Bmola’s Trials

1a) Bubastis= Egyptian cat goddess, daughter of Isis. Name changed after Greeks came to city and mispronounced. Reason why there are so many names.
Other names= Tell Bastet, Ubasti, Baset

2a) The first name is Balder, son of Norse goddess, Frigg.  Friday refers to Frigg, as that is the name the word was originally derived from. Wednesday is derived from “woden”, the English form of Odin who is Frigg’s husband.
2b) Frigg was married to Odin and they were king and queen of Asgard. They had two twin boys, Balder and Hodur. Balder was the “best loved of Gods” and described as being the God of life and light as well. Frigg was the goddess of fate some though and often wove, symbolizing the strings of fate she could manipulate. One day when Baldur expressed he no longer felt the light that shined through his eyes and felt a “shadow on his heart”, Frigg placed her hand on his heart and gasped as she realized it was the shadow of death on her son.
       Not wasting anytime, Frigg called upon all the materials and animals of the world that could hurt her son and made them promise they would not harm him. It is clear Frigg is highly controlling and focused on everything going her way. Other gods attacked Balder with stones and weapons to test his invincibility, but nothing harmed him. Loki witnessed this and wanted to find a way to stop it. However, she is too trusting of others when it comes to revealing weaknesses. Loki, God of mischief, disguised himself as an innocent old woman and Frigg told him her sons one weakness, mistletoe. This lapse in judgment led to her favorite son’s death and thus, is part of her current state of mind. The second traumatic even leading to her dismay is the death of her husband, Odin, who was killed by Loki’s son, Fenrir. From each of these events, it is clear Frigg feels as though she is alone and shall never be happy again.

3a) Nine Greek daughters of Zeus who ruled over the Arts and Sciences
Calliope was the muse of epic poetry.
Clio was the muse of history.
Erato was the muse of love poetry.
Euterpe was the muse of music.
Melpomene was the muse of tragedy.
Polyhymnia was the muse of sacred poetry.
Terpsichore was the muse of dance.
Thalia was the muse of comedy.
Urania was the muse of astronomy.

3d)
Oh sweet Euterpe!
How I yern for your beautiful music to flow through my ears.
Your flute revives a spirit in all that can never be forgotten.
And your lyric poetry always leaves us wanting more.
Please bring us your beauty and delight and we shall rejoice.
May you shine your musical rays upon us so we can celebrate once more!

4)
 I, Crow, have just watched John White and his men searching everywhere for the group of colonists that I’ve been observing for quite some time. Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched these colonists for the purpose of exploring North America’s East coast in 1584. Sir Richard Grenville led the expedition. After Grenville and his men had established relations with the local natives, the Croatans, Grenville left his men to establish the colony while he went to get more men and fresh supplies, promising to return in 1586. They named the colony Roanoke, after the Algonquian word for “shell money.” (Native American tribes of the area often used shells as their form of currency.) But these colonists disappeared, and only I know what happened! It was quite funny to watch the new group of colonists, led by John White, return in 1587 to find nothing but a skeleton. The disappearance of the Roanoke colonists is what led humans to give it the name of “The Lost Colony.” As a funny joke, I think I will leave them a clue as to what happened to their men. I will carve the word “Croatoan” into the fort, and then maybe the word “Cro” in a tree nearby, to leave my mark as well.

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In Herne’s defense, the woman he saw bathing was Aine, the Irish goddess of love and fertility. She was likely taking one of her aliases as Lady of the Lake where she was bathing. Aine is also thought to be goddess of the moon according to some Irish/Celtic mythology.
Herne should not be killed because he is the god of the hunt and protector of the forest animals, as well as the keep of the Windsor Forest. He provides for the people and was not nearly as tasteless as the other men who have thrown themselves at Aine in the past. While this goddess is well known for teaching others about love, she does not always do so in the nicest way. Celtic legend describes one occasion where a human attempted to rape her and she had no choice but to kill him. Another story describes a similar incident when a mortal successfully forced his love upon her, which clearly made her furious, turning him into a goose.
This case is different however, because upon hearing these stories from Aine, Herne decided to make a deal with her. So that no other mortals or Gods alike would harm her again, he summoned several wildlife creatures that would stay close to her at all times. Their heightened sense would detect if danger was near and warn her immediately. Aine appreciated this noble gesture in addition to Herne’s promise to never approach her forcefully again and decided his lesson of respect was learned.