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| One of the three fates -- the one who spins the thread: |
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| Heracles was dressed as a woman while he served as the slave of... |
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| A nymph of springs and other flowing waters is called a... |
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| A Thracian earth goddess in origin; the Greeks identified her as the mother of Dionysus... |
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| Wife of Heracles; sister of Meleager; tricked by Nessus |
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| Daughter of Zeus and Demeter who was abducted by Hades... |
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| Daughter of Agenor whom Zeus abducted in bull-form.. |
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| Apollo's epithet (title) that is derived from the Greek word for mouse: |
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| Paris judged a beauty contest between Hera, Aphrodite, and ... |
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| Some scholars claim that we can see a Greek survival of Proto-Indo European tripartite idiology in the story of the... |
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| The three headed hound of Hades: |
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| Heracles used this monster's blood to poison his arrows |
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| The head of the Eqqus October is fought over by residents of the Sacra Via and residents of the |
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| The Asvamedha makes clear that the Eqqus October is a sacrifice made on behalf of the... |
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| Young Hermes stole cattle from... |
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| Vedic god who represents the legal aspect of the first function: |
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| The elite warrior group of Mitanni: |
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| The triple sinning warrior in ancient India |
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| Indo-Aryan god who shares several characteristics with Greek Hermes |
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| A Thracian king who persecuted Dionysus and died hated by all the gods |
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| Ixion's offspring by the cloud-clone |
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| Artemis is affiliated with both the hunt and with: |
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| Like Indra, this Roman warrior was saved by the intervention of three third-function deities: |
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| The Indo-Aryan rain god finds a cognate deity in Lithuanian.... |
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| Heracles cleaned out the stables of |
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| Marsyas was one of those creatures called a ... |
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| Meleager chose to give the boar's hide to this woman warrior... |
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| Rudra is the predecessor of this important Hindu god... |
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| Heracles' third-function sin involved the abduction of |
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| The Indic goddess of prosperity |
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| The color worn by priests in ancient Iran |
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| The Dioscuri and Asvins are both affiliated with |
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| A trifuntional deity of Vedic India |
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| Nymph-like, female figures in Indic tradition |
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| Queen of the Amazons whos belt Heracles was sent to fetch |
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| The general name denoting the third-function element of divine society in Vedic India |
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| Son of Zeus and Europa who becomes a Judge of the dead |
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| Indra's "triple enemy" excecuted by Trita Aptya |
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| According to Dumezil, Trita Aptya finds a counterpart in Roman... |
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| One of the old sea gods of the Greeks, he is a shape-shifter and has all knowledge |
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| Associated with Mitra, he sees that societies goods are rightly distributed... |
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| Sumakhas is to one of the "sons of Dyaus" as _________ is to one of the Dioscuri |
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| Husband of Aphrodite and brother of one of her lovers... |
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| Gods of the storm winds; Indra said they deserted him in his fight with the dragon |
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| Eurystheus sent Heracles to Crete to bring back the ______ of Minos. |
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| Each of these gods have a rodent affiliation: Rudra, Ganesa, Apollo, and ____________. |
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| A Brahmin wo castrates Indra with a curse... |
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| Old Norse thunder deity who is likely related to Indic Parjanya |
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| Actaeon was turned into a deer by |
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| Achilles hid among the daughters of the king Scyros, but was discovered by... |
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| After he killed the warrior Iphitus, Heracles became a slave to... |
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| The nymphs of the mountains are called |
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| This god was rescued from his mother's ashes |
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| The golden apples of Hesperides were stolen by |
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| The centaur killed by Heracles: |
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| The two-headed hound killed by Heracles |
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| A king who was killed by his own mother |
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| Hera transformed ________ into a bear |
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| The "twin" brother of Heracles |
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| The three-bodied giant whose cattle Heracles stole |
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| The three old women who control a person's destiny |
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| A swamp serpent killed by Heracles with the aid of Iolaus |
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| Wife of Tarquinius Collatinus who was violated by Sextus |
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| The ___________ Veda was named for the first fire priest |
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| Son of Hermes and Aphrodite |
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| These divine warrior are Rudra's sons and Indra's companions |
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| This Greek seer healed the daughters of Proetus of their madness |
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| Mortal woman who challenged Athena to a weaving contest |
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| After he ascends to Mt. Olympus, Heracles takes this goddess as his wife |
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| Indra killed this former enemy with the foam of a wave |
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| The probably Roman homologue (counterpart) of the former enemy killed by Indra |
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| Leader of the Greek Expedition to Troy; he sacraficed his daughter... |
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| Like Vivasvat, Ixion had intercourse with the ______ of a goddess |
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| The sister of Semele whom Hera prosecuted for taking care of young Dionysus. |
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| Indo-Aryan god representing the magical aspect of first function |
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| The Indo-Aryan god of the third function are called |
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| The earliest evidence of an Indo-Iranian language comes with... |
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| The birds that Heracles got rid of: |
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| The "three-stepping" Vedic god who creates and maintains space |
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| The victim of both the Asvamedha and the Equus October is chosen by a... |
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| Greek kentauros and sanskrit ___________are phoneticaly and semantically similar, but are not cognates |
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| Rod carried by the devotees of Bacchus |
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| The dioscuri and the asvins are both said to be sons of the... |
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| "Twin" brother of Heracles |
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| The offspring of Vivasvat and Savarna a new kind of creature in the world: |
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| This god was thrown off of Olympus and rescued by Thetis |
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| Satyr killed by apollo for losing a musical contest |
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| Poseidon is God of the sea, god of earthquakes and god of... |
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| These Greek "boys" alternate between being in the world of the dead and the world of the living |
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| Indra's great deed was the destruction of this cattle theiving, drought bringing monster |
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| Zeus prevented Arcas from spearing his mother, the bear, by turning them both into... |
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| Like Greek Apollo, thia god of India ia both healer and destroyer |
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| For killing poseidon's son, this god had to become the slave of a mortal |
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| According to Dumezil, this god is an Indic reflex of the triple sinning warrior: |
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| To steal the apples of Hesperides, the theif enlisted the aid of |
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| The third-function goddess who helped Indra (as Ops had helped Tullus Hostilius) |
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| To cause the winds to blow, agamemnon sacraficed __________, his daughter |
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| He is the fire within the waters and at least of Proto-Indo-Iranian origin |
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