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CLCV 115 Exam #1 UIUC
Hominids - answer✔the group consisting of all modern and extinct Great Apes (that is, modern
humans, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans plus all their immediate ancestors)
Paleolithic - answer✔This is the Old stone age period group, they performed human burials,
acquired fire, language, hand tools, belief in the great goddess emerges, cave paintings seen, and
were around from 100,000-c.--> 12,500 BC
Mesolithic - answer✔This is the Middle Stone Age, where people acquired improvements in
hunting and fishing, smaller tools; bone and antler jewelry. These individuals lived from 12,500
to 8500 BC
Neolithic - answer✔This is the New Stone Age, where we begin to see agriculture,
domestication of animals; pottery, wheeled transportation, we see Jericho [Israel] (8500 BC) -
stone fortifications, skull (ancestor) worship. We also see the city of Catalhoyuk [Turkey] (6000
BC) - bull shrine/bucrania (cow skulls). This period of the New Stone Age lasted from 8500-
3000 BC
Animism - answer✔This is defined as people finding a spirit in something else, Anima "soul
spirit", hence why the early gods are spoken of as stars, suns, etc, they are "animated to having
souls"
Venus Figurines - answer✔These great goddess venus figurines were found at 20,000 BC, and
displayed anthropomorphic traits. We also found ones at 35,000 BC, and we believe that this is
when spirituality began to develop
The Great Goddess - answer✔This goddess was believed to have been worshipped for the
fertility of Humans/human fertility, crops fertility, domesticated animal fertility. There was not
only 1 of these, every community had a different version, and it was as powerful as our concept
of god is. Basically a female goddess of fertility
Anthropomorphic - answer✔This term means having characteristics that are human like, if a god
is possessing ______ traits, it means he/she has a human like form. "In the form or shape of a
human".
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Theriomorphic - answer✔The Egyptians were especially fond of _________ gods, or gods in the
shape of wild animals. They were especially fond of this in their hybrids, where we can see
animal heads on human bodies etc
Gynomorphic - answer✔This term literally means having the shape of a woman, or female-like
shape. ________-woman, morph - shape
Bucrania - answer✔Cow skulls
Polytheism - answer✔This means the belief in or worship of more than one god
Monotheism - answer✔This means the belief that there is only one God
Parthenogenesis - answer✔This term literally means Virgin birth. We see Night gives
_____________ to day and Aether (brightness).
Variant - answer✔A variant, in terms of mythology, means an alternative version of a myth,
which happens quite frequently. Just know that these exist, and that there are various alternative
interpretations
Syncretism - answer✔The combination of different forms of belief or practice, or the fusion of
two or more originally different religious belief systems into a new system
Personification - answer✔This term literally means to make something into a person
Millennium - answer✔This term is used to describe a period of a thousand years, or is an
anniversary of a thousand years
Eponym/Eponymous - answer✔This means literally "Named after", we see these for example in
Greece, where the Greeks are ________ ancestors of Hellen, the first Greek
Etiological Myth - answer✔These are myths that explain origins and causes, creation myths are
__________, explaining how the universe or the world or life in the world came into being.
Teshub - answer✔Hittite storm god, god of weather, sky, and storms. Main Hittite God.
Trickster - answer✔This term was used to refer to trickster gods, who are tricky and deceiving.
Prometheus is one of these, as he creates man and steals fire for them.
Patronymic, -id, ids, ides - answer✔This means "Named after the father, or our father" ex
Johannsen. The greeks used the endings id,ids,ides to show this "Son of, daughter of, child of,
children of" Say Joshid Joshids Joshides, would be the "Son/daughter/children of Josh".
