP, name this all-devouring chaos monster, typically depicted as a crocodile or serpent, which attacked Ra every night.;;Apep|Apophis
Mythology;;This character's son by the daughter of Billing did not wash his hands or comb his hair for one day following birth, waiting until he had achieved his purpose by killing another of this character's sons.  Another of this character's sons had runes carved on his tongue and was considered the patron of skalds.  He seduced Gunnlod, and had one son apiece by Rind, Grid, and Jord.  His sons by Rind and Grid were, respectively, Vali and Bragi.  He also brought life to Ask and Embla, in some stories with help of his brothers Vili and Ve.  FTP name this god called the "All-Father" whose son by Jord was Thor.;;Odin
Mythology;;His mother, determined to have a child without recourse to her husband, conceived this god by touching a magical flower from the fields of Olenus, according to the Fasti of Ovid.  This god, or Jupiter, dropped a shield from the heavens as a sign of benevolence to Numa Pompilius, who had eleven copies made to prevent theft.  By his consort Nerio, he was the father of Fuga and Timor.  He also fathered two sons on a mortal woman sometimes called Ilia who was a Vestal Virgin and the daughter of King Numitor.  FTP, name this father of Remus, the Roman god of war.;;Mars
Mythology;;This man tries twice to support himself in England as a shoemaker, but he has too much success and is forced to quit by angry shoemakers.  Later, he builds a gallows for a pregnant mouse he captures after two of his companions disappear, leaving him alone with Cigfa.  This half-brother of Nisien and Efnisien appears in the second branch of the Mabinogi as one of seven Welshmen who survive an attack against Ireland to free this man's sister Branwen.  FTP, name this son of Llyr who became the second husband of Rhiannon.;;Manawydan (ap) (Llyr)
Mythology;;In one story, this character was protected from rape when a friendly goddess sent her detachable vagina across the sea.  Her older brother, a shark-god, helped her navigate after she was banished for seducing her older sister's husband.  That sister, a water-goddess, harrassed her by flooding her out every time she created a new home, forcing her to travel from island to island.  She often shared a grotto under a burning lake with her favorite sister, Hiiaka'.  Frequently appearing as a beautiful young woman or an old crone wearing black, FTP name this resident of Kilauea, the Polynesian goddess of volcanic eruptions.;;Pele
Mythology;;He won the title of Buphagus when he lost an ox-eating contest to Lepreus.  He killed Oreus and Hylaeus after Nephele sent a downpour to help her grandchildren, who became maddened when this man insisted on opening a jar of wine left by Dionysus in the cave of his host Pholus.  He wrestled successfully with a giant who regained strength every time he touched the earth, and with the River-god Achelous.  He married Hebe following his ascension to heaven, which occurred after he donned a poisonous shirt given to him by his wife Deianeira.  FTP, name this strong son of Alcmene who performed twelve labors.;;Heracles
Mythology;;In one text, he has the golden box containing the uraeus of Ra opened in his presence, killing all of his companions and leaving him badly burnt, but he is healed by a lock of Ra's hair.  In some tales, he appears as a vigorous bull who fertilizes the celestial cow, while in other stories he is described as a gander, the "Great Cackler," but he was typically pictured lying prone with vegetation sprouting from his back, as the earth-god.  FTP, name this husband of Nut and father of Osiris.;;Geb|Seb|Keb
Mythology;;This goddess was sometimes said to be a daughter of Meion and Dindyme who had been exposed on her namesake mountain and nourished there by leopards and other ferocious beasts.  In another story, the sky-god Papas masturbates on this goddess while she is disguised as the Agdos rock, producing the double-sexed creature Agdistis.  Her followers included the satyr Marsyas and the Galli.  According to some sources, one of her sanctuaries was defiled by Hippomenes and Atalanta, so she turned them into lions and yoked them to her chariot.  Often identified with Rhea, FTP name this Great Mother goddess of Anatolia.;;Cybele|Kybele|Cybebe|Mater Deum Magna Idaea
Mythology;;This character, who was born at Carmarthen, was sometimes identified as Emrys Gwledig, and he left a treasure near Dinas Emrys which was destined to be discovered by a youth with yellow hair and blue eyes.  After revealing the struggles of a native red dragon with a foreign white dragon, he foretold the coming of a ruler symbolized as the Boar of Cornwall.  He was credited with manufacturing an item which passed to King Leodegan, and with moving the Giants' Ring from County Kildare to Salisbury Plain.  He also set up a tryst with Ygrainne by magically disguising Uther.  FTP, name this wizard and advisor to Arthur.;;Merlin
