Mythology Crossword

4. Myths were part of an _____ tradition, meaning they were passed from one generation to another by telling them out loud as stories.
6. The titan who Greeks believed carried the heavens on his shoulders
11. After dying in battle, human warriors were taken to _______ by warrior women called Valkyries.
12. The Egyptian god of war, with a falcon head
14. The titan who stole fire from the gods, and gifted it to humans
15. Other cultures, including the Arapaho of North America as well as civilizations in Egypt and Japan, thought of humans as descendants of a _____ god.
16. The mountain Greeks believed their gods lived on, Mount _______
18. What the Greeks believed Pandora opened to release evil into the world
19. The Norse god of Mischief
20. Ancient people saw sickness, ________, and natural disasters, but they did not understand what caused them.

1. Myths are ________ about how the world was created and why certain things happen
2. The Greek messenger god
3. a myth of the Polynesian people tells that the god _____ formed the world out of water and darkness.
5. The society who borrowed much of the Greeks mythology
7. The being that people from India believe Men and Women came from
8. The Egyptian chief of the gods
9. Myths tell of ______, heroes, and events that a group believes, or at one time believed, to be real.
10. A cultures myths are often closely tied to its ________
13. The Norse god of Thunder
17. the Roman god of the underworld