Answers To: Gods, Goddesses,
And Glorious Legends

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
© Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
  1. C. Jupiter is known in Greek as Zeus.

  2. True. Although many are more familiar with the Aztecs' hero god, Quetzalcoatl.

  3. B. Ao is the masculine force, as well as the day and the sky; Po is the feminine force, along with the night and the earth.

  4. True. In return for wisdom, Odin plucked out his own eye, and threw it down Mimir's well.

  5. A, 2; B, 3; C, 1

  6. C. And when Angus Og begged Caer to be his bride on Samhain (Halloween), the god of love was transformed into a swan as well.

  7. True. The flood was so great it destroyed two worlds. We now live in the fifth world, safe from flooding, because Coyote gave Tieholtsodi's children back.

  8. A, 4; B, 1; C, 3; D, 2

  9. True. And when Izanagi washed his nose, Susanowo, the storm god, was born.

  10. C. Inti was a kind Incan deity, as was his wife, the moon.