About Myth
common elements
Native American Myth
Vocabulary
100
What is myth used for?
Myth is a common form of literary work. Its usage including teaching, defining,entertaining, glorifying, and creating social structure.
100
the Bible and the Big Bang Theory
What are common theories about creation?
100
The relationship between human beings and other creatures in the Native American Myth?
What is all living creatures are equal!
100
an area that is fenced in or surrounded
What is enclosure?
200
What are some types of myths?
Accretion/ Conjunction Myths Secretion Myths Division/ Consummation Myths Earth-Myths Emergence Myths Two creators myths Deus Faber Myths
200
Native to a particular area
What is indigenous?
200
What are the themes of the myth Sedna?
In the myth Sedna, the importance of marriage, the harm of revenge, and the relationship between human and animals are the major themes.
200
torn up by the roots, removed
What is uprooted?
300
What happens when myth is no longer being trusted by a society?
It become story, movie, and other purely literary work. Ex: Avatar, Thor.
300
The most important person in a tribe whose task was teaching the history
What is the storyteller?
300
What is the social standing of children in Native American Society?
Children are important and they need to be heard. Because they are the people who pass the story down to the next generation.
300
someone who pushes in where he is not wanted
What is intruder?
400
There were no written languages and important information about tribes was passed down this way.
What is the oral language or stories?
400
Objects, animals, and activities that show how Native Americans lived
What are cultural characteristics?
400
joined by membranes
What is webbed?
500
Ideas, characters, or motifs that appear in cultures across the world
What is an archetype?
500
America's earliest form of literature
What is the oral tradition?
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