Mythology;;The island of Lanka appeared during a brief absence of this character from his defense of a mountain against the onslaught of Vayu.  When he was born, he was so radiant that he was mistaken for Agni and worshipped.  His mother lost a wager a wager regarding the color of the horse Uchchaisravas and was imprisoned.  He fended off the attacks of Indra while securing the release of his mother Vinata by obtaining a cup of amrita.  FTP, name this character who mocks the wind with his speed, known as the king of birds, who serves as Vishnu's part-eagle steed.;;Garuda
Mythology;;When he died, his subjects invited his nephew to replace him in preference to his sons Nicostratus and Megapenthes.  He was stuck for eight years in southern waters after insulting Athena, but finally escaped after donning a seal-skin and capturing the sleeping sea-god Proteus, who told him of his brother's murder.  After killing Euphorbus, he helped Ajax guard and carry the body of Patroclus.  This son of Aerope and Pleisthenes or Atreus succeeded to the throne of Sparta following the abdication of his father-in-law Tyndareus.  FTP, name this brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen.;;Menelaus
Mythology;;Her daughter was Hnoss, and her mother was sometimes said to be Nerthus.  While searching for her husband, who went on long journeys, she wept tears of red gold.  She loaned one of her possessions to Loki for a mission to rescue Idunn, and another item to Thor for a mission to rescue Mjollnir after it had been stolen by Thrym, who demanded her hand in marriage.  She could transform into a falcon with her cloak, but she generally traveled in a chariot pulled by two cats.  Accused by Loki of sleeping with every god in Asgard and every elf in Alfheim, FTP name this sexy Vanir love-goddess, the daughter of Njord.;;Freya
Mythology;;In Inca myth, Viracocha sent one called Ono Pacakoti against the giants that built Tiwanaku.  In Mayan myth, one of these was assisted in its work by the birds Camulatz and Tecumbalam.  In Hindu myth, the third avatar of Vishnu helped a brother of the Aswin twins with one of these.  In Greek myth, one of these resulted in the birth of Python.  In Norse myth, Bergelmir and his wife dealt with the one resulting from Ymir's death.  In Sumerian myth, Ubaru-Tutu's son was taken to Dilmun after making use of a dove, a swallow, and a raven in dealing with one of these.  The fish Matsya helped Manu Vivasvat survive, FTP, what type of catastrophe also survived by Utnapishtim, Pyrrha, and Deucalion?.;;floods|deluges
Mythology;;In one story, this god gives advice to a serpent on capturing an eagle using the cadaver of a bull after the eagle breaks an oath of loyalty sworn before this god, who was identified with the Sumerian Utu.  With Marduk and Ea he formed a triad of sympathetic gods who were thought to avert evil influences.  He was guarded at Mount Mashu by the scorpion-people encountered by Gilgamesh, and in the epic of Gilgamesh he helps in the attack on Humbaba.  Depicted on the stele of the Code of Hammurabi, FTP name this Babylonian solar god of justice.;;Shamash
Mythology;;In Slavic mythology, the three Zorya kept watch against the failure of one of these, which would result in the devouring of Ursa Minor and the destruction of the world.  Herne the Hunter was said to make a dreadful noise with one of these, possibly identical with the golden one his king gave him as a reward during his life.  The Irish god Oghma was depicted with golden ones connecting his tongue to the ears of his listeners, and the Irish god Aengus found his beloved Caer in the midst of 150 maidens bound by one of these items.  FTP, name these items whose examples in Norse mythology included Dromi and Laeding, which were broken by Fenrir.;;chains|fetters
Mythology;;During a raid, he took 50 herds of cattle, 50 flocks of sheep, 50 droves of swine, 50 flocks of goats, and 150 chestnut mares from the Eleans, then killed the Elean commander Amarynceus.  His son Antilochus was killed by Memnon after one of his chariot horses was shot by Paris.  Apollo gave him the years taken from his maternal uncles, the sons of Niobe, so that he lived for 300 years.  His son Pisistratus helped search for Odysseus after Telemachus came to this man's court at Pylos.  FTP, name this son of Neleus who appears in the Iliad as a wise old man.;;Nestor
Mythology;;She can often be found relaxing amid the white lotuses that grow in the five pools of a heaven made entirely of gold and precious jewels.  She was reborn during the churning of the ocean, and later appeared as Dharani.  One myth states that she had two co-wives before her husband grew tired of their quarreling and gave away Ganga and Sarasvati.  She also appears as the cow-girl Radha and as a daughter of King Janaka who is born in a furrow of a plowed field.  FTP, name this goddess of good wealth who was incarnated as Sita, the consort of Vishnu.;;Lakshmi
Mythology;;This Thespian, who died at Donacon, was conceived when the River-god Cephisus ravished the blue Nymph Leiriope.  He rejected Ameinius, sending Ameinius a sword with which Ameinius committed suicide on this man's threshold, calling on the gods for vengeance and garnering Artemis's sympathy.  Teiresias predicted he "will live to a ripe old age, provided he never knows himself," but Artemis contrived for him to find an undisturbed spring, which proved his undoing.  FTP, name this beautiful youth who fell in love with and died admiring his own reflection.;;Narcissus
