God quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which Greek messenger god is known for wearing sandals with wings?

   Answer: Hermes

   Why: In Homer's Odyssey his golden, immortal sandals carry him over sea and land as fast as the blasts of the wind; Rome called them talaria.

2. 2 Medium

   How did the Greek god Prometheus provide fire to humans?

   Answer: Hiding it in a fennel stalk

   Why: Hesiod's word is narthex, the giant fennel, whose dry pith smoulders so slowly that Greek villagers still carried fire in it in the 1800s.

3. 3 Hard

   Why did the Aztec god Xipe Totec flay his own skin?

   Answer: To provide food for humans

   Why: Specialists read the flaying as the maize seed shedding its hull to germinate, and his spring festival was named for the act itself.

4. 4 Easy

   In Roman mythology, who is considered the king of the gods?

   Answer: Jupiter

   Why: Rome hailed him as Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Best and Greatest, and shared his temple on the Capitoline Hill with Juno and Minerva.

5. 5 Medium

   Why did the Japanese goddess Amaterasu hide in a cave?

   Answer: Her brother behaved badly

   Why: Susanoo broke the paddy ridges, fouled the harvest hall and flung a flayed colt through the roof of the weaving house, killing a maiden inside.

6. 6 Hard

   What unusual animals pull the chariot of the Norse goddess Freyja?

   Answer: Two large cats

   Why: Snorri's Edda even sends Freyja and her cats to Baldr's funeral, where Freyr arrives in a chariot drawn by the golden boar Gullinbursti.