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14 Cards in this Set
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Adonis (Greek)
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Detained by a goddess in love with him, chooses hunting for boar over her love, gets killed by the boar
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Amaterasu (Shinto)
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Before birth her father lost headdress while running away from mother, turned to bunch of grapes, shrine torn down every 20 years and rebuilt, expelled brother from sight after he kills deity of food, swallowed pieces of brother’s sword to give birth
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Apollo (Greek)
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Princess Marpess chose mortal Idas over him, sired Linos with Krotopos’s daughter, Psamathe, exchanged cattle for first lyre, gave Hermes caduceus for syrinx, involved in musical contests with son Cinyras and satyrs Marsyas and god Pan
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Atalanta (Greek)
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Alleged she had affair with Ares resulted in birth of Parthenopaeus, and centaurs Hylaeus and Rhaecus tried to rape her, father Iasus abandoned her because he wanted boy, she-bear was sent so she could suckle, face was “too boyish for a girl, but too girlish for a boy,” fortune said marriage would be her ruin, Toxeus and Plexippus killed over a gift to her by their nephew
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Athena (Greek)
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One encounter she had with Hephaestus resulted in birth by Gaia of Erichthonius, suggested that Heracles skin Nemean Lion with its own claws, gained epithet “Areia” while serving as judge at trial of Orestes, daughter of Metis
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Bifrost (Norse)
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In Gylfaginning section of Prose Edda, Harr explains this will be destroyed by sons of Muspell, a.k.a. Asbru
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Cadmus (Greek)
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Son of Agenor, with help of Athena he killed a dragon and sowed its teeth, one of his daughters immolated while pregnant with Dionysus after having affair with Zeus, another of Autonoe saw her son Actaeon die after he witnessed Artemis naked, brother of Cilix and Phineusb abdicated throne to his grandson Pentheus and fled to Ilyria
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Charon (Greek)
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Son of Erebus and Nix, Psyche, Aeneas, Orpheus all had to interact with him, first character that Dante meets in hell, depicted in art as old man or demon carrying a double hammer, it was Acheron not Styx on which he operated
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Cronos/Cronus (Greek)
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Father of Chiron the centaur, Roman counterpart was father of Picus, overthrew his father Uranus
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Cyclops (Greek)
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Arges, Brontes, and Steropes were original three types, most famous was Polyphemus blinded by Odysseus
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Daedalus (Greek)
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According to Pausanias, statue of Britomartis in temple of Olous made by him, in Iliad Homer calls him the creator of a wide dancing-ground, son of Metion, after arriving in Sicily, he built a temple to Apollo and was taken in by King Cocalus
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Danae (Greek)
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Daughter of King Acrisius and Eurydice, often credited as founder of city of Ardea, more famous for her role as a mother, locked away in a bronze tower so as to remain childless
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Dionysus (Greek)
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After losing contest him Heracles briefly joined Thiasus his retinue, some stories claim he was son of Persephone and that, at Hera’s bidding, Titans ate all of him but his heart, which Zeus put in womb of his better-known mother, sometimes said to be father of the Graces with Aphrodite, fathered Oenopion with Ariadne, good and gentle to those who honored him, brought madness and destruction upon those who spurned him or the questionable rituals of his cult
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Elysium (Greek)
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According to Homer breezes of Zephyrus always fan here on banks of Oceanus, while Hesiod places it in Isles of the Blessed, also Land of Orchards or White Island, Arion tells his lyre he will join those here who have passed the darkling flood
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