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| Inuit spirit that exercises power over animals and provides food for humans |
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| Inuit creator of earth, man, animals, plants and women |
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| North American creator of the universe |
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| North American spirit that helped form the earth from mud |
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| North American king of the skies, powerful |
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| Inuit spirit of fertility, moral propriety and animals |
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| North American spirit on whose back the world rests |
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| North American all-powerful nurturer |
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| North American Pacific cultural hero and sometimes trickster |
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| North American Plains cultural hero and trickster |
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| In the Inuit myth, "The Origin of the Sea Spirit," a young girl is forced by her father to marry a... |
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| In the Siberian myth of the two moons and two suns, the cooking and reconstitution of the hero are signs of... |
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| The Siberian myth of the elk and Main attempts to explain... |
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| In the Siberian myth, "The Shaman and the Police Chief," the shaman was sentenced to hard labor... |
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| Which of these is not a North American myth of the origins of humanity? |
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| The supreme being created the first man from mud, and the first woman from his rib |
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| The North American myth on the origin of death explains it as... |
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| an argument between Wolf and Coyote |
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| The North American myth of the theft of fire uses which living being to steal it? |
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| The North American myth of the origins of corn explains that... |
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| an old woman rubbed it from the sides of her body |
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| The North American myth of "Great Hare's Painful Lesson" involved which part of his anatomy? |
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| The North American Algonquin myth of Glooskamp and Summer explains... |
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| The North American myth about the twin boys and Talking God explains... |
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| The North American myth of "Coyote and the Gian" illustrates Coyote's... |
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| The aspects of the North American Lakota spirit, Wakan Tanka, include all of these except... |
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| The North American Lakota myth about the sacred pipe involves... |
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| All of these are types of totem poles of the Northwest North Americans except... |
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