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| West African trickster, liminal figure, friends with gods |
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| Between two worlds, threshold between categories, in between gods and humans |
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| people who were enslaved, brought stories to the New World |
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| ruler of gods, keeper of the stories |
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| Shape-shifters, closely associated with language, amoral, same rules do not apply to them, often liminal |
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| Not necessarily bad or evil, but not good either. |
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| Hornets that Anansi must bring back to Nyame to get all the stories, uses trickery to trap them in a gourd. |
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| The python Anansi must bring to Nyame, is talked into stretching out and being tied to a tree. |
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| Panther Anansi must bring to Nyame, falls into a deep hole and is captured by Anansi's web |
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| symbol or linguist, Akan royal spokesman |
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| name of Nyame's daughter. it is a secret and must be found out to win her hand in marriage |
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| character from Akan (or West African) myth. Anansi tells him the name of Nyame's daughter, and when Anansi refuses to say the name, Lizard says it and wins Baduasemanpensa as his wife. |
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| used as a talking drum. formulaic "talking", associated with gods, kingship and linguistic skill |
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| name of a snake from Akan myth who is a friend of Anansi. Anansi borrows money from him but can't repay it, so he frames Owoh for the theft of some yams and finally kills him. When Owoh, dying, rolls over, it establishes the rule that snakes will roll on their backs when they die. |
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| god from Greek myth who is one of the Titans. In the Theogony, he is the father of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas. |
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| goddess from Greek myth who is one of the Titans. In the Theogony, she is the mother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Atlas. |
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| Holds up the sky, son of Iapetos and Clymene |
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| brother to Atlas, stole fire from Zeus and gave it to the mortals, trickster |
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| god from Greek myth who is the brother of Prometheus. Zeus gives Pandora to him as his wife. |
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| king of the gods in Greek mythology. Hesiod praises him and characterizes him as the epitome of justice in the Theogony and the Works and Days, but in the Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus says that Zeus is a cruel and unjust tyrant. |
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| Son of Zeus and Hera, creates Zeus's master bolt |
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| used by Prometheus to steal fire from the gods. After Prometheus tricked Zeus with the sacrifice at Mecone, Zeus refused to give fire to humans, so Prometheus stole it in a fennel stalk and gave it to humans. |
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| Greek goddess associated with wisdom, crafts, and warfare. In the story of Pandora, she weaves the clothing for Pandora and teaches her all of the crafts traditionally practiced by ancient Greek women. In the story of the Judgement of Paris, Athena is one of the goddesses contending for the golden apple, and she offers to give Paris victory in war if he chooses her. |
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| Greek author, "Works and Days" and "Theogony" |
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| Written by Hesiod, story of Pandora and Prometheus and the 5 mythic ages |
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| Written by Hesiod, tells the story of the creation of the Greek gods |
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| concept in the mythologies of many cultures. It is the idea of an early time when humans had a perfect life with no troubles and no need to work. One example of a Golden Age myth is the story of Adam and Eve, who had a life without pain and toil before their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Hesiod tells two different Golden Age myths: the story of Pandora, in which Pandora ends a Golden Age by introducing sickness and worry, and the Myth of the Races, in which the Golden Age is the time when the Golden Race lived. |
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| Created to punish mankind for Prometheus' tricks, made by Hephaistos, Athena, Aphrodite, and Hermes |
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| God of travel, crossing boundaries. Gives Pandora trickiness/evil |
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| Greek word for large ceramic jar, made from clay like Pandora. Contains toil, sickness and ills that ends the Golden Age |
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| small ceramic box for makeup, sometimes called Pandora's box |
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| 5 ages of men: gold, silver, bronze, heroes, and iron. |
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| Live like gods, die by falling asleep |
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| never grow up. irritate the gods and are killed by them |
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| violent and primal. kill eachother off |
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| die naturally and go to Elsyium. have descendants. |
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| humans exist in toil and misery, gods forsake them |
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| great Athenian tragedian, "Prometheus Bound" was written to him |
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| Story of Prometheus bound by Hephaistos, probably written to Aeschylus |
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| Where Prometheus is bound, located between Black Sea and Caspian Sea |
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| one of the mountains imprisoning Prometheus |
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| one of the mountains imprisoning Prometheus |
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| another name for the type of fennel that Prometheus used to steal fire from the gods. (You can use the same definition for this as for "fennel stalk;" just explain that "narthex" means "fennel.") |
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| ocean, binatural god. tells Prometheus to stop fighting Zeus and to be more cautious |
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| 3 goddesses that control the Fates. control gods and humans |
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| "Spinner". thread depicting human life |
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| "Apportioner of lots". measures human life |
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| "not turning away". Snipping the thread |
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| priestess of Hera, tormented by Zeus and Hera. guarded by Argos and haunted by his ghost. |
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| Queen of the Gods, wife to Zeus, turns Io into a cow to protect her from Zeus. |
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| His ghost haunts Io. 10,000 eyes all over his body. Sent by Hera to guard Io. |
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