7270452059 | Abraham and Isaac | God tests a man to sacrifice his son and an angel stops him | 0 | |
7270452060 | Achilles | Greek hero of the Trojan war | 1 | |
7270452061 | Absalom | a son who brings heartache to his father | 2 | |
7270452062 | Judgement Day | A religious term for the end of the world | 3 | |
7270452063 | Atlas | a book of maps | 4 | |
7270452064 | Bethlehem | Birthplace of Jesus | 5 | |
7270452065 | Cain and Abel | Adam and Eve's sons, Cain killed Abel | 6 | |
7270452066 | cast the first stone | be the first to make an accusation | 7 | |
7270452067 | Daedalus and Icarus | Father and son who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax | 8 | |
7270452068 | Dionysus/Bacchus | God of wine and fertility | 9 | |
7270452069 | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | symbolic of death and devastation 1. Antichrist 2. Terrible warfare 3. famine 4. Death | 10 | |
7270452070 | Garden of Gethsemane | Place where Jesus prayed in agony and the soldiers came to arrest him. | 11 | |
7270452071 | Gorgons | Three monsters of Greek Mythology; only one was mortal-Medusa | 12 | |
7270452072 | Guy Fawkes | a member of a group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605 | 13 | |
7270452073 | Holy Grail | Extremely desirable or valuable, long and difficult quest | 14 | |
7270452074 | Jacobs Ladder | 15 | ||
7270452075 | Jephthah's daughter | 16 | ||
7270452076 | Jezebel | 17 | ||
7270452077 | John the Baptist | Relative of Jesus who prepared the way for him by preaching repentance and baptizing | 18 | |
7270452078 | Judas Iscariot | One of the twelve Apostles who betrays Jesus with a kiss for thirty pieces of silver. | 19 | |
7270452079 | Lamb of God | 20 | ||
7270452080 | Lazarus | a man who, in a story from the Bible, was "raised from the dead" by Jesus Christ | 21 | |
7270452081 | Lethe River | 22 | ||
7270452082 | Lord's Prayer | 23 | ||
7270452083 | Lot's wife | 24 | ||
7270452084 | Virgin Mary | 25 | ||
7270452085 | Noah and the flood | 26 | ||
7270452086 | Odysseus | Epic hero of The Trojan War who is trying to return home to Ithaca to see his wife and son | 27 | |
7270452087 | Trojan horse | fake peace-offering created to trick the Greeks and end the Trojan war | 28 | |
7270452088 | Pandora | 29 | ||
7270452089 | Persephone | Queen of the Underworld | 30 | |
7270452090 | Philistines | Enemies of the Israelites, the strongest people in Canaan | 31 | |
7270452091 | Primordial soup | 32 | ||
7270452092 | Prodigal Son | A story of forgiveness. The father was filled with joy upon seeing his son return home. | 33 | |
7270452093 | Prometheus | mythical figure who stole fire from the gods for humans | 34 | |
7270452094 | Psalm 23:4 | 35 | ||
7270452095 | Sisyphus | trickster who twice defied Death, pushes forever a rolling stone | 36 | |
7270452096 | Sodom and Gomorrah | cities destroyed by God because of wickedness | 37 | |
7270452097 | Solomon | Son of David, built the Temple in Jerusalem | 38 | |
7270452098 | Styx / Charon | 39 | ||
7270452099 | Tempest | 40 | ||
7270452100 | Tower of Babel | 41 | ||
7270452101 | Troy | 42 | ||
7270452102 | Utopia | an ideal society | 43 |
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