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Tough Egyptian Mythology Trivia Quiz

This quiz will probably be very hard for most people who have not gone out of their way to read the more extensive Egyptian mythologies. Good luck!

A multiple-choice quiz by kitipurr. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
kitipurr

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
24,852

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
8 / 20

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Question 1 of 20

1. Her name means 'She Who Loves Silence'; the goddess of the mountain overlooking the Valley of the Kings. She was a cobra goddess who would spit venom at anyone attempting to disturb one of the valley's royal tombs. Who was she? Hint

Buto

Har-em-akhet

Meretseger

Sakhmet

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Question 2 of 20

2. Amenthes, in Egyptian mythology, is equal to what in Greek mythology? Hint

Hades

Heracles

Olympus

Aphrodite

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Question 3 of 20

3. He is an ancient jackal-headed god of the dead, in later mythology identified with Osiris. Who is he? Hint

Nut

Meskhenet

Ailuros

Khentamenti

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Question 4 of 20

4. Which of the following is NOT the name of one of the Egyptian falcon gods? Hint

Anti

Chenti-irti

Bakha

Behedti

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Question 5 of 20

5. The name of a demon; sometimes clearly female and human, sometimes with the head of a crocodile, the torso of a wild cat and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus. Who is she? Hint

Ammit

Yaaru

Nut

Mesenet

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Question 6 of 20

6. The Egyptian god-personification of Fate. His name and that of Renenet (Fortune) are usually found coupled. They are said to be in the hands of Thoth, the divine intelligence of of the gods. Who was he? Hint

Shai

Hah

Apis

Aker

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Question 7 of 20

7. Which is NOT the name of an Egyptian god? Hint

Hah

Heh

Hie

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Question 8 of 20

8. The term to denote the divine council of gods and goddesses in general; in specific, the group of the nine chief deities of the Osirian cycle in ancient Egyptian myth. Which word fits this description? Hint

Akeru

Menhit

Ogdoad

Ennead

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Question 9 of 20

9. It consists of four gods and four goddesses who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world. What is it? Hint

Ennead

Akeru

Ogdoad

Menhit

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Question 10 of 20

10. Saa is the Egyptian personification of? Hint

intelligence

birth

sexual desire

hunger

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Question 11 of 20

11. Imset (human), Hapi (baboon), Duamutef (jackal), and Kebechsenef (falcon) represent the four cardinal directions and are also portrayed on the four corners of the sarcophagus. They are what? Hint

the Sons of Horus

the Priests of Re

wind gods

avenging spirits

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Question 12 of 20

12. In Egyptian mythology, the human personality has five specific constituents. What are they called? Hint

Akh, Kia, Ret, Name and Shadow

Ka, Nun, Tet, Sia and Name

Akh, Ka, Ba, Name and Shadow

Sia, Ba, Hil, Ret and Shadow

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Question 13 of 20

13. Hike is the personification of what? Hint

long trips or pilgrimages

the gods' supernatural powers

the changes of the moon

warrior prowess

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Question 14 of 20

14. He is mentioned three times in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He is the 'firstborn son of Osiris', and seems the be one of the gods of generation. Who is he? Hint

Beb

Har-sa-iset

Seth

Nephthys

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Question 15 of 20

15. Joh is a god of what? Hint

the fields

medicine

the waters

the moon

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Question 16 of 20

16. He is a deity of nature, associated by the Greeks with their god Pan. Who is he? Hint

Mendes

Marinate

Marekut

Menigute

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Question 17 of 20

17. Which three deities were worshipped as a triad in Latopolis (the current Esna) in Upper Egypt? Hint

Auf, Kuk and Bastet

Osiris, Isis and Seth

Chnum, Menhit and Hike

Re, Aken and Anti

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Question 18 of 20

18. She is the Goddess of Good Fortune and Childbirth. She was shown as a mixture of a hippopotamus' body, a crocodile's head, and a lion's feet. Who is she? Hint

Babi

Satet

Anuket

Taurt

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Question 19 of 20

19. Though not his main position, he was worshipped as a fertility, resurrection, and vegetation god. He was married to a sky goddess. He was father to the god of the sky and protector of the dead. Who was he? Hint

Seth

Osiris

Anun

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Question 20 of 20

20. She was equated by the Greeks as the Egyptian version of Artemis. Who was she? Hint

Bastet

Renpet

Amathaunta

Ipet

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Meretseger

Occasionally she would also manifest herself as a scorpion with a woman's head. Meretseger was especially revered by the inhabitants of Deir el-Medina who were responsible for building the royal tombs (they called her 'Lady of the Peak'). She was believed to strike at workers who committed crimes, but if the victim repented of their actions, she mercifully would heal the wound she had inflicted.

2. Amenthes, in Egyptian mythology, is equal to what in Greek mythology?

Answer: Hades

It is the abode of the spirits of the deceased where judgement was passed by Osiris.

3. He is an ancient jackal-headed god of the dead, in later mythology identified with Osiris. Who is he?

Answer: Khentamenti

Khentamenti is 'He who is in the West', the god of the cemetary at Abydos, to whom the dead went. Meskhenet is a goddess who acted as a midwife and who presided over the birth-chamber. Ailuros is another name for Bastet. Nut is a sky-goddess.