Mythology;;He was given the task of sounding a trumpet shell with no holes in it, which he accomplished with the help of worms and bees.  In return, he was given one long bone, over which he sprinkled some of his own blood to recreate humanity.  He had earlier ruled over the world until a hurricane destroyed most of humanity and transformed the survivors into monkeys, ending the Second Sun.  He immolated himself after becoming disgusted by his own body, which he saw in a mirror held by Tezcatlipoca.  His heart then turned into a bird, or the morning star.  FTP, name this Aztec god known as the Feathered Serpent.;;Quetzalcoatl
Mythology;;In the Aeneid, the shade of Anchises describes this character marked with double plumes in his crest, the emblem of his father, and Vulcan makes a shield for Aeneas that depicts scenes from this character's infancy and his treaty with Titus Tatius.  Important women in his life included his wife Hersilia and his foster mother Acca Larentia.  Following his death, he was identified with the god Quirinus.  He defeated his great-uncle Amulius with the help of his twin brother, but later killed that brother.  FTP, name this son of Rhea Silvia and Mars, the founder of Rome.;;Romulus
Mythology;;King Phegeus of Psophis sent the necklace of Harmonia to one of this god's shrines, and Philoctetes dedicated his bow at Crimissa in a sanctuary to this god with the epithet "Distraught."  This father of Idmon, Aristaeus and Mopsus built an altar made entirely of the horns of countless she-goats killed by his sister.  During the Trojan War, he rescued the body of Sarpedon; earlier, he spat in Cassandra's mouth so that no one would believe her, after giving her the gift of prophecy.  FTP name this god who killed the Python and appropriated the Delphic Oracle, the son of Zeus and Leto.;;Apollo
Mythology;;Shortly before her suicide, one man commented that she gave her two companions in a chariot the look of a ewe between two rams.  She made a vow regarding the man she would love inspired by the sight of a raven drinking the blood of a calf being skinned in the snow.  That man, one of the Sons of Uisneach, was Naoise, who was initially reluctant to steal her from Conchobar.  While still in her mother's womb, she gave a great cry, leading the druid Cathbad to predict that, FTP, what beautiful woman of Irish myth would bring ruin and sorrow?.;;Deirdre|Derdriu (of) (the) (Sorrows)
Mythology;;One character of this name in Greek myth was a brother of Cadmus who traveled to what would later be Carthage, and then to Canaan, which was renamed in his honor.  Another character of this name was cursed by his father Amyntor with childlessness and blindness, but had his sight restored with the help of Peleus.  He was sent along with Ajax and Odysseus to offer gifts and the return of Briseis to Achilles.  This name was also given to a creature known for flying to Heliopolis to deposit an egg made of myrrh containing the ashes of its predecessor.  FTP, name this self-immolating bird.;;Phoenix
Mythology;;He was found by a hero at the well of Pirene through the efforts of Athena or Poseidon.  He was conceived as a result of his mother's tryst with Poseidon in a temple of Athena, and was born fully fledged along with his brother Chrysaor at the moment of his mother's beheading.  According to Ovid, his stamping on Mount Helicon caused the fountain Hippocrene to gush forth.  He aided a hero who was given the task of killing a monster with the tail of a serpent, the body of a goat, and a fire-breathing lion's head.  FTP, name this son of Medusa, a winged horse ridden by Bellerophon.;;Pegasus
Mythology;;This god, whose role was similar to that of Wepwawet, appears briefly in The Golden Ass, where he is described as a "messenger between heaven and hell, displaying alternately a face black as night and golden as day."  In one story, when Set disguised himself as a leopard, this god seized Set and branded him all over with a hot iron, then flayed him and wore his skin.  He was sometimes considered the illegitimate son of Osiris by Nephthys, and he assisted Isis in her quest to find and embalm the body of Osiris.  FTP, name this funerary deity with the head of a black dog or jackal.;;Anubis
Mythology;;He summons a copper-clad midget of the water-folk to cut down an oak that blocks out the sun and moon.  His rival offers him horses, boats and crossbows, but he refuses to relent until he is offered his rival's sister.  At this point, his rival's teeth are stuck in a treetrunk, as this character has sunk his rival into a bog by singing.  Aino drowns herself rather than marry him, and his steed is shot from under him by his rival Joukahainen.  Later, in response to Louhi's requesting the forging of the Sampo, he promises to send the smith Ilmarinen.  FTP, name this old hero of the Kalevala.;;Vainamoinen
Mythology;;According to some sources, one character with this name was the daughter of Helen and Theseus.  Another character of this name was lured with the promise of marriage to Achilles; according to some accounts, she did marry Achilles, and she, not Deidameia, became the mother of Neoptolemus.  In another version of her story, she was taken to the kingdom of Thoas and became a priestess of Artemis.  Calchas called for her death when her father's fleet remained windbound at Aulis.  FTP, name this daughter of Clytemnestra, the sister of Electra.;;Iphigenia
