Creation Myths
the light and dark elements in the Polynesian creation myth
What is Ao and Po?
this author died in obscurity and was buried in an unmarked grave
What is Zora Neale Hurston?
Who did Perseus famously slay?
Medusa
this is one way to outline the plot structure of many stories
What is Freytag's Pyramid?
the best ogre ever
What is Shrek?
the name of the tree that supports the Norse cosmos
What is Yggdrasil?
these are two qualities of ekphrastic poetry
What are:
-focuses on another artwork for the entire poem
-gives lots of lucid detail of the artwork
-artwork the intellectual or emotional response to the artwork
-may discuss the author or creator
-may look to the reader to consider their own responses
this is how Odysseus outsmarted the Cyclops Polyphemus
What is he got him drunk, pierced his eye with a burning stick, and escaped by hiding under the sheep.
this is one general characteristic of myth
What is:
-myth is constant among all human beings in all times
-myth is a telling of events that happened before written history
-Myth is a unique use of language that focuses on the five senses.
-Myth is the glue that holds society together.
-Myth is an essential ingredient in all codes of moral conduct.
-Myth is a pattern of beliefs that give meaning to life.
this is a concept important to graphic novels that has to do with completing the whole picture when given only small parts
what is closure?
the number of bodies Brahma assumes in the creation of the world
What is five?
this fieldwork technique in cultural anthropology involves actively visiting the culture and inserting yourself into the lives and language of the people you are studying
What is participant observation?
Atalanta fought this animal and ultimately was changed into this animal
What is boar and what is lioness?
this is a definition of folklore
What is:
Folklore denotes oral narration, rituals, crafts, and other forms of vernacular expressive culture.
Folklore is the traditional, unofficial, non-institutional part of culture. It encompasses all knowledge, understandings, values, attitudes, assumptions, feelings, and beliefs transmitted in traditional forms by word of mouth or by customary examples.
this is how the possum lost the fur on its tale
Ham stole them for the strings on his makeshift banjo so that he could play music on the ark
the four items that the Maya gods tried to create humans out of
What is clay, tree branch, gold, and flesh.
the significance of Eatonville
What is it was the first entirely African American township in the nation and was also where Zora Neale Hurston grew up and wrote about.
This character was so beautiful that she inspired Zeus to turn into a bull and carry her away to Crete.
What is Europa?
Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men is an example of this since she collects the folktales of a specific culture
What is an ethnography?
In Silko's poem about the coyote, the coyote wins this contest by doing this.
What is the contest to see who could sleep in a snowstorm the longest and he wins by sneaking out and sleeping under the snow and returning before the others woke up
an explanation of the Finnish creation myth
What is: Luonnatar gets lonely and floats in the sea. A male duck comes and builds a nest on her knees. The duck lays eggs in the nest. The nest burns Luonnatar's legs and she knocks the eggs in the sea. The yolks become the sun, the white the moon and the spots on the shell become the stars and the black flecks the clouds.
In the power of myth, what did Joseph Campbell say about myth and nature?
What is:
He noticed that religions and mythologies that think that god and nature are one were more likely to want to protect their environment. Whereas mythologies (like the Christian creation story) that think of nature as something man has control over and something separate than the divine, were more likely to have a destructive and careless relationship with nature.
What 4 creatures did Theseus famously defeat?
Minotaur. Sciron. Sinis. Procrustes.
this is the relationship between history and myth
history is seen as recorded fact while myth is understood as something false or made up, but in reality for a lot of cultures myth was history and they weren't as different as they seem now
this is the name, poet, and artistic inspiration of one of the Ekphrastic poems that we read
What is:
Ode on a Grecian Urn by Keats
Landscape and the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams
Musee de Beaux Arts by Auden
Starry Night by Anne Sexton
Aubade with Burning City by Ocean Vuong
Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith