Q 01/05

The Egyptian goddess Tefnut usually appears as a woman with the head of which fierce animal?

A) A jackal

B) A lioness

C) A crocodile

D) A falcon

Answer · why

B) A lioness

A lioness marked Tefnut as dangerous as well as life-giving, and some images show her as the whole animal with no human body at all.

Q 02/05

The name Tefnut may imitate the sound of which bodily act, the way her father made her in some myths?

A) Coughing

B) Yawning

C) Spitting

D) Snoring

Answer · why

C) Spitting

Spitting is the best guess: the 'tef' in her name sounds like an Egyptian word for the act, and some creation texts say her father simply ejected her ...

Q 03/05

When the lost Tefnut and her twin returned, the Egyptian creator god wept, and his tears became what?

A) The first humans

B) The Nile flood

C) The morning stars

D) The desert sands

Answer · why

A) The first humans

The first humans sprang from those tears, a pun in Egyptian, where the words for 'tears' and 'people' sound almost alike.

Q 04/05

Which Egyptian god of the air was both the twin brother and the husband of the goddess Tefnut?

A) Ptah

B) Khnum

C) Sobek

D) Shu

Answer · why

D) Shu

Shu and Tefnut were the first divine couple, and every other god in their famous family descends from the pair.

Q 05/05

In a well-known myth, the furious Tefnut abandons Egypt and storms off to which neighbouring land?

A) Nubia

B) Canaan

C) Arabia

D) Phoenicia

Answer · why

A) Nubia

Nubia, the land up the Nile from Egypt, is where she fled in a rage after quarrelling with the sun god, and it took another god's coaxing to bring her...