Select one common divine role that recurs in world mythology.
Possible options of divine roles include the following: father or mother divinities, divinities of war, home or hearth divinities, divinities of love, divinities of wisdom, divinities of medicine or health, divinities of the wind, divinities of agriculture, divinities of the sky, ruler of all the gods, and so on.
Identify the role in the title of your matrix.
Select two myths, each from a different culture, in which the divine role appears. Identify the divinity names and cultures in columns A and B.
Complete the matrix by answering each of the five questions for both selected divinities.
|Title: Divinities of Love and Beauty |Column A |Column B |
| |Divinity Name: Aphrodite |Divinity Name: Freyja |
| |Culture of Origin: Greek |Culture of Origin: Norse |
|How is this divinity portrayed? |She was portrayed to be the goddess |She was the goddess of love, lust, |
|Describe the divinity’s role within the|of love and beauty often shown |fertility and magic. According to |
|myth. |smiling. She is the daughter of Zeus.|Freyja (1996), she is believed to be |
| |Some myths also say they daughter of |the daughter of the sea god Njord and|
| |Uranus (Aphrodite, 2002). One of the |the earth-goddess Nerthus. She had a |
| |more known and told myth is her |twin brother named Frey. Some believe|
| |helping Paris to abduct his love |that she was married to Od and once