Mythology;;Among this character's prized possessions was his white horse, Uchchaisravas.  His lust for Ahalya earned him the ire of the sage Gautama, who cursed him to bear on his body one thousand marks of the yoni, which were later transformed into eyes.  This god was captured and ransomed by Meghanada, the son of Ravana, who acquired a new name and immortality as a result.  He killed his father Dyaus as an encore to freeing the cloud cattle from a demon in the form of a dragon, a task he accomplished with the help of the maruts.  FTP name this Vedic storm god  who killed Vritra.;;Indra
Mythology;;The Mysian king Telegonus killed this man's son Thersander.  This man's father-in-law was advised by the Oracle at Delphi to yoke a lion, which represented this man, and a boar, to a two-wheeled chariot.  His father-in-law followed the advice, allowing this man to marry Aegeia and reconciling this man with Tydeus.  His father-in-law Adrastus then summoned four more Argive chieftains to help this man reclaim his throne from his twin, who refused to step down after a year of ruling Thebes.  His corpse was burned on a pyre, or buried, in defiance of Creon's orders, by his sister Antigone.  FTP, name this twin brother of Eteocles.;;Polyneices
Mythology;;In Korean myth, it was represented by Dalnim.  A god associated with it killed the fertility goddess Ukemochi when she offended him by vomiting large quantities of food.  The Ainu goddess Chup-Kamui spent one night in charge of it, but observed so much adulterous behavior, she begged off her post.  In Chinese myth, it was associated with the goddess Heng O, who represented the cold and dark principle of yin, and was thought to be one of the primordial giant Pan-gu's eyes.  FTP, name this luminous object associated with the Shinto god Tsuki-Yumi, whose bith from the right eye of Izanagi made him the brother of the solar goddess Amaterasu.;;(the) moon
Mythology;;This character stayed in Ulfdalir after his brothers left to follow their wives Hlathguth and Olrun.  This brother of Slagfith and Egil killed two boys, set their skulls in silver as goblets, and fashioned a brooch from their teeth.  He also raped Bodvild to complete his revenge on Nidud, who captured him, cut the sinews of his knee-joints, and forced him to create precious things.  This story can be found in his namesake heroic lay in the Poetic Edda.  FTP, name this character credited with creating the sword Balmung and the armor of Beowulf, a master smith of Germanic and English legend.;;Wayland|Weyland|Volund|Velent (the) (Smith)
Mythology;;The mother goddess of this people's pantheon, Hannahanna, once sent a bee to search for the missing god of agriculture, Telipinu.  In one of the myths of these people, a diorite giant grows an acre in a month while hiding on the shoulder of Upelluri before his feet are cut off with the copper knife that separated the heavens from the earth.  In that myth, known as the "Song of Ullikummi," Anu's cupbearer Kumarbi bites off Anu's genitals.  The "Song of Ullikummi" and several other myths were borrowed from the Hurrians by, FTP, what ancient people who wrote of "the thousand gods of Hatti"?.;;Hittite
Mythology;;One character of this name, a daughter of Adrastus, married Ilus and bore him Laomedon.  Another character of this name was the sister or aunt of Hyacinthus, married Acrisius, and became the mother of Danae.  In the Georgics, the death of a character of this name results in the deaths of the bees of Aristaeus, who tried to rape her near Tempe.  In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the same character dies during her own wedding celebrations from a snakebite.  Her husband tries to save her, but can't resist looking back before leaving the Underworld.  FTP, give the name of the wife of Orpheus.;;Eurydice
Mythology;;The dying Fafnir tells Sigurd that this figure will mix his blood with that of the Aesir on the island of Oskapt.  In the Svipdagssmol, the sword Laevateinn is said to be guarded by this character's wife Sinmora.  In the Voluspa, the seeress says that he will come from the south with the "spoiler of twigs," and only Hoddmimir's wood will survive his onslaught.  His sword shines more brightly than the sun, and he will use it on the plain of Vigrid to kill the unarmed god Frey.  FTP, name this sentinel of Muspellheim who will spread fire over the world at Ragnarok.;;Surt|Surtur
Mythology;;During a fire alarm, an older brother of Idaeus rushed to save it and was temporarily blinded for his troubles.  The Pleiad Electra, after being violated by Zeus, defiled this item, which was found overgrown with weeds and half buried in front of the tent of Ilus.  According to some accounts, it was fashioned from the bones of Pelops. It was usually described as a legless image three cubits high, carrying a distaff and spindle in the left hand and a spear in the right, with its chest wrapped in the aegis.  Stolen by Odysseus and Diomedes, and said to carry the destiny of Troy, FTP name this statue fashioned by Athena in the likeness of her dead childhood playmate Pallas.;;(the) (Trojan) Palladium
