M-Greek Mythology Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. goddess or personified spirit, often portrayed as the diamond of the strife of war.
- 5. goddess of virgin hearth, sacrificial flame,first born child of Kronos
- 7. God of Oracles/music,he healed,created poetry
- 10. God of the sea, earthquakes, floods and drought,
- 12. Goddess of wisdom,defense of towns,wears long robe,armed with shield and spear
- 14. source of devastating storms,poet described him as volcano-giant, said to be huge that his head touched the stars, was defeated by zeus.
- 15. god of the sky, had 12 sons and 6 daughter with his wife Gaea, Gaea goddess of the earth
- 18. lures sailors to death with a bewitching song, secretly abducted by hades,portrayed as bodies of birds and women's heads
- 20. spirit of sharp gust of winds, half woman half bird, sent by zeus for revealing the secrets of the gods
- 21. God of travel,hospitality,personal messenger of zeus,guides dead who lead souls to the underworld
- 24. Love, beauty and pleasure,attribute doves,apple and mirror
Down
- 1. God of hunting in wilderness,goddess of childbirth,twin brother Apollon,targeted girls
- 3. God of fire/craftsmen,rides donkey's,holds hammer and tongs
- 4. King of the gods,god of the sky, weather, law and order.
- 6. Goddess queen of sea , wife of Poseidon , female personification of the sea
- 8. child-devouring sea monster, preyed on children, zeus transformed her into a monster to devour children of others, often described as the boogeyman
- 9. three powerful winged daimons medusa, Euryale, Sthenno, medusa were the only mortals. Their form was snake hair, wings and a tusk.
- 11. God of shepherds and hunters, he was a man with horns , legs and tail of a goat.
- 13. female spirits of the natural world, goddess of rivers, springs, meadows and mountains.
- 16. Goddess of night, emerged as dawn the creation, spawned a brood of dark spirits
- 17. Queen of gods,goddess of marriage,accompanied by lion,cuckoo or hawk
- 19. Fish-tailed sea-god, also described as god of Tritonis, son and herald of Poseidon
- 22. represented the corruptions of earth, slime, fetid water,illness and disease.
- 23. God of war,battlelust,was mature,god of courage
- 25. God of the underworld, the wealthy one, son of Cronus and Rhea, keeper of souls