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Myth And Religion Test 2
From Zeus and Europa up until but not including the Mahabharata
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
11/10/2010

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Callisto was what kind of nymph?
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Dryad
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One of the three fates -- the one who spins the thread:
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Clotho
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Heracles was dressed as a woman while he served as the slave of...
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Omphale
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A nymph of springs and other flowing waters is called a...
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Naiad
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A Thracian earth goddess in origin; the Greeks identified her as the mother of Dionysus...
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Semele
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Wife of Heracles; sister of Meleager; tricked by Nessus
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Deianira
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Daughter of Zeus and Demeter who was abducted by Hades...
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Persephone
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Daughter of Agenor whom Zeus abducted in bull-form..
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Europa
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Apollo's epithet (title) that is derived from the Greek word for mouse:
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Smintheus
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The mother of Heracles
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Alcmena
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Paris judged a beauty contest between Hera, Aphrodite, and ...
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Athena
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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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Shield of Achilles
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The three headed hound of Hades:
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Cerberus
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Heracles used this monster's blood to poison his arrows
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Lernaean Hydra
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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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Subura
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The Asvamedha makes clear that the Eqqus October is a sacrifice made on behalf of the...
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King
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Young Hermes stole cattle from...
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Apollo
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Vedic god who represents the legal aspect of the first function:
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Mitra
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The elite warrior group of Mitanni:
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Maryanni
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The triple sinning warrior in ancient India
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Indra
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Indo-Aryan god who shares several characteristics with Greek Hermes
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Pusan
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A Thracian king who persecuted Dionysus and died hated by all the gods
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Lycurgus
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Ixion's offspring by the cloud-clone
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Centaurus
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Artemis is affiliated with both the hunt and with:
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Childbirth
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Like Indra, this Roman warrior was saved by the intervention of three third-function deities:
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Tullus Hostillus
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The Indo-Aryan rain god finds a cognate deity in Lithuanian....
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Perkunas
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Heracles cleaned out the stables of
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Augeas
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Marsyas was one of those creatures called a ...
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Satyr
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Meleager chose to give the boar's hide to this woman warrior...
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Atalanta
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Rudra is the predecessor of this important Hindu god...
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Siva
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Heracles' third-function sin involved the abduction of
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Iole
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The Indic goddess of prosperity
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Sri
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The color worn by priests in ancient Iran
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White
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The Dioscuri and Asvins are both affiliated with
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Mariners
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A trifuntional deity of Vedic India
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Agni
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Nymph-like, female figures in Indic tradition
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Apsaras
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Queen of the Amazons whos belt Heracles was sent to fetch
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Hippolyta
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The general name denoting the third-function element of divine society in Vedic India
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Vasus
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Son of Zeus and Europa who becomes a Judge of the dead
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Rhadamanthys
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Indra's "triple enemy" excecuted by Trita Aptya
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Trisiras
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According to Dumezil, Trita Aptya finds a counterpart in Roman...
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Horatius
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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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Proteus
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Associated with Mitra, he sees that societies goods are rightly distributed...
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Bhaga
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Sumakhas is to one of the "sons of Dyaus" as _________ is to one of the Dioscuri
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Tyndareus
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Husband of Aphrodite and brother of one of her lovers...
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Hephaestus
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Gods of the storm winds; Indra said they deserted him in his fight with the dragon
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Maruts
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Eurystheus sent Heracles to Crete to bring back the ______ of Minos.
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Bull
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Each of these gods have a rodent affiliation: Rudra, Ganesa, Apollo, and ____________.
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Asclepius
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A Brahmin wo castrates Indra with a curse...
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Gautama
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Old Norse thunder deity who is likely related to Indic Parjanya
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Fjorgyn
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Actaeon was turned into a deer by
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Artemis
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Achilles hid among the daughters of the king Scyros, but was discovered by...
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Odysseus
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After he killed the warrior Iphitus, Heracles became a slave to...
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Omphate
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The nymphs of the mountains are called
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Oreads
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This god was rescued from his mother's ashes
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Dionysus
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The golden apples of Hesperides were stolen by
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Heracles
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The centaur killed by Heracles:
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Nessus
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The two-headed hound killed by Heracles
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Orthus
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A king who was killed by his own mother
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Pentheus
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Hera transformed ________ into a bear
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callisto
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The "twin"  brother of Heracles
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Iphicles
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The three-bodied giant whose cattle Heracles stole
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Geryon
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The three old women who control a person's destiny
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The Fates
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A swamp serpent killed by Heracles with the aid of Iolaus
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Lernaean
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Wife of Tarquinius Collatinus who was violated by Sextus
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Lucretia
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The ___________ Veda was named for the first fire priest
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Atharva
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Son of Hermes and Aphrodite
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Hermaphroditus
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These divine warrior are Rudra's sons and Indra's companions
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Martus
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This Greek seer healed the daughters of Proetus of their madness
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Melampus
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Mortal woman who challenged Athena to a weaving contest
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Arachne
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After he ascends to Mt. Olympus, Heracles takes this goddess as his wife
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Hebe
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Indra killed this former enemy with the foam of a wave
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Namuci
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The probably Roman homologue (counterpart) of the former enemy killed by Indra
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Mettius Fuffetius
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Leader of the Greek Expedition to Troy; he sacraficed his daughter...
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Agamemnon
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Like Vivasvat, Ixion had intercourse with the ______ of a goddess
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clone
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The sister of Semele whom Hera prosecuted for taking care of young Dionysus.
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Ino
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Indo-Aryan god representing the magical aspect of first function
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Varuna
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The Indo-Aryan god of the third function are called
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Vasus
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The earliest evidence of an Indo-Iranian language comes with...
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Mitanni
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The birds that Heracles got rid of:
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Stymphaliah
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The "three-stepping" Vedic god who creates and maintains space
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Visnu
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The victim of both the Asvamedha and the Equus October is chosen by a...
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Chariot Race
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Greek kentauros and sanskrit ___________are phoneticaly and semantically similar, but are not cognates
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Gandharvas
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Rod carried by the devotees of Bacchus
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Thyrusu
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The dioscuri and the asvins are both said to be sons of the...
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Sky god
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"Twin" brother of Heracles
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Iphicles
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The offspring of Vivasvat and Savarna a new kind of creature in the world:
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Manu
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This god was thrown off of Olympus and rescued by Thetis
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Nephaestus
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Satyr killed by apollo for losing a musical contest
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Marsyas
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Poseidon is God of the sea, god of earthquakes and god of...
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Horses
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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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Dioscuri
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Indra's great deed was the destruction of this cattle theiving, drought bringing monster
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Vrtra
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Zeus prevented Arcas from spearing his mother, the bear, by turning them both into...
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Constellations
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Like Greek Apollo, thia god of India ia both healer and destroyer
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Rudra
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For killing poseidon's son, this god had to become the slave of a mortal
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Ares
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According to Dumezil, this god is an Indic reflex of the triple sinning warrior:
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Indra
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To steal the apples of Hesperides, the theif enlisted the aid of
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Atlas
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The third-function goddess who helped Indra (as Ops had helped Tullus Hostilius)
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Sarasavati
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To cause the winds to blow, agamemnon sacraficed __________, his daughter
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Iphigenia
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He is the fire within the waters and at least of Proto-Indo-Iranian origin
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Apam Napat
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