Mythology;;He was the son of the River-god Sangarios's daughter Nana, who conceived when she hid an almond or pomegranate in her lap.  In a ritual reenactment of his death, a pine tree decked with wreaths of violets and swathed in woollen bands like a corpse was given blood offerings from priests who gashed themselves on the Day of Blood.  He died when, in a fit of madness, he castrated himself.  At Rome, the Hilaria was celebrated near the vernal equinox in honor of his annual resurrection.  FTP name this figure of Phrygian mythology, the charioteer and consort of Cybele.;;Attis
Mythology;;This youngest of seven siblings had an older brother with a sword in place of a head and a trunk of stone.  He had affairs with Minona and Gbadu, but he was found out and cursed with an eternal erection by his mother.  This god, sometimes identified with the Yoruban Eshu, understands all languages.  This son of Mawu also appears as a loa in voodoo belief, where he is invoked at the start of all ceremonies.  FTP, name this trickster god of the Fon who, in voodoo belief, is often given the title Papa.;;Legba
Mythology;;He shared an alternate name with the Greek rendering of the name of the deified Nile and with one of the sons of Horus.  He had the image of a vulture with wings outstretched on his back and the image of a scarab on his tongue.  Each of his movements had prophetic value, and crowds of the devout and the curious attended the spectacle of his daily frolic.  He was also marked by a crescent moon on his right flank and a white triangle on his forehead.  Thought to be the result of a union of Ptah in the form of a celestial fire with a virgin heifer, FTP name this sacred black bull of Memphis.;;(the) Apis (bull)|Hapy|Hapi
Mythology;;This character broke up the unions of his six sons and six daughters, fearing to infringe on the Olympic prerogative of incest.  In the Aeneid, Juno promises the nymph Deiopea to this son of Arne and Poseidon in return for his help against the fleet of Aeneas.  In the Odyssey, Odysseus visits his island twice, but this father-in-law of Ceyx proves inhospitable the second time after Odysseus's men, hoping for wine, untie the silver cord from a special bag given by this character to Odysseus.  Before the bag was untied, only Zephyrus was free to act.  FTP, name this immortal who was placed in charge of the winds.;;Aeolus
Mythology;;According to one myth, his jaw was injured shortly after his birth when a god threw a thunderbolt at him, but his father soon avenged him by entering the bodies of all the gods and giving them colic.  His battle roar could shatter enemies, but he threw the giant Kalanemi to his death and killed Saurasa by allowing her to swallow him and then swelling up to the size of a mountain.  He once swallowed the moon to keep it from affecting some magic herbs he was bringing from the Himalayas, and at his birth he thought the sun was a fruit and tried to catch and eat it.  FTP, name this son of Anjana and Vayu who set fire to all of Lanka after Ravana set fire to his tail, a monkey general in the Ramayana.;;Hanuman
Mythology;;According to some sources, this man was responsible for the stench of the river Anigrus, having thrown into it the foul objects he used to purify the daughters of Proetus.  This grandson of Cretheus was the first mortal to temper wine with water and the first to practice as a physician.  He obtained Phylacus's cattle, enabling the marriage of his cousin Pero to his brother Bias, and cured the impotence of Iphiclus using the rust from a knife.  FTP, name this first mortal to be granted prophetic powers who overheard two woodworms discussing the collapse of the roof of his prison cell.;;Melampus
Mythology;;She carries off Aeschere, an act of blood vengeance, and has a chance to kill her son's killer when she knocks him down, sits on him, and attacks with a sword, but his armor saves him.  That killer finds a weapon in her home which he uses to kill her and behead her son's corpse.  The weapon is a sword made by the giants, which her foe picks up after the blade Hrunting fails to damage her.  This descendant of Cain is tracked to her home in a mere from the hall of Heorot after she travels there to retrieve her son's severed arm.  FTP, name this monster who, like her son, dies at the hands of Beowulf.;;Grendel's mother
Mythology;;These people believed in a shape-shifting monster made of ice, or ice and mud, which was the namesake of a cannibalistic psychosis.  They also believed that the human race was founded by the Muskrat and her husband, the son of Kabun.  They feared the Wendigo, and worshipped the earth goddess Grandmother Nokomis, as well as a culture hero known as the Great Hare, Michabo.  FTP, name these people whose strength prompted the hero Hiawatha to band together the Iriquois Nations.;;Algonquins
