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| narrative, Divine/sacred (DIRECTLY- not siants), timeless past, sometimes accompanied by ritual, and to explain society or nature |
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| Legend (must inc. points) |
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| oral prose narrative, presented as true, tied to specific person place or thing, supernatural or extraordinary |
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| oral prose narrative, shared by a community, relatively stable plot but varied in retelling for purposes of taste and expectations (often to educate or entertain) |
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1) ordinary (fairy tale)
2) animals
3) jokes and anecdotes |
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| Basic myth categories (according to Leeming) |
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1) cosmic
2) theistic
3) hero
4) place & object |
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1) art + architecture + dance
2) ritual
3) works of past mythographers
4) oral & written literature |
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| fusion of different systems of belief |
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Yemanja v. Mary - yemanja brought w slaves to brazil from africa; mother & protector of children and sailors
Sigurd and dragon --> slaying satan as dragon symbolic of |
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| Some modern mythological allusions |
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1) ex nihilo
2) out of chaotic mix (primordial waters, cosmic egg)
3) world parent
4) emergence
5) earth diver |
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1) practices, sometimes rites
2) religious, spiritual
3) symbolic/representative
4) shared communal experience |
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| Creating order through birth |
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Eru/Iluvatar - high god
Ainur - Eru's creations which create the world
Melkor - free thinking Ainur, rebel and strongest of
Arda - Earth
Ulmo - water Ainu
Manwe - air and wind Ainu
Elves - the Firstborn
Men - Followers
Ea - tangible world
Valar - Ainur in Ea, "builders" of it |
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| Eru created Aunir to sing for him. Melkor was out of line and started own tune. back-and-forth until Eru showed them the fruits of their "chaos". Manwe + Ulmo in league as continuing echos of the singing in the sea. Melkor vs Valar. Elves and men came to be. |
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Atum/Ra/Re - high god, first, the sun
Shu - air god
Tefnut - moisture goddess
Nut - the sky, goddess
Geb - the earth, god |
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| First only primordial waters. Atum created self and a hill to stand on. Masturbated and spat out Shu & vomitted Tefnut. |
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| Mesopotamia (Enuma Elish) - Characters |
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Apsu - male, primordial freshwater
Taimat - female, primordial saltwater, world parent
Lahmu and Lahamu - silt deposits (land)
Ea - down the line
Marduk - the sun, sky god |
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| Mesopotamia (Enuma Elish) - Story |
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Apsu + Taimat = Lahmu + Lahamu = ... = Ea (+ Damkina) = Marduk
Apsu mad at Ea and brothers, makes monsters. Marduk kills Taimat in exchange for being made King of Gods and the Universe. Makes Taimat's body into geological features. |
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Lilith - of dirt (as is Adam)
Eve - out of rib |
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3/4 immortal, 1/3 mortal
1000 heads and feet
World parent - body parts became geological features |
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| Iran - aryan and zaroastrian |
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| Ahura Mazda created perfect world w/ perfect human (Gayomart) at center. Evil Angra Mainyu burst out of perfect world (in an egg) and created disturbances that sent sun spinning and the world problems |
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| Kronos, son of Heaven, castrates Heaven after Earth complains of him hiding kids in her. Fathers Zeus with Rhea (other titan), who is hidden from him via rock, and later kills Kronos. |
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| Norse - World Parent of Eddas |
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North & South separated by Ginnungagap, in middle of which island on which frost giant Ymir melting. Man and woman came from left armpit. 3 gods (Odin, Vili and Ve), "children" down line from Ymir's head, killed Ymir and built world from body. Made first man and woman from trees (ash and elm)- Ask and Embla. Sun & moon chariot story.
Made maggots on Ymir into dwarves. |
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| Quetzalcoatl and his brother Tezcatlipoca saw destructive Coatlicue in primordial waters and tore her to pieces to make universe. |
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| China - Cosmic Egg and Yin-Yang |
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