Complete Clue List
Across
1. Passageway in a church or temple
4. Excessive and unwarranted. Perhaps the attention some gods and goddesses received
7. In Inca mythology, Urcaguary was the god of this precious stone (sing.)
10. In Inca mythology, the god of rain and wind
11. Another name for 40A
12. Business. Hermes was the Greek god of merchants
13. Weather condition or cake coating. A gift from the Greek god Boreas, bringer of winter
14. Put on a pedestal
15. Allah, Arabian god of everything, the whole ____ and caboodle
16. Affectionate embrace from Eros?
17. Capital of the Inca Empire (1438-1533)
20. Nile Valley country whose pantheon numbered more than 2,000
23. Chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon (alt.)
26. In Hinduism, the "Roaring God"
29. Dialect or manner of speaking
32. Servant
35. In the Roman pantheon, Cupid was the ____ of Venus
36. Tribute, of sorts, possibly written to a deity
37. In Greek mythology, dryads and hamadryads live in oaks and other ____
38. Fit for a nobleman
39. Seeming like a grandparent, Norse goddess of joy, peace and the moon; married to Balder
40. The supreme god in ancient Mesopotamia
41. "The Simpsons" storekeeper sharing his name with the spirits of the mountains in the Inca Empire
42. Salacia was the Roman goddess of this sort of water
45. Bat signals? For the Mayas, Camazotz was a bat god
48. Wade noisily; a sound possibly associated with Hapi, Egyptian god of the annual flooding of the Nile
51. Eat quickly and greedily. Is this how gods would respond to sacrifices?
54. In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the personification of ____
57. In Greek mythology, the Horae were goddesses of the seasons, the ____ of life
60. Regulus's constellation
61. Weapon that Hephaestus (Greek god of blacksmiths) used to split Zeus's head
62. An in-between place, in some religions
63. Enticed, as with mythological Greek Sirens, attempting to shipwreck sailors
64. Type of area inhabited by fauns in Roman mythology
65. Avian creature, traditionally associated with the Greek goddess Athena
66. Scratch (out)
67. Church council
68. Fawns' fathers, associated with Cernunnos, the antlered deity of Celtic mythology
69. Rope fibre
Down
1. Quetzalcoatl worshipper
2. Sah was the Egyptian god of a constellation of the ____ in Orion and Lepus
3. God of abundance and prosperity in the Peruvian and Bolivian altiplano
4. Bring together, as a pantheon combines all the gods and goddesses of a civilisation
5. Part of a pantheon
6. Group of legendary "xian" in Chinese mythology: the ____ immortals
7. In Zoroastrianism, the role of Rashnu (along with Mithra and Sraosha) (sing.)
8. Rotate rapidly: something possibly assisted by Tawhirimatea, the Maori god of winds and storm
9. Faithful and devoted to the deities of a civilisation
18. Mesopotamian sun god
19. Mangy mutt; Hecate is the Greek goddess of this animal
21. Pantheon member
22. Supporting
24. ___ Fáil (Irish coronation stone)
25. Fury, part of the mythologies of many gods
26. Ceremonies, sometimes involving deities
27. Reside. In Norse cosmology, living things ____ on and around Yggdrasil the sacred tree
28. Test for purity
29. Bronze age civilisation centred on the valley of Pakistan's longest river
30. Early Peruvian
31. Vaishya Dev, Nepalese god of toothache, may help relieve pain in this tooth
32. Aphrodite's equivalent for Romans
33. Specialised vocabulary (of the gods?)
34. Instruct in the ways of the gods
43. Rainbow shape associated with the Greek goddess Iris
44. Norse war god whose hand was bitten off by the wolf Fenrir
46. Number of gods in a monotheistic religion
47. In Greek mythology, the Muses provided inspiration for this creative pursuit
49. Not priestly
50. Roman sun god
51. In Chinese mythology, the Goddess Weaver would have been interested in these textiles
52. Mayan god of corn and agriculture (2,3)
53. Tiddy Mun was a bog deity worshipped in England and believed able to control this watery deluge
54. Mama Sara ("maize mother") of Inca mythology was sometimes represented by these toy-like figures
55. Open-air central courtyards in Ancient Roman architecture
56. Greek god of the underworld
57. Roman goddess of agriculture
58. With "the Great", founder of the Achaemenid (first Persian) Empire
59. Hittite god of the sky, derived from 23A