UNIT 1 | TERMS
a story that explains the relationships between gods and creatures in a system of mythology
What is THEOGENIC MYTH
"In the beginning, everything was chaos, and the universe was a big black egg