Mythology;;According to certain oral traditions, this god rolled along on land using his three legs, always surrounded by a magic mist.  He kept his prized knife and shirt, as well as the bones of Asal's swine, in his Crane Bag.  He possessed magic swine which returned to life each day after being killed and eaten with Goibniu's ale of immortality.  He shook his magic cloak between Cuchulainn and his wife to keep Cuchulainn from ever seeing Fand again.  His other possessions included the ship Wave-Sweeper and a chariot pulled by two horses that could run over water.  FTP name this Irish sea-god, the son of Lir, who was identified with the Welsh Manawydan.;;Manannan (mac) (Lir)
Mythology;;In this character's sanctuary at Pergamus, the name of Telephus's son Eurypylus could never be spoken, since Eurypylus had killed this character's son Machaon.  His mother, the daughter of Ixion's brother Phlegyas, gave in to a secret passion for Ischys, and the indiscretion was reported to his father by a crow.  Athena gave one or two vials of the blood of Medusa to this son of Coronis, who worked on Hippolytus at the behest of Artemis.  This father of Hygieia was killed after Hades complained to Zeus about losing subjects.  FTP, name this son of Apollo who gained the power to resurrect the dead.;;Asclepius
Mythology;;Her father seeks advice from an oracle in Albunea after a portent in which this character's hair and crown seem wreathed in flame, signaling her destined fame and the strife she would cause.  Drances counsels her father to give her in marriage to a foreign prince, angering the brother of Juturna.  She eventually marries that foreign prince and becomes the mother of Silvius despite the objections of her mother Amata.  Silvius eventually becomes king of Alba Longa, succeeding her son-in-law Iulus.  FTP, name this daughter of Latinus who marries Aeneas.;;Lavinia
Mythology;;This god was traveling with Loki and Odin when Loki killed Otter, and when Thiazi flew off with Loki.  In the Voluspo, he is credited with giving sense to Ask and Embla, and it is prophecied that he will survive Ragnarok and gain the power of foretelling the future.  This god is noted for his long-leggedness, and for his annoying habit of frequently saying, "Let others decide," which led to the decapitation of his advisor.  FTP, name this Norse god who proved himself useless in council among the Vanir after being given to them as a hostage with Mimir.;;Honir|Hoenir|Haenir
Mythology;;Dionysus prophecied that this woman and her husband would ride in a chariot drawn by heifers and rule over barbarian hordes.  Late in life, she and her husband were given rule of Illyria by their daughter Agave.  Amphiaraus's wife Eriphyle was bribed on two separate occasions with treasures that had been given as wedding presents to this woman.  One of those presents was a robe given by Athena; the other, given by this woman's mother Aphrodite, was an item which rendered its wearer irresistibly beautiful.  FTP, name this woman noted for her magic necklace, the wife of Cadmus.;;Harmonia
Mythology;;In some accounts, one character of this name was a sister of Morgause and Morgan le Fay.  A second character of this name had a great-uncle named Garlon who could become invisible while armed, and a grandfather who suffered the Dolorous Stroke at the hands of Balin.  A third character of this name, known as the Maid of Astolat, died of grief and was floated on a barge to Camelot.  The father of the second character of this name used a magic potion to make his daughter look like Guinevere, fooling Lancelot into sleeping with her.  FTP, give the name of the daughter of Pelles who became the mother of Galahad.;;Elaine
Mythology;;In the Homeric Hymn to this figure, she is said to be the mother by Zeus of Pandia.  Her younger sister was cursed with perpetual longing for young mortals after Aphrodite caught Ares in her sister's bed.  This goddess fell in love with the mortal son of Zeus and Calyce, and had fifty daughters by him.  This daughter of Theia first spotted her lover in a cave on Mount Latmus, and Hypnos later granted her lover the power of sleeping with his eyes open.  FTP, name this daughter of Hyperion and sister of Eos and Helius, a Greek moon-goddess.;;Selene
Mythology;;According to one tradition, he was born when a god sometimes called the "Great He-She" spat him out.  Treated in some texts as deified emptiness, he was identified with the god Anhur, and wore an ostrich feather on his head.  After being attacked in his palace of At Nub by the children of Apep, this second divine pharaoh abdicated his throne.  Due to jealousy born of incestuous passion, or on his father's orders, he slipped between his two children and violently separated them, supporting his daughter's belly on his outstretched arms.  FTP, name this god of air, the husband of Tefnut and father of Geb and Nut.;;Shu
Mythology;;This son of Laomedon governed the province of Persia for the Assyrian king Teutamus.  His half-brother Priam gave him a golden vine as a bribe to get him to send his son Memnon the Ethiopian into the Trojan War.  He became the lover of Astraeus's wife, a goddess who was the mother of the four winds.  That goddess had previously had affairs with Cleitus, Cephalus, and Orion.  His lover locked him in a room after she convinced Zeus to grant him immortality, but forgot to ask for eternal youth.  FTP, name this man who had an affair with Eos before turning into a cicada.;;Tithonus
