The document summarizes key concepts in Norse, Hawaiian, and Abrahamic mythologies and religions. In Norse mythology, it describes cosmological concepts like Yggdrasil and the origins of the gods. It also outlines major gods like Odin, Thor, and Loki. For Hawaiian mythology, it lists important gods like Pele, Maui and places like Mount Kilauea. It then notes key figures and beliefs in Judaism, Christianity and Islam like God, Jesus, Muhammad and core teachings like the Five Pillars of Islam.

1. From "The Quest for Valhalla: Norse Mythology & Legend" PowerPoint:
1. Poetic Edda
Older, principal, Aesir gods > theogony
2. Prose Edda
Newer, vernacular > theogony
3. Snorri Sturluson
Author/editor of both Eddas
4. Ginnungagap
Beginning gap
5. Nifleheim
Land of fog & ice at top of G-gap
6. Muspelheim
Land of fire & sparks below the G-gap
7. Elivigar
11 rivers, flow from Nifleheim
8. Ymir
1st
god, frost giant
9. Buri
Son Ymir, came from Ymir’s sweat
10. Bor
Buri’s son
11. Odin, Villi, & Ve
3 sons of Bor, killed Ymir
12. Ask & Embla
1st
2 humans, bodies made from logs
13. Asgard
Aesir
14. Vanaheim
Land of the giants, on same level as Asgard, Freyr, Freya & Loki all came from here
15. Midgard
Land of humans & mortals
16. Helheim
Land of the dead, ruled by Hel, Loki’s daughter
17. Yggdrasil
World tree
18. Aesir
Live in Asgard, ruled by Odin
19. Vanir
Live in Vanaheim, elemental gods (giants)
20. Odin
King of the Aesir, god of kings & warriors, controls the Valkyries, wolves, ravens bring him knowledge,
greedy for info
21. Valkyries
Female mythical warrior goddesses who collect fallen brave warriors, take them to Valhalla
22. Valhalla
Inside Asgard, heaven for warriors, train warriors for Ragnarok
23. Grungir
Odin’s spear, used it to hang himself from Yggdrasil through his eye

2. 24. Sleipnir
Odin’s horse, 8-legged, Loki is his father
25. Frigga
Mother goddess, wife of Odin, Thor & Baldur
26. Thor
God of thunder, god of the common man
27. Mjollnir
Thor’s hammer
28. Freyr
God of weather & fertility, twin brother of Freya
29. Freya
Love, fertility, female sexuality, feathered coat allowed her to fly
30. Amber
Freya’s tears
31. Loki
Trickster, god of mischief,
32. Loki's 4 children
Sleipnir
Hel
Fenrir – wolf
Jurmangand - serpent
33. Baldur
Nemesis of Loki’s, god of goodness & light, Loki killed him
34. Tyr
God of justice
35. Heimdall
Gatekeeper of asgard, controls bifrost, could see & hear all 9 worlds, possibly created humanity
36. Bifrost
Rainbow highway
37. Ragnarok
Cataclysmic battle for the end of the world
From "Pacific Ohana: The Mythology Of The Hawaiian Culture" PowerPoint:
1. The 5 largest Hawaiian islands
Hawai’i, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai
2. Heiau
Gathering place/temple
3. Kahuna nui
Ancestral line of leaders/rulers in Hawaii
4. Pili
Father of the kahuna line
5. Poi
Staple food of the Hawaiian islands
6. N'akua & honua
Gods, mortals
7. Tiki
First human
8. Rangi & Papa

3. First 2 gods, sky & earth
9. Luau
Celebration for god of earthquakes
10. Kane
Separated Rangi & Papa, god of the forests
11. Hunamoku
Kings
12. Lono
God of agriculture
13. Ku
God of war
14. Kaikilani
Goddess married to Lono, rainy season festival dedicated to her
15. Makahiki Festival
Dedicated to Kaikilani
16. Laka
Lono’s 2nd
wife, goddess of fertility, invented hula
17. Apuhau
Storm goddess
18. Kanaloa
Sea god, made children w/ Haumea
19. Haumea
Goddess of larger fertility
20. Maui
God of the common man, tried to gain immortality for humanity, fished up the islands from sea floor
21. Hina
Goddess of the moon
22. Tetuna
Eel god, coconut palms created by him
23. Puenui
God of owls, in love w/ Hina
24. Menehune
Elves fed on by owls
25. Pele
Goddess of volcanoes
26. Mount Kilauea
Axis mundi
27. Opelu
God of doctors, healing
28. Kamapua'a
Warrior god, married Pele
29. Kamoho
Shark god, hid Pele to avoid Kamapua’a
30. Kahoali
God of witchcraft and witch doctors
31. Milu
God of the dead

4. From The "Seeking The Divine: The Three Major World Religions PowerPoint":
1. Zaddik
Jewish holyman believed to have a direct line to God
2. Torah
Oral & written laws given by god to Abraham, 5 books = OT
3. Yahweh
Hebrew name for God
4. The Western Wall
Axis mundi, Jerusalem
5. Tanakh
Hebrew Bible, contains Torah & history of Judaism
6. Mezuzah
Case affixed to doorways with religious texts
7. Chai
Symbol that represents “life” & “living”, appreciate life
8. Rabbi
Teacher, can head a synagogue
9. Synagogue
Community gathering place for Jews, doesn’t require rabbi
10. Canaan
Hebrew term for the Promised Land, promised to Abraham by Yahweh, Israel
11. Constantine I
Legalized Christianity in 313 AD in Rome
12. The Trinity
God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
13. Eucharist
Communion, symbolic breaking bread & wine symbolizing Jesus’ sacrifice
14. Catholic
Means “universal” in Latin
15. Pope
Leader of the Catholic Church, seated in the Vatican in Rome
16. Icthus
Jesus fish
17. Alpha & Omega
Beginning & end
18. Apocrypha
Hidden books of the Bible, authored between the OT & NT
19. Baptism
Symbolic washing away of sin, Jesus baptized at 31
20. Xristos
“Annointed one” in Greek
21. Medina
Mohammed’s birthplace, Saudi Arabia
22. Muezzin
Muslim holy man who calls faithful to prayer, minaret
23. Ka’ba
Enclosure holding meteorite that was given to Abraham
24. Allah

5. Arabic word of Muslim God, means “THE god”
25. Mecca
Axis mundi, Ka’ba located here, pilgrimage (hajj)
26. The Five Pillars of Islam
Confession of faith (shahada), ritual prayer (salat), alms tax (zakat), fasting (Ramadan) (sawm),
pilgrimage (hajj)
27. 3 Major Denominations of Christianity
Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy
28. 3 Major Sects of Islam
Sunni, Shi’a, Sufi/sm
29. 4 Major Sects of Judaism
Orthodox, Hasidic, Reform, Conservative, frum