The Atoz Game (Part 3)

Songs from Musicals

And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going - Dreamgirls
Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Porgy and Bess
Can’t Help Loving that Man - Showboat
December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - Jersey Boys
Edelweiss - The Sound of Music
Follow Me – Camelot
Goodnight, My Someone - The Music Man
How to Handle a Woman - Camelot
I’d Do Anything - Oliver!
Jellicle Cats - Cats
King Herod’s Song - Jesus Christ Superstar
Love Never Goes Away - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Molasses to Rum - 1776
Nice Work if You Can Get It - Crazy for You and Nice Work if You Can Get It
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ - Oklahoma!
Popular - Wicked
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) - Chess
Remember - A Little Night Music
Spider-Man! - Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Cabaret
Un Poco Loco - Coco: The Musical
Virginia - The Civil War
We Open In Venice - Kiss Me, Kate
Xanadu - Xanadu
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught, South Pacific

The song, which speaks out against racism, was subject to widespread criticism, judged by some to be too controversial or downright inappropriate for the musical stage, but Rodgers and Hammerstein insisted that it stay in.

Songs from Musicals

And I Am Telling You I Am Not Going - Dreamgirls
Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Porgy and Bess
Can’t Help Loving that Man - Showboat
December 1963 (Oh What a Night) - Jersey Boys
Edelweiss - The Sound of Music
Follow Me – Camelot
Goodnight, My Someone - The Music Man
How to Handle a Woman - Camelot
I’d Do Anything - Oliver!
Jellicle Cats - Cats
King Herod’s Song - Jesus Christ Superstar
Love Never Goes Away - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Molasses to Rum - 1776
Nice Work if You Can Get It - Crazy for You and Nice Work if You Can Get It
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ - Oklahoma!
Popular - Wicked
Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility) - Chess
Remember - A Little Night Music
Spider-Man! - Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Tomorrow Belongs to Me - Cabaret
Un Poco Loco - Coco: The Musical
Virginia - The Civil War
We Open In Venice - Kiss Me, Kate
Xanadu - Xanadu
You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught, South Pacific
Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart, Thumbs Up!

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff

-“BB”-

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined
Bifrost – the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf

Housekeeping.

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story

Malakas and Maganda: The Mythological Man and Woman From Bamboo - Mythlok

not in play — I am impressed!

I expected the Roman or Greek pantheon, with maybe one or two Eqyptian or Norse deities thrown into the mix … but I am truly gobsmacked!

And we’re only halfway through!

Carry on.

-“BB”-

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost

From Mythology

Asclepius – Greek god of healing and medicine, and source of the serpent-entwined staff
Bifrost - the rainbow bridge of Asgard
Ceres – Roman goddess of agriculture; Cerberus - AKA The Hound of Hades - a three-headed dog whose capture was the Twelfth Labor of Hercules.
Dionysus - The Greek god of wine, winemaking, grape cultivation, theater, fertility, and ritual madness.
Emer - the noble daughter of an Irish Chieftain named Forgall the Clever
Freyja - Norse goddess of love, beauty, sex, fertility, and war, among other aspects
Grendel - monster of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf
Hanwi, mother Moon spirit of the Lakota
Iris - The Greek goddess of rainbows
Jotunheim - the realm of the giants in Norse mythology
Kamohoaliʻi - Hawaiian shark god, brother of Pele
Lamassu - protective being in Mesopotamian mythology
Malakas and Maganda - the first man and woman in the indigenous Filipino creation story
Nienna - Valar, and de facto goddess of pity, mercy and hope in Tolkien’s Middle-earth pantheon
Odomankoma - West African creator god
Prometheus - Titan from Greek myth who gave humanity fire, but at a terrible cost
Questing Beast - a chimerical creature which appears in various Arthurian legends; it was the subject of a number of quests by various knights, particularly King Pellinore and his family