4. Which of the following is NOT the name of one of the Egyptian falcon gods?

Answer: Bakha

Bakha is the sacred bull of Hermonthis in Egypt, and an incarnation of Menthu, a personification of the heat of the sun; he changed color every hour of the day. Chenti-irti is an Egyptian falcon god of law and order. Behedti is a local form of Horus in Behdet (Edfu), depicted as a crouching falcon. Anti, the god of ferrymen, was portrayed as a falcon, or with a falcon's head.

5. The name of a demon; sometimes clearly female and human, sometimes with the head of a crocodile, the torso of a wild cat and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus. Who is she?

Answer: Ammit

Ammit ('devouress of the dead') sits under the Scales of Justice, in the Hall of the Two Truths, in the House of Osiris.

Answer: Shai

Rameses II boasted that he himself is 'lord of Shai and creator of Renenet.' Shai was originally the deity who 'fated' what should happen to a man. There was little or no distinction between Shai and Renenet and the abstract ideas which they represented. In the Papyrus of Ani, Shai stands by himself near the pillar of Balance.

7. Which is NOT the name of an Egyptian god?

Answer: Hie

Ha is the Egyptian god of the west and of the western desert. Heh is primordial god of Egypt - together with his female counterpart Hauhet he represents infinity. Hah is the god of the sky, the personification of eternity and the infinite sky.

Answer: Ennead

The Ennead includes Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Seb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthy.

9. It consists of four gods and four goddesses who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world. What is it?

Answer: Ogdoad

The pairs of the Ogdoad are Nun and Naunet (the primordial water), Huh and Hauhet (infinite space), Kuk and Kauket (darkness), and Amun and Amaunet (representing hidden powers). They created the mound upon which to lay the egg from which the sun god emerged.

The gods of the Ogdoad are represented as frogs or with the head of a frog; the goddesses in the shape of a snake or as a woman with the head of a snake. Their cult centered on the town of Khemnu (Greek Hermopolis) in Middle Egypt. They also had a sanctuary at Medinet Habu in western Thebes.

10. Saa is the Egyptian personification of?

Answer: intelligence

11. Imset (human), Hapi (baboon), Duamutef (jackal), and Kebechsenef (falcon) represent the four cardinal directions and are also portrayed on the four corners of the sarcophagus. They are what?

Answer: the Sons of Horus

They assist the deceased during their journey to the underworld. They protect the canopic jars (jars where the viscera are kept after mummification). Their heads are depicted on the lids of those jars.

12. In Egyptian mythology, the human personality has five specific constituents. What are they called?

Answer: Akh, Ka, Ba, Name and Shadow

Ba is the soul of the deceased; Ka is the spirit and life-force of both humans and gods. The Akh has been referred to as a kind of glorified being of light (spirit). The Akh is sometimes defined as the combination of the Ka and Ba, other times it is the Akh and Ba which make up the Ka. (Name and Shadow are considered fairly self-explanatory).

13. Hike is the personification of what?

Answer: the gods' supernatural powers

He is regarded as the eldest son of Atum. Doctors, who invoked his magical powers when practicing their arts, called themselves 'priests of Hike'.

14. He is mentioned three times in the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He is the 'firstborn son of Osiris', and seems the be one of the gods of generation. Who is he?

Answer: Beb

Nephthys is the 'Friend of the Dead,' and is first mentioned in Old Kingdom funerary literature as riding the 'night boat' of the underworld. Har-sa-iset is a form of the god Horus, specifically as the son of Isis. Seth is the brother of Isis and killer of Osiris.

15. Joh is a god of what?

Answer: the moon

16. He is a deity of nature, associated by the Greeks with their god Pan. Who is he?

Answer: Mendes

17. Which three deities were worshipped as a triad in Latopolis (the current Esna) in Upper Egypt?

Answer: Chnum, Menhit and Hike

Menhit is the ancient Egyptian lion-goddess and a goddess of war. She is the wife of Chnum, ram god who makes the Nile delta fertile and suitable for agriculture (considered the creator of humans). Hike is Menhit's son.

18. She is the Goddess of Good Fortune and Childbirth. She was shown as a mixture of a hippopotamus' body, a crocodile's head, and a lion's feet. Who is she?

Answer: Taurt

Popular with the ordinary men and women, she was responsible for fertility and protecting women before, during, and after childbirth. Her husband was Bes, the God of Pleasure

Answer: Osiris

His main position was the god of the underworld.

20. She was equated by the Greeks as the Egyptian version of Artemis. Who was she?

Answer: Bastet

The cat-headed goddess, Bastet was strictly a solar deity until the arrival of Greek influence on Egyptian society, when she became a lunar goddess due to the Greeks associating her with their Artemis. Because of this association, and of Horus with Apollo, Bastet became adopted into the Osiris-Isis myth as their daughter, an association not made previous to the arrival of Hellenistic influence on Egypt.

Source: Author kitipurr

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