Epona - 2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State

Question

Modern scholars have disputed the traditional assumption that this goddess represented a continental form of the Welsh mythological figure Rhiannon. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this fertility goddess who was strongly associated with horses and was later adopted by the Romans as the patroness of Roman cavalry.

ANSWER: Epona

[10m] Epona originated as a fertility goddess of these ancient people. One ancient text describes how these people supposedly sacrificed humans by burning them alive inside a large wicker man.

ANSWER: Celts [or Celtic peoples; accept Gauls or Galli or Galatai or Gallo-Roman religion; accept Commentarii de Bello Gallico or Bellum Gallicum or Commentaries on the Gallic War; prompt on druids]

[10e] The Gallo-Roman god Sucellus was often depicted holding one of these objects, which he may have used to build fences between fields. The Roman god Vulcan was often depicted using one of these objects at his forge.

ANSWER: hammers [or mallet; accept blacksmith’s hammer]

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Summary


2024 ACF Winter at UC Berkeley	2024-11-16	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Clemson	2024-11-16	Y	7	15.71	100%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Northwestern	2024-11-16	Y	10	21.00	90%	80%	40%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	12.86	0%	100%	29%
2024 ACF Winter at Ohio State	2024-11-16	Y	7	14.29	86%	57%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Online	2024-11-16	Y	8	17.50	100%	63%	13%
2024 ACF Winter at UBC	2024-11-16	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Winter at Central Florida	2024-11-16	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Winter at Oxford	2024-11-16	Y	10	19.00	100%	70%	20%

Data


CWRU B (UG)	Michigan B	10	0	0	10
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	0	0	0
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan B	10	10	0	20
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Kenyon A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Kenyon A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Pitt A	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Michigan C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Pitt B (UG)	Michigan State A	0	10	0	10
Michigan D	OSU C	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B (DII)	0	10	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Ohio State B (DII)	0	0	10	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A (UG)	CWRU D (DII)	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Kenyon A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Michigan C (UG)	CWRU A (UG)	10	10	10	30
Michigan C (UG)	Pitt B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Kenyon B (DII)	Michigan State A	0	0	10	10
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan B	10	0	10	20
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	0	10	10
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
CWRU B (UG)	Michigan State B (UG)	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Kenyon A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Kenyon A (UG)	0	10	10	20
Pitt A	Ohio State C (DII)	0	10	10	20