Stats: Mythology (Hard Version)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This figure tossed stars from a bag, forming the Milky Way.	Coyote	75%
This figure threw a whetstone into the air, causing nine other slaves to slaughter each other.	Odin	75%
This figure's (also the king of Kosala) brother placed his sandals on his throne.	Rama	75%
This figure is the only god in his pantheon not associated with a known animal; instead, that hybrid creature is referred to as the sha animal.	Set	75%
This playwright was apparently present at the Battle of Marathon, which inspired one of his plays.	Aeschylus	50%
This figure captures a leopard Osebo with teeth like knives.	Anansi	50%
This figure branded and flayed his uncle, which is what gives the leopard its spots.	Anubis	50%
This figure, born near Cythera, is sometimes replaced by the Charity goddess Aglaea.	Aphrodite	50%
This figure flayed Marsyas for the audacity to challenge him to a contest.	Apollo	50%
This figure followed a cow until it collapsed of exhaustion, where he founded a city.	Cadmus	50%
This figure trained with a warrior woman from the Isle of Skye.	Cu Chulainn	50%
This figure threw his nephew off a tower for inventing the saw.	Daedalus	50%
This figure exchanged armor with Glaucus after finding out Oeneus of Calydon and Bellerophon were friends.	Diomedes	50%
In Orphic traditions, this figure's predecessor was dismembered by the Titans before being reborn as this figure.	Dionysus	50%
This goddess cries tears of red-gold for her wandering husband.	Freya	50%
This figure ripped open his chest to prove a couple were always in his heart.	Hanuman	50%
This figure turned Galanthis into a weasel for distracting the childbirth goddess Eileithyia.	Hera	50%
This figure was nearly sacrificed by a king in Egypt, but broke the chains.	Heracles	50%
This figure was inflicted with sixty diseases and rescued by kurgarra and galatura.	Ishtar	50%
This figure's Roman cult celebrated her "Navigium" aspect.	Isis	50%
A mother rakes a river for pieces of her son and attempts to revive him with honey in this work.	Kalevala	50%
This figure was switched at birth to avoid being killed by Kamsa.	Krishna	50%
This figure was caught as a salmon, which is why salmon tails are slender.	Loki	50%
In this work, a deity protects a woman from public disrobement by causing her robes to grow longer and longer, becoming endless.	Mahabharata	50%
This figure caused the constellations to disappear and reappear before battling a primordial sea goddess.	Marduk	50%
This figure stole fire from the fingernails of a goddess.	Maui	50%
This figure battles a mortal enemy, sometimes in the form of a cat with a knife called "Mau."	Ra	50%
This figure's first wife immolated herself, naming a practice in real life.	Shiva	50%
This figure left some of his buttocks in the underworld when he was rescued.	Theseus	50%
This figure specifically wades through the Kormt and Ormt rivers each day to reach his seat.	Thor	50%
This figure was forced to undergo a sex-change after hitting a pair of mating snakes.	Tiresias	50%
This figure guided King Manu as a giant fish. (Sorry, couldn't find a better clue for this)	Vishnu	50%
A woman and her husband from this general region invented a game of "badger-in-a-bag."	Wales	50%
A ritual to this figure on Mount Lykaion may have involved human sacrifice to a wolf aspect of him.	Zeus	50%
This figure was disguised as Pyrrha until discovered by a fellow Achaean.	Achilles	25%
This figure's death caused the blooming of anemone flowers.	Adonis	25%
This figure was enraged seeing an enemy wearing the belt of a slain youth.	Aeneas	25%
This figure was presented with a sword as an apology for a god's earlier rampage.	Amaterasu	25%
This figure was tried on the Aeropagus for the killing of Poseidon's son.	Ares	25%
This figure quarreled with a god over the slaughter of a boar, which resulted in him being granted the god's personal weapon.	Arjuna	25%
This figure went to Nemesis to drive the huntress Aura insane.	Artemis	25%
This figure was the more famous parent of the Seven-Against-Thebes member Parthenopaeus.	Atalanta	25%
This figure is avenged by a son of Rindr who ages in one day.	Baldr	25%
This figure threw Stheneboea into the ocean as revenge for her treachery.	Bellerophon	25%
This figure turned Picus, a king of Latium, into a woodpecker for refusing her advances and choosing Pomona instead.	Circe	25%
This figure had relations with Iasion, who in some tales was struck by lightning for the act.	Demeter	25%
This figure's servant Skirnir traded his magic sword for his wife, which would force him to fight with an antler later.	Freyr	25%
This figure's belly burst open after he ate too many modak sweets.	Ganesha	25%
This figure wept until a maggot dropped out of a corpse's nose.	Gilgamesh	25%
This figure sired a fire-breathing monster named Cacus whom Heracles killed after a cattle raid.	Hephaestus	25%
This figure fathers a boy who was merged with the Naiad Salmacis.	Hermes	25%
This author described the five ages of man in one work, I suppose.	Hesiod	25%
This figure was depicted by the Greeks as a "Lord of Silence," a child with his finger to his lips.	Horus	25%
This figure threw his nephew Copil's heart into Lake Texcoco.	Huitzilopotchli	25%
This figure kills a massive serpent demon at twilight using a column of sea foam.	Indra	25%
The Book of Invasions details how this place was settled my Milesians and Partholon.	Ireland	25%
This figure created boiling hot springs to defend against Titus Tatius.	Janus	25%
This figure founded Ljubljana and mated with Queen Hypsipyle to produce twin sons.	Jason	25%
This figure unintentionally slew his friend Accolon due to the machinations of an enchantress.	King Arthur	25%
This figure attempted to poison Theseus, but was stopped when her husband recognized his sword and sandals.	Medea	25%
This figure's ploy of madness by sowing his fields with salt was exposed by his son and Palamedes.	Odysseus	25%
This figure's head sang as it floated down a river though his body had already been torn apart.	Orpheus	25%
This figure's coffin was holding up a palace in Byblos.	Osiris	25%
This figure was cursed by Myrtilus after betraying him, beginning the curse on the House of Atreus.	Pelops	25%
This figure was the younger of two deities worshipped at a kykeon drinking ritual.	Persephone	25%
This figure traded the kingdom of Argos with Megapenthes for the kingdom of Tiryns.	Perseus	25%
This figure's stone axes are analogized to Thor's Mjolnir as depicted on the Kvinneby amulet.	Perun	25%
This figure crushed the giant Polybotes with a mountain.	Poseidon	25%
This figure followed a red ant into a mountain to discover sustenance for mankind.	Quetzalcoatl	25%
During this general event, a figure takes nine steps before dying from venom.	Ragnarok	25%
This figure killed the shepherd Faustulus in a disagreement with his brother.	Romulus	25%
This figure rescues a maiden asleep within a wall of shields.	Sigurd	25%
This figure lost his foot fighting a primordial crocodile.	Tezcatlipoca	25%
This place was invaded twice by the Epigoni, unsuccessfully the first time and successfully the second time.	Thebes	25%
This figure gifted a goddess seven scorpions to defend her and her son.	Thoth	25%
This figure was often depicted with googly eyes and fangs in worship.	Tlaloc	25%
This figure invented the kantele from the bones of a giant pike fish.	Vainamoinen	25%
This "place" has a name derived from a kenning meaning "horse of the hanged" along with a figure associated with that action here.	Yggdrasil	25%

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