Question

After King Kpasse was protected by these animals, he built a temple for them in Ouidah (“WEE-dah”), Benin dedicated to the Vodun messenger god Dan. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these animals, one of whom named Onini was tricked into stretching himself out as part of a deity’s tasks from the Sky God Nyame.
ANSWER: pythons [accept specific types of pythons such as a king python; prompt on snakes; prompt on serpents]
[10e] Catching Onini the Python and Osebo the Leopard were two of the four tasks that this West African trickster god accomplished to acquire the world’s stories. He takes the form of a spider.
ANSWER: Anansi [or Ananse]
[10m] In another story, Anansi tries to collect all of this property in the world in a calabash, but drops it while climbing a tree. Fionn mac Cumhaill (“FINN muh-COOL”) eats a salmon containing all of this property in the world.
ANSWER: wisdom [accept word forms such as being wise; accept knowledge; accept intelligence or being smart or equivalents]
<Ganon Evans, RMP - World Mythology&gt; ~20100~ &lt;Editor: Jaimie Carlson>

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