Mythology;;He once sent the husband of Cigfa a present of pigs.  Angered over the theft of a lapwing, a dog, and a roebuck, he instigated the Battle of the Trees, which he lost to Amaethon and Gwydion.  He threatened a prince with being satirized to the value of a hundred stags for a breach of hunting etiquette, but relented when the prince agreed to do him the favor of delivering one blow to his rival, Hafgan.  To accomplish Hafgan's death, he ruled Dyfed for a year in Pwyll's place.  FTP, name this Celtic god of agriculture and death, the Lord of Annwn.;;Arawn
Mythology;;As a result of losing a gambling match, they had to spend twelve years in exile in a forest, then a thirteenth year in a city without being recognized.  They took their name from a son of Ambalika, who turned pale at the sight of a certain hermit.  Two of them were born to Madri after she prayed to the Aswans.  The eldest was a son of Yama, and the second-oldest, a son of Vayu, used a mace to smash the thigh of Duryodhana, the leader of a group of one hundred brothers whom they fought at Kurukshetra.  Bhima and Yudisthira were members of, FTP, what group of five brothers featured in the Mahabharata in opposition to the Kauravas?.;;Pandavas
Mythology;;Unlike her sisters Amphinome and Evadne, she refused to shed the blood of her father when Medea falsely promised to restore Pelias to youth if he consented to being cut up.  Pelias promised her to the man who could yoke a boar and a lion to a chariot and drive once around a race-course, a feat accomplished with the help of a god who was her husband's herdsman for a year.  In gratitude for his kind treatment, Apollo not only helped her husband win her hand, he also once gained her husband a temporary reprieve by getting the Fates drunk.  She then voluntarily took her husband's place, but was rescued by Heracles or sent back by Persephone.  FTP, name this woman who died for her husband Admetus.;;Alcestis
Mythology;;Partway through his six years in his mother's womb, he vowed never to run in fear from fire or iron. Later in life, he married the same wish-maiden who brought the magical apple of fertility that resulted in his birth.  His wife Hljod bore him ten sons and a daughter, and that daughter later predicted his death at the hands of the King of Gautland, Siggeir.  This son of King Rerir built his palace around a large tree, known as the Barnstock, out of which one of his sons drew a sword thrust into the trunk by Odin.  FTP, name this namesake of a Norse saga, the father of Sigmund.;;Volsung
Mythology;;In one creation myth, a goddess associated with this creature divided herself, producing Woman of the Hard Substances, who became the always-bride of Tawa.  A god associated with this creature won a box full of stories from his father with the help of his wife Aso.  A daughter of Idmon of Colophon who depicted the illicit love affairs of the Olympians was turned into one of these after hanging herself.  The Hopi mother goddess, the Lakota trickster figure Iktomi, and the Ashanti god Anansi were all associated with, FTP, what type of creature into which the jealous Athena transformed the weaver Arachne?.;;spider
Mythology;;One character in this work is abandoned after being born with white hair, but he is found and raised by a creature so ancient, it has seen the destruction of the world three times over.  That character's son shows early signs of greatness by clubbing a white elephant to death.  This poem also sees the mighty Raksh become the chosen steed of a hero who slays the White Deev and uses its blood to restore the sight of Kay Kavous.  Later, that hero unknowingly kills his son Sohrab.  FTP, name this epic whose characters include Kay Khosrau and Rostam, composed by Ferdowsi.;;Shahnameh|Shahnama|Epic of Kings|Book of Kings
Mythology;;In the Lokasenna she is credited with placing a poison-snake over the bound form of Loki as part of his torment.  As a result of her father's death, she married the lord of Noatun, but she soon returned to Thrymheim.  Her father's death came while he was in the form of an eagle, pursuing a falcon carrying a nut.  The nut was the shape-shifted Idunn, who had been kidnapped by this goddess's father.  She was given her choice of the available gods as a husband, but she had to choose based solely on the appearance of their feet.  FTP, name this daughter of Thiazi who married Njord.;;Skadi
Mythology;;He purified Pelops's son Copreus from murder, and employed Copreus as a herald.  He was born prematurely to Nicippe after Zeus swore an oath that any prince born to the House of Perseus before nightfall should be High King.  This son of Sthenelus refused to give his cousin credit for a task in which his cousin was aided by Iolaus.  He took to sending orders to his cousin by messenger while hiding in a bronze urn underground after seeing the corpse of the Nemean Lion.  FTP, name this man who set twelve labors for his cousin Heracles.;;Eurystheus
Mythology;;Vishnu once saved them, appearing in the form of Narmada and routing their enemies, the Gandharvas. One of them named Kaliya terrorised the herdsmen near his home in the River Jumna until he was defeated by the young Krishna.  These descendants of Kadru and the sage Kasyapa wear the best gems of the three worlds in hoods above their heads, lighting up the darkness of the underworld, Patala.  Their king, known as Ananta or Sesha, is a symbol of eternity, especially when he holds his tail in his mouth.  FTP, name these serpent demons of Hindu mythology.;;nagas
Mythology;;On one occasion, two-thirds of the brain of Mes Gegra were slung into this man's head, requiring stitches from his physician Fingen.  He was conceived when his mother asked his father, who was passing by, what the day was good for, to which his father replied that it was good for begetting a king upon a queen.  He was the half-brother of Dechtire and the son of Queen Ness and the druid Cathbad.  Protected by the Red Branch Knights, FTP name this king who ruled from his palace at Emain Macha, the uncle of Cuchulainn.;;Conchobar (mac) (Nessa)
Mythology;;He spread a rumor that Heracles was a habitual and perverse cross-dresser following an incident in which he stealthily attempted to rape Omphale, but chose the wrong couch.  He made a gift of seven swift Spartan hounds and three lop-eared hounds to the young Artemis.  He made strategic use of some well-washed white fleeces in seducing Selene.  A sailor named Thamus heard a divine voice proclaiming the death of this god.  FTP, name this Arcadian god who pursued the nymph Syrinx, known for his namesake reed pipes and goatish appearance.;;Goat(-)Pan
Mythology;;While she was in charge of the universe, people subsisted on cencocopi or teocentli seeds.  She was sometimes thought to be the wife of the primordial god Xiuhtecuhtli, but she was more commonly considered the wife of another god by whom she was the mother of the lunar god Tecciztecatl.  This patroness of childbirth presided over the Fourth Sun, which ended when she transformed people into fish and sent a great flood.  Known as "She of the Jade Skirt," FTP name this Aztec goddess of water and wife of Tlaloc.;;Chalchiuhtlicue
Mythology;;This man defended his kingdom against an invading army with the help of his nephews, the Moliones, who wounded Iphicles during the fighting.  He banished his eldest son Phyleus from Elis after refusing to pay a hero on the grounds that the River-gods Peneius or Menius and Alpheus had done all the work.  By divine dispensation, his animals were inimitably fertile, immune to disease, and never miscarried.  The Peloponnese suffered a pestilence originating in the stench from his sheep folds and cattle yards, which were deep in dung.  FTP, name this man whose filthy stables were cleaned by Heracles.;;(King) Augeias
Mythology;;His death is signaled by blood leaking from his comb.  He succeeds in bridling the Demon's bay horse and in skiing for the Demon's elk before he falls victim to the revenge of Dripcap, who tosses a water snake through his left armpit, heart, and liver.  He is reassembled with the help of a rake with prongs one hundred fathoms long, and his mother then smears him with mead and honey to resurrect him.  FTP, name this hero whose death while preparing to shoot one arrow at a swan on the black river of Tuonela is described in the Kalevala.;;Lemminkainen
Mythology;;In one tale an Egyptian magician made two wax images of these creatures come to life and write down 35 good and 35 bad stories.  Horus's son Hapy, the guardian of mummified lungs, was sometimes depicted with the head of one of these creatures.  One god associated with the moon assumed this form while traveling through the Nubian desert in the myth of the Distant Goddess.  The lunar deity Khonsu also assumed this form in his aspect as the Keeper of the Books of the End of the Year, and was sometimes identified with one of these creatures shown perched on the scales of Maat.  The god Babi was endowed with the aggressive virility of a dominant male one.  FTP, name these simians associated with Thoth.;;baboons
Mythology;;This priest of Thymbraean Apollo angered Apollo by breaking a vow of chastity and lying with his wife Antiope in the god's sight.  His people, having stoned their priest of Poseidon nine years earlier, selected this son of Antenor by lot to propitiate Poseidon, but before he could perform the sacrifice he was killed by Porces and Chariboea, or Curissia, or Periboea, two monsters sent from Tenedos and the Calydnian islands.  Shortly before his death, he nearly killed Neoptolemus when he threw his spear into the flank of the Trojan Horse.  FTP, name this man Trojan who died trying to save his twin sons from two great sea-serpents.;;Laocoon
Mythology;;The sexless kurgarru and kalaturru were sent to negotiate with and flatter this goddess.  This goddess's younger sister once tried to claim rulership of this goddess's domain after entering a temple of lapis lazuli dedicated to this goddess, or else paid a visit on the occasion of the death of this goddess's husband Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven.  She told her porter Neti to let her sister in, but forced her sister to strip off clothes and jewels at each of seven gates, then killed her when she was naked.  FTP, name this ruler of the Great Below and sister of Inanna, the Sumerian death goddess.;;Ereshkigal