CLT 3378 Final Exam Questions and
Answers
Aillil - Answer-Husband of Medb
Anansi - Answer--Also called Kwaku Anansi
-Anansi = spider
-Liminal figure
-Friends with gods, sometimes called
"Great Spider"
-Kwaku - human name
-Has a human life
-Becomes "Miss Nancy" in the Americas
-Trickster and culture hero
Ant - Answer-In the Kiowa story of how death came into the world
Asgard - Answer-Home of the Norse gods
Baduasemanpensa - Answer-Nyambe's daughter that Anansi tries to win in marriage by
playing the drums
Baldr - Answer-Son of Odin and Frigg, killed by Loki with mistletoe, comes back after
Ragnarok
Beowulf - Answer--Geat
-Son of Ecgtheow
-Nephew of Hygelac (king
of Geats)
Bifrost - Answer-Rainbow bridge connecting Midgard (earth) and Asgard
Black Tezcatlipoca - Answer-Aztec god of power, constantly battling Quetzalcoatl in
"The Four Suns"
Blood Moon - Answer-Daughter of a demon and mother of Hunahpu and Xbalanque
after One Hunahpu's head
spits in her hand
Chakah - Answer-One of the twins in "Nanih Waya"
Chang'e - Answer--Wife of Yi
-Becomes the moon goddess
, Chikasah - Answer-One of the twins in "Nanih Waya"
Chuan Hsu/Zhuanxu - Answer-Chinese god of north heaven, knocks over the sky in his
battle with Gonggong
Cihuacoatl - Answer-Aztec goddess of childbirth, creates humans with the bones of
humans and blood of the
gods
Connaught - Answer-Irish province, Medb rules
Cooley - Answer-Small kingdom within Ulster that has the bull
Corn Lady - Answer-Seminole woman who raises the boy she took and gives the
people corn
Coyote - Answer-CREATOR, TRICKSTER,
AND CULTURE HERO
Cú Chulainn - Answer--"Cú Chulainn" = "hound of Culann"
-Greatest hero of Irish legend
-Known for "warp-spasm" in battle
-Studied under warrior Scáthach in Scotland
-Weapon of choice: spear "Gáe Bolga"
-Foster-brother of Fer Diad
-Foster-son of Fergus
-Associated especially with Ulster
Di Jun - Answer-Father of the ten suns
Fenrir - Answer-Wolf son of Loki, one of three to bring about Ragnarok, tied up until
then
Fer Diad - Answer-Foster brother of Cú Chulainn
Fergus - Answer-Foster father of Cú Chulainn and lover of Medb
Freyja - Answer-Norse fertility goddess and goddess of death
Grendel and grendel's mother - Answer-Two swamp monsters; After Grendel is killed,
his mom takes revenge.
Heimdall - Answer-Norse god of the Bifrost
Hel - Answer-Daughter of Loki and ruler of Helheim, realm for those who didn't die in
battle
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