Mythology A-Z

For each letter A-Z, guess these things related to mythology from various cultures around the world.

But mostly Greek, don't be a whiner

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	Hint	Answer
A	Greek goddess of beauty	Aphrodite
B	Wailing female spirt who heralded death in Irish mythology	Banshee
C	Creature that was half man / half horse	Centaur
D	Roman goddess of the hunt equated with the Greek goddess Artemis	Diana
E	A place in the afterlife for heroic and virtuous Greeks	Elysian Fields
F	Half man / half goat creature also known as a satyr	Faun
G	Clay monster of Jewish folklore	Golem
H	Type of weapon wielded by Thor	Hammer
I	Egyptian mother goddess who was later worshipped by the Romans	Isis
J	Roman god with two faces - one looking to the future and the other to the past	Janus
K	Sea beast of Norse folklore that resembles a giant squid	Kraken
L	Norse trickster god	Loki
M	Half man / half bull creature that lived at the center of the labyrinth	Minotaur
N	Greek goddess of victory; namesake of an apparel company	Nike
O	Mountain that was home to the Greek gods	Olympus
P	Trojan prince who killed Achilles with an arrow to the heel	Paris
Q	Feathered serpent of Aztec religion	Quetzalcoatl
R	This animal's foot has been a good-luck symbol since at least 600 B.C.	Rabbit
S	River that separates Hades and Earth	Styx
T	Creature, such as Cronus or Prometheus, that preceded the Greek gods	Titan
U	Roman version of Odysseus	Ulysses
V	Majestic hall in Asgard. When people die in battle, Odin chooses half of them to live here.	Valhalla
W	Dionysus was the Greek god of this	Wine
X	A long time ago, according to Scientology, this galactic overlord brought billions of people to Earth and killed them with atomic bombs	Xenu
Y	Massive tree that connects the nine worlds of Norse mythology	Yggdrasil
Z	King of the Greek gods	Zeus

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54 Comments

Level 76

Dec 8, 2018

Can you accept Xemu for Xenu?

Level 92

Dec 8, 2018

Zebu

+13

Level 76

Sep 9, 2019

Caribou?

Level 56

Dec 1, 2020

It should, yeah.

Level 76

Dec 8, 2018

45% getting Yggdrasil?! You have to be kidding me. Unless the answer type-in is set to ^Y[A-Z]+L

Level 92

Dec 8, 2018

This is what I came here to ponder. I know mythology never interested me and I bombed out in the percentile, but is it some gamer nerd thing the young whippersnappers know about these days. At least I recognize the other words, the ones that don't look like me an eye chart.

Level 68

Dec 9, 2018

Can confirm the current type-in is: ^YG+D[A-Z]+L, so it feels safe enough to say that it's probably not because of the type-in.

Level 74

Dec 10, 2018

There is a cooperative board game called Yggdrasil, some people may have got it from that

Level 31

Dec 19, 2018

I learned it from various video games, every now and then you will come across a game that mentions it, one of the more recent would be the latest god of war

Level 91

Jan 3, 2019

For those interested in Norse mythology it's pretty basic...

Level 68

Mar 18, 2019

It's even mentioned in a couple of Agatha Christie's novels.

Level 58

Jul 27, 2019

Yggdrasil is also mentioned in the Thor comic books, so that could be where a lot of people have heard of it.

Level 85

Nov 23, 2020

Yggdrasil features in all the Thor movies, although I learned about is initially by completing a Saturday prize cryptic crossword in The Guardian.

Level 85

Mar 3, 2021

Considering the popularity of the MCU franchise, I'm surprised the % is so low. My 9 year old daughter knows this word.

Level 57

Sep 6, 2024

I knew what it was I just couldn't remember the spelling, so I googled it.

Level 81

Dec 8, 2018

Nothing from the Slavic mythology, even we are the the largest ethno-linguistic group in Europe.

Level 72

Dec 9, 2018

This quiz needs a sequel, have at 'er :)

Level 68

Dec 10, 2018

He said NO WHINING, dammit! :-D

Level 80

Nov 17, 2023

Needs more Crnobog.

Level 73

Dec 19, 2023

Especially now, since The Witcher (heavily based on Slavic mythology) exposed people around the world to various characters from our culture

+10

Level 85

Dec 9, 2018

Can you also accept Elysium for Elysian Fields

Level 72

Dec 9, 2018

Dionysus was also the god of winos.

Level 68

Dec 10, 2018

Not to be confused with the god of whiners.

Level 62

Dec 9, 2018

I learned about Yggdrasil thanks to Saint Seiya.

Level 31

Jan 15, 2019

Strange to find Scientology reference here, next to ancient mythological figures. Why not then add Lord of the Rings or Pastafarism ?

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Level 56

Mar 8, 2019

I expect they just wanted something for "X"

Level 71

Nov 23, 2023

Or Christianity.

Level 79

Mar 18, 2019

very easy. Anyone else watching season 2 of American Gods?

Level 88

Mar 18, 2019

Will be soon. Probably after GOT ends.

Level 45

Mar 18, 2019

Well, if it's gonna be mostly greek mythology... Might as well make one full quizz for greek, and then others for other cultures ? And one with diverse sources ?

I wouldn't mind seeing something about slavic or polynesian mythology (since I know practically nothing of it)

(Also, the rabbit thing, is it really mythology ? I'd say it's just folklore... There's no story, character or anything associated with it, just a popular belief/tradition.)

Level 45

Mar 18, 2019

Could "valholl" (or valhöll but we're all lazy and don't use accents) be accepted as a type-in for valhalla ? It is the standard name in Old Norse and in modern Icelandic.

Yeah I know no one cares lol

Level 59

Mar 19, 2019

I had to spell Quetzalcoatl like 10 times to get it right

Level 24

Mar 19, 2019

I just googled Final Fantasy summons to get the spelling correct :) Was so determined I gave up over a minute of my time!

Level 64

Mar 19, 2019

If I failed to spell Quetzalcoatl correctly on the first try, my grandmother would hit me for dishonoring our mayan ancestors.

Level 76

Sep 9, 2019

Still got it wrong after 20 tries tried every variation i could think of. But always with two q's.. :/

Level 67

Nov 17, 2023

I got as far as "Quetzal" and was like it's probably wrong anyway. Had no chance of getting the whole thing!

Level 75

Mar 21, 2019

Wailing female spirIt who heralded death in Irish mythology

Level 49

Mar 31, 2019

"Don't be a whiner" - It's a valid point, though. You might as well name it European mythology, because that's what it really is for the most part. Could have included quite a lot more elements of Asian and African myths. Being culturally inclusive is both enlightening and balanced.

Level ∞

Apr 1, 2019

Don't think of pink elephants.... Proceeds to think of pink elephants.

Level 80

Feb 26, 2020

Fairly straight forward. Got everything but the rabbit one.

Level 66

Jun 14, 2020

Typo on the Irish Wailer - Spirt instead of Spirit?

Level 81

Oct 4, 2021

confirm, typo is still there

Level 46

Dec 17, 2020

Yea, well, who knows how to spell Quezalcoatl???!!!!

Level 37

Sep 9, 2022

Titans ARE gods, just a different generation of them. They didn't precede the gods, they preceded the OLYMPIAN gods.

Level 82

Nov 17, 2023

For Q I tried Quetzal but decided not to proceed with Quetzalcoatl although I knew it 🤦‍♂️

Level 66

Nov 17, 2023

Years of watching the Avengers and Clash of the Titans proving useful at last...

Level 66

Nov 18, 2023

Even when I Google it to check if I'm right - it backs me up. It's Elysium Fields. You need to add that in - I was sending myself nuts trying to figure out what else it could be.

Level 78

Nov 20, 2023

24, just missed Elysian and Yggdrasil. Reached level 67 so let's go

Level 78

Nov 20, 2023

I like how you have all these mythological creatures and figures and then you just have Rabbit 💀

Level 71

Nov 23, 2023

Lol - you think rabbits are real?

Level 69

Dec 10, 2024

Add Tiananmen Square

Level 22

Mar 19, 2025

A. I don't think a conspiracy religion should really be included

B. It can also be spelled Elysium

Level 75

Jun 11, 2025

There's no real criteria to distinguish religion and mythology, or valid from invalid religions, other than making up rules to justify what outcome you want. Are Joseph Smith's magic eyeglasses a mythological element? Ranks of seraphim and cherubim? Does anything other than the sliding scale of age and popularity distinguish the miracles of Jesus from the labors of Hercules? Many Maori believe the stories of their ancestors to be religiously true; but also as non-literal allegories that are mythology as well. Many Christians are also not literalists and understand its stories as allegorical mythology.

Does the fact that Scientology was created cynically, to further personal agendas and solidify personal position, disqualify it from being a religion? Or a mythology? I would say of course not. The precepts of Scientology were laid down by a human for their own reasons, just as the Council of Nicaea decided the nature of the Christian God for theirs.

Level 66

Jul 13, 2025

God I wish rabbits were real