Myths and Tradition
The studies of ancient stories from civilizations.
What is mythology?
Name the 3 ways we categorize myth stories
What are behavior, creation, and natural?
According to natural myth of the Caddo tribe, a coyote is responsible for using ________ to create this nocturnal feature.
What are pebbles and stars?
Name one modern day reference to anything in mythology.
Movies, books, song lyrics, apps, brands or logos. (be specific).
Goddess of agriculture, grain, and cereal.
Who is Ceres?
Oral Tradition
The practice of retelling unwritten stories from generation to generation.
Nature, usually.
What is a natural myth?
This animal, called Azban, cleverly lures in a clan of crayfish.
What is a racoon?
DAILY DOUBLE: The Norse gods Sunna, Mani, Tyr, Odin, Thor, Freya, and the Roman god Saturn inspired this calendar feature.
What are the days of the week?
Daily double...see what I did there?
Loki (Norse), Rabbit (Native American), and Sisyphus (Greek) for example.
Who are trickster gods?
The stories of 1000+ indigenous tribes with unique languages of North and Central America.
What is Native American Mythology?
Give an example of something that could be explained in a creation myth.
What is a world, a race, all living things, a realm, etc.?
She spun tapestries of silk thread as though the thread shot out from her own hands.
Arachne
What is Norse Mythology?
Who are Odin, Thor, Heimdahl, Loki, Freya, Frigg?
The older gods, and the newer gods of Greek Mythology are the Titans and Olympians, respectfully. Name three Olympian gods.
Who are Zeus, Hera, Athena, Apollo, Poseidon, Ares, Artemis, Demeter, Aphrodite, Dionysis, Hermes, Hephaistos?
Viking Mythology
Ragnarok, the Norse apocalypse, for example.
What is a creation myth?
Summarize the conflict between Coyote and the Horned Toad Lady.
Horned Toad Lady has a wonderful song she sings. Coyote asks her to teach him, but later forgets. He is angry when she won't teach him again.
The name of a rain forest, a river, and a prime shopping resource of the 21st century.
What is Amazon?
Sometimes in winter, and sometimes the hot...
This every two year event entices the athletes a lot.
What are the Olympics?
Today, mythology serves primarily as literature and entertainment. In the past it was something else.
What is religion or belief system?
Morals and lessons in story can show us the ________ of a society.
What are values?
Name one way the rabbit deceived the alligator.
What is-- a crackling noise that's his voice, and smoke that's his bad breath?
This brand's victorious slogan is also the name of a Greek goddess.
What is Nike?
There is a rainbow bridge connecting the Norse realm of the gods to the Norse realm of humans. Can you name all three of these features?
What is Bifrost, Midgard, and Asgard