Ever since humans developed the _________ for higher thought, we have asked questions concerning the world around us. What makes things the way they are and what drives the forces of nature?

Before writing was __________, the only way to preserve these myths was by word of mouth. The art of storytelling was an important skill and the stories were the threads that held the fabric of society together.

Everyone had heard the _______ of the Phoenix’s last visit five hundred years ago. All the people cheer as the colorful bird flies down and drops the egg of myrrh straight into the Temple of the Sun. Then it takes its place on top of the Benben stone to rest before its next journey.

Far beneath the Earth, the dark cave of Arima descends deep into the swampy pit of Tartaros. This is where Zeus defeated the mighty stormgiant Typhon, father of all monsters, who is now ________ under Mount Etna. Here, in the eternal gloom and slime of the earth’s secret place, Typhon’s mate lives alone.

In the blackness of the cave of Arima, something stirs in the stinking and rotten depths, far from the warming light of the sun. Argos Panoptes, the all-seeing giant, has come in search of the cow-nymph Io. The queen of the gods asked Argos to ________ Io, but she wandered off while he slept.