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paleolithic

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paleo = old + lithic = stone; paintings of animals attributing spirit to them and Venus figurines

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mesolithic

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meso = middle + lithic = stone; fishing with nets and harpoons and use of caves but no agriculture or animal husbandry

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neolithic

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neo = new + lithic = stone; farming (especially in Fertile Crescent), ice age in Middle East stopped allowing for usage of wheat, goats, and cattle

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Jericho

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first town and had stone towers to protect its goods

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Catalhoyuk

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town with a cattle shrine

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animism

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belief that animals and objects in general contain spirits

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Venus figurines

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carvings with emphasized reproductive parts that were thought to represent great goddesses

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Great Goddess

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major divinity (even more so than gods) representing fertility

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anthropomorphic

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of the shape of a human

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gynomorphic

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shaped after women’s anatomy (e.g. gynomorphic tombs)

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bucrania

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carvings of sacred cows

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theriomorphic

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in the form of animals (e.g. theriomorphic gods)

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partheogenetic

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describing a virgin birth, like that of Day and Aether from Night

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variant

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alternate version of a myth

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syncretism

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combining of religions, cultures, or schools of thought

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etiological myth

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explains the cause of something (pre-science)

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eponymous ancestor / eponym

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named after

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patryonomic suffix

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-id / -ids / -ides = son of / daughter of / child or children of

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cuneiform

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way of writing by pressing into stone

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Linear A

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Minoan hieroglyphs, which haven’t been deciphered

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Linear B

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Mycenaean hieroglyphs, which have been deciphered

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mythopoeic

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myth-making (e.g. mythopoeic mechanism)

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Achaeans

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name for Greeks used in Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey

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Theogony

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birth of gods

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Muses
goddesses of art and Hesiod's inspiration; Hesiod invokes them at the beginning of the Theogony
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Graces
Hesiod invokes three Graces (goddesses of grace and beauty) at the beginning of the Theogony
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Chaos
nothingness; Hesiod believed the universe began as Chaos; one of the first primordial divinities
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Gaia
Earth; one of the first primordial divinities
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Tartarus
Gaia's lover who causes her to birth Eros; deep abyss that is used to torture the Titans; one of the first primordial divinities
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Eros
love; adolescent with wings (a cupid); one of the first primordial divinities
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cupid
character that represents mirth and joy
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Aether
brightness
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Ouranos
Sky; first ruler of the gods before being defeated by son Kronos
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Titans
Ocean(us), Tethys, Mnemosyne, Kronos (Saturn), Rhea, and Themis
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Cyclopes
one-eyed monster
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100-handeds
many-headed and many-armed monster
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Aphrodite
goddess of love born out of the testicles of Ouranos
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Erinyes (Furies)
birthed by Gaia after the blood from Ouranos' castration falls onto her; goddesses of blood vengeance
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Pontus
Sea
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3 Fates (Moirai)
Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos; proscribe the life of a human
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Clotho
spins thread of life
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Lachesis
measures thread of life and determines length
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Atropos
cuts thread of life
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Hesperides
guard sacred apples of the magic tree in the Garden of Hesperides
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Ate
blindness/folly; represents period of time between committing a crime and being punished where you don't think you'll get caught but you're really just being blind
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Nemesis
vengeance; made to afflict mortal men
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Nereids
children of Nereus, son of Gaia
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Oceanids
3000 of which are birthed from the Titans Ocean and Tethys
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Ceto
son of Gaia and sea god from whom Cetus (sea monster killed by Perseus) is derived
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Iris
messenger god and rainbow during the flood
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Ladon
serpent that guards the magic tree with the Hesperides
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Typhoeus (Typhaon)
sea monster that does battle with Zeus and is defeated
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Helios
sun
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Selene
moon
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Eos
dawn, aurora
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Boreas
North wind
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Zephyr
West wind
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Styx
river of underworld
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Nike
victory; flies over victor's head and crowns them
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Mt. Dikte
cave where Zeus is born
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Titanomachy
battle between Zeus and his army and the Titans
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omphalos
stone at Delphi that is thought to have been placed by Zeus after he had his father Kronos vomit out his children, including the stone decoy, to celebrate victory
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Delphi
originally a sanctuary for great earth goddess and is associated with rocks that are thrown to recreate humanity in the flood myth
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Parnassus
mountain with cliffs between which Delphi is flanked; ancients might've viewed cliffs as gynomorphic features
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Castalian Spring
at Delphi, the stream in the cleft flows from this spring, which is sacred to the Muses
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Ishtar
Sumerian goddess of love and war who has several "aspects" (e.g. fertility aspect, war aspect, etc.)
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Shamash
Sumerian sun god who cuts through mountains, as doing so is important for sun to reach crops
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Ba'al
major divinity of Phoenicians and Ugarits; has a temple dedicated to him called temple of Ba'al
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Anu
Sumerian god of sky
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Tiamat
Babylonian goddess of mist and sea in Enuma Elish who bore several other divinities; when one of the children kills their father, she becomes enraged and creates monsters to attack child's son Marduk, but she is defeated by him
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Marduk
son of Ea (the child of Tiamat's who kills his father); defeated Tiamat; chief god of Babylon
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Teshub
weather god in the Kumarbi myth; one of the gods that Kumarbi is impregnated with after killing Anu
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Marija Gimbutas
archaeologist and anthropologist who developed the Kurgan hypothesis, proposing that the Pontic Steppe is the region where Proto-Indo-European was spoken and later developed into separate languages
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George Smith
expert translator of Assyrian cuneiform tablets and also discovered many new tablets; translated tablet telling flood story
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Sir James G. Frazer
realized that Genesis must be written by two different people because of its many contradictions in the telling of creation; pioneer of comparative mythology
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Iapetos
Titan who produces sons Prometheus and Epimetheus
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Prometheus
god who creates men, teaches them to be "tricksters" (e.g. saving good meat for themselves and giving leftovers as sacrifice to the gods), and steals fire to bring to them; name means forethought
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Epimetheus
accepts the gift of Pandora from Zeus, though Prometheus told the men not to accept Zeus' gifts; name means afterthought
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Atlas
brother of Zeus who challenges him to battle and is punished by having to hold the sky for eternity
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Pandora
first woman; created by Zeus to punish men for their tricks as she held a jar of all the world's evils
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Deucalion
male survivor in Ovid's telling of the flood; Pyrrha's husband
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Pyrrha
female survivor in Ovid's telling of the flood; Deucalion's wife
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Mt. Parnassus
Deucalion and Pyrrha survive on a boat landing on Mt. Parnassus during the flood
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Hellen
Deucalion and Pyrrha throw stones which metamorphize into humans, the first one being named Hellen, which is "explaining" for why the Greeks are called Hellenes
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Ion
second born man after flood
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Shem
one of Noah's sons who replenishes the human population
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Ham
one of Noah's sons who replenishes the human population

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