Chapter 1- Beginnings and Endings
Myths are based on factual information that actually happened. True or False
False, myths are more like historical fiction.
The culture that told the story of "The Earth on Turtle's Back".
What is Native American?
The main character of "The Coming of Evil".
Who is Pandora?
This was the main conflict of the story.
What was people should live or die forever?
The Norse deceiver who played several roles in the story before dying.
Who is Loki?
The character that was created in the wake of the nuclear bombs that were dropped on Japan in 1954.
Who is Godzilla?
This was the element that the world was made of before the Earth existed.
What is water?
The brother of Prometheus who was married to the main character of "The Coming of Evil".
Who is Epimetheus?
This is the type of myth that "It is Better to Die Forever" would be.
What is a creation myth?
The all-father in the story who perished in battle along with his other sons.
Who is Odin?
These were invented by a New York restaurant owner as he was angry with a customer complaining about soggy French fries.
What potato chips?
(Choose one) The animals who tried and failed to get the life seed from the depths of the sea.
What is the duck, the beaver and the loon?
The item that contained all of the grief and hardships of the human race.
What was Pandora's box?
The re-teller, or modern author, of "It is Better to Die Forever".
Who is Chewing Blackbones?
The name of the wolf who attacked many Asgardians and devoured the Sun.
Who is Fenris?
These tales are just as relevant to people today as they were when they were written, if the symbolism is used, and not taken literally.
What are Myths and Folk Tales?
The landmass that spread from the turtle's back.
What is the Earth?
The mental condition that the contents of the box represented.
What is depression?
Who are Old Man and Old Woman?
The lone survivor of the war that sparked new life at the end of the story.
What is the World Tree?
The simple questioning words that myths were written to explain.
What are Why and How?
The heroine of the story who brought up the seeds from the depths of the sea and left her footprint on the turtles back.
Who was the Muskrat?
The symbolic event that I told you was the same as the main idea in this story.
What is Eve biting the Fruit of Knowledge?
This was thrown in the water and it floated, which meant that people would die forever.
What is a buffalo chip?
The Norse God of Thunder who dies of a bite from a venomous bite.
Who is Thor?