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  1. 4. the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, strategic warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, and skill. That’s a lot right? She was born out of the head of her father Zeus and she is the patron goddess of Athens.. and is often seen with an owl.
  2. 7. the Egyptian sun god. He has the head of a falcon like the god Horus, but you can tell the difference between them because he has a sun over his head. He brought all creatures into existence by speaking their secret names and humans were born of his tears and sweat.
  3. 8. the name of a famous grunge band in the 1990s is also the word for the goal of the Buddhist path, when you attain freedom from the three poisons of greed, hate and ignorance and extinguish everything that binds you to the cycle of rebirth and suffering.
  4. 9. the demigod who was dipped into the river of the underworld by his mother so that he would be an immortal but she left his heel where she held him dry and that was his downfall.
  5. 10. this Norse and Germanic god of thunder lightning and storms is famous for wielding his hammer and he is also the hero in a Marvel comic franchise.
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  1. 1. the word ....... is used in Hinduism when a god is incarnated or appears in an earthly form. For example when the god Vishnu appeared on earth he sometimes appeared as Krishna who like Vishnu is often shown as a blue man in paintings. This may be why a well known sci-fi film titled ...... had blue creatures in it.
  2. 2. the Greeks had Pegasus. The Chinese had Chollima. The Valkyrie rode winged horses from Asgard to pick souls dead in battle. And Muslims have Al.....
  3. 3. the river that the dead in Greek myth cross to get to the underworld. The ferryman Charon takes a coin for the crossing so people were buried with a coin for the payment.
  4. 5. She fought for an honorable burial for one of her brothers in this classic Greek drama. Her name means worthy or in place of one’s parents.
  5. 6. God of war and a blood red planet is named after him