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