What is the Shinto ritual of rebuilding Ise Grand Shrine every 20 years called?
Answer
Shikinen Sengū
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
From which part of Izanagi's body did Amaterasu emerge?
Answer
His left eye
Who is the Shinto god of wind?
Answer
Fujin
What was the first island created by Izanagi and Izanami according to myth?
Answer
Onogoro-shima
What is the name of the sacred mirror that is one of the Imperial Regalia of Japan?
Answer
Yata no Kagami
What is the name of the Rapa Nui birdman cult?
Answer
Tangata manu
In Samoan mythology, who is the supreme god?
Answer
Tagaloa
In Maori mythology, what is the name of the giant fish that Māui caught?
Answer
Te Ika-a-Māui
What is the name of the Hawaiian volcano goddess's sister?
Answer
Hi'iaka
In Hawaiian mythology, who is the god of the ocean?
Answer
Kanaloa
Who is the Maori god of the sea and fish?
Answer
Tangaroa
Which female deity with three faces and a vase is associated with long life?
Answer
Ushnishavijaya
Which Indian master is considered a second Buddha in Tibetan Buddhism?
Answer
Padmasambhava
Which Buddha represents the center of the Five Dhyani Buddhas?
Answer
Vairocana
Which Buddha represents the southern direction and the skandha of feeling?
Answer
Ratnasambhava
Which Buddha represents the northern direction in the Five Wisdom Buddhas?
Answer
Amoghasiddhi
What part of Ymir's body was used to make Midgard's wall?
Answer
his eyebrows
Which Norn represents the past?
Answer
Urðr
Which well lies at the root of Yggdrasil in Asgard?
Answer
Urðarbrunnr
Which wolf chases the sun in Norse myth?
Answer
Sköll
What did the gods create from Ymir's blood?
Answer
Seas
What were the names of the first humans?
Answer
Ask and Embla
Name Odin's two brothers.
Answer
Vili and Vé
What did Hector call his son in the Iliad?
Answer
Scamandrius