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97 Cards in this Set
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Poetic Edda |
Older, principal, Aesir gods; theogony |
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Prose Edda |
Newer, vernacular; theogony |
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Snorri Sturluson |
Author/editor of both Eddas |
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Ginnungagap |
Beginning gap |
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Nifleheim |
land of fog and ice at the top of G-gap |
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Muspelheim |
Land of fire and sparks below the G-gap |
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Ellivigar |
Rivers, flow from Nifleheim |
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Ymir |
god, frost giant |
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Buri |
Son Ymir, came from Ymirs sweat |
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Bor |
Buris son |
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Odin, Villi, and Ve |
son of Bor, Killed ymir |
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Ask and Embla |
2 humans, bodies made from logs |
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Asgasrd |
Aesir |
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Vanaheim |
Land of the giants, on same level as Asgard, Freyr, Freya, and Loki |
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Midgard |
Land of humans and mortals |
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Helheim |
Land of the dead, ruled by Hel, Lokis daughter |
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Yggdrasil |
World Tree |
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Aesir |
Live in Asgard, ruled by Odin |
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Vanir |
Live in Vanaheim, elemental gods(giants) |
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Odin |
King of the Aesir, god of kings and warriors, controls the Valkyries, wolves, ravens bring him knowledge, greedy for info |
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Valkyries |
Female mythical warrior goddesses who collect fallen brave warrior, take them to Valhalla |
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Valhalla |
Inside Asgard, heaven for warriors, train warriors for Ragnarok |
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Grungir |
Odins spear, used it to hang himself from Yggdrasil through his eye |
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Sleipnir |
Odins horse, 8-legged, Loki is his father |
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Frigga |
Mother goddess, wife of Odin, Thor and Baldur |
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Thor |
God of thunder, god od common man |
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Mkollnir |
Thors Hammer |
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Freyr |
God of weather and fertility, twin brother of freya |
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Freya |
Love, Fertility, female sexuality, feathered coat allowed her to fly |
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Amber |
Freyas tears |
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loki |
Trickster, god of mischief |
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loki's 4 children |
Sleipnir Hel Fenrir-wolf Jurmangand |
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Baldur |
Nemesis of Loki's, god of goodness and light, Loki killed him |
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Tyr |
God of justice |
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Heimdall |
gatekeeper of asgard, controls bifrost, could see and hear all 9 worlds, possibly created humanity |
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Bifrost |
Rainbow highway |
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Ragnarok |
Cataclysmic battle for the end of the world |
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The 5 largest Hawaiian islands |
Hawai'i Maui Oahu Molokai |
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Heiau |
Gathering place/temple
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Kahuna nui
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Ancestral line of leaders/rulers in Hawaii
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Pili |
Father of the kahuna line |
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Poi |
Staple food of the Hawaiian islands |
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N'akua and honua |
Gods, mortals |
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Tiki |
First humans
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Rangi and Papa
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First 2 gods, sky and earth
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Luau
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Celebration for god of earthquakes |
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Kane |
separated Rangi and Papa, god of the forests |
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Hunamoku |
Kings |
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Lono |
God of agriculture |
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Ku
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God of war |
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Kaikilani |
Goddess married to lono, rainy season festival dedicated to her. |
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Makahiki Festival |
Dedicated to Kaikilani |
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Laka |
Lono's 2nd wife, goddess of fertility, invented hula |
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Apuhau |
Storm goddess |
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Kanaloa |
Sea god, made children with haumea |
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Haumea |
Goddess of larger fertility |
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Maui |
God of the common man, tried to gain immortality for humanity, fished up the islands from sea floor |
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Hina |
Goddess of the moon |
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Tetuna |
Eel god, coconut palms created by him |
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Puenui |
God of owls, in love with hina |
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Menehune |
Elves fed on by owls |
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Pele |
Goddess of volcanoes |
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Mount Kilauea |
Axis Mundi |
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Opelu |
God of doctors, healing |
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Kamapua'a |
Warrior god, married Pele |
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Kamoho |
Shark god, hid Pele to avoid Kamapua'a |
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Kahoali |
God of witchcraft and witch docotrs |
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Milu |
God of the dead |
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Zaddik |
Jewish holyman believed to have a direct line to God |
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Torah |
Oral and written laws given by god to Abraham, 5 books=OT |
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Yahweh |
Hebrew name for God |
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The western wall |
Axis mundi, jerusalem |
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Tanakh |
Hebrew Bible, contains Torah and history of Judaism |
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Mezuzah |
Case affixed to doorways with religious texts |
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Chai |
Symbol that represents "life" and "living", appreciated life |
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Rabbi |
Teacher; can head a synagogue |
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Synagogue |
Community gathering place for Jews, doesnt requiere rabbi |
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Canaan |
Hebrew term for the promised land, promised to Abraham by Yahweh, Israel |
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Constantine I |
Legalized christianity in 313 AD in Rome |
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The trinity |
God the father, the son, and the holy spirit |
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Eucharist |
Communion, symbolic breaking bread and wine symbolizing Jesus' sacrifice |
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Catholic |
Means "Universal" in latin |
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Pope |
leader of the catholic church, seated in the Vatican in Rome
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Icthus |
Jesus fish |
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Alpha and Omega |
Beginning and end |
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Apocrypha |
Hidden books of the Bible, authorized between the OT an NT |
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Baptism |
Symbolic washing away of sin, Jesus was babtised at 31 |
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Xristos |
"Anointed one" in Greek |
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Medina |
Mohammed's birthplace, Saudi Arabia |
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Muezzin |
Muslim holy man who calls faithful to prayer, minaret |
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Ka'ba |
enclosure holding meteorite that was given the Abraham |
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Allah |
Arabic word of muslim God, means "The god" |
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Mecca |
Axis mundi, Ka'ba located here, pilmigrage(hajj) |
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The five pillars of Islam |
Confession of faith, ritual prayer, alms taxes, fasting, pilmigrage |
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3 major denominations of christianity |
Catholicism, Protestantism, orthodoxy |
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3 Major Sects of Islam |
Sunni Shi'a Sufi'sm |
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4 Major Sects of Judaism |
Orthodox Hasidic Reform Conservative Frum |
