Creators
Vocabulary
Characters
Creation Story
Functions of Myths
100
Tiamet
Who is the first (female) creator in the Enuma Elish?
100
Primordial
What is the earliest stage of development of organism - what happens first in a sequence of events related the creation?
100
Cyclops
Who is one of the triplets born to Uranus and Gaea who had one eye in the center of his forehead?
100
Theogony
What is the Greek creation story?
100
land formations, bodies of water, etc.
What is a natural phenomena?
200
Ymir
Whose body was used to make up the earth and sky in the Norse creation story?
200
Abyss
What is an immeasurably profound depth or void - primeval chaos?
200
Marduk
Who is an offspring of Tiamet and Apsu, who becomes so powerful he kills them and uses Tiamet's body to make the earth and heavens?
200
Elder Eddas
What is the Norse creation story?
200
people believe in marriage
What is a social/cultural custom (shown in Loowit)?
300
Uranus and Gaea
Who are mother earth and father heavens in the Greek theogony story?
300
Disgorge
What is to vomit from the throat or stomach, spew?
300
Coyote
Who taught bear a lesson for being too vain and conceited?
300
Rig Veda
What is Hindu creation story?
300
don't be vain
What is a moral/lesson from the Bear story
400
"The One"
Who is the creator in the Rig Veda hindu story?
400
Chaos
What is great disorder or a disorderly mass, confusion or a jumble?
400
Raven
Who is the shape-changer trickster of Northwest Native American mythology?
400
Genesis
What is the Judeo/Christian creation story?
400
the function in "How the Raven Made the Tides"
What is a moral/lesson?
500
Old Man
Who is the creator in the Blackfeet Genesis?
500
Sage
Who is someone with experience, judgment and wisdom?
500
Loowitt
Who was the beautiful fire-keeper who was turned into Mount St. Helens?
500
Enuma Elish
What is Mesopotamian creation story?
500
4 function of the myth
What are natural phenomena, moral/lesson, explain cultural/social custom, sense of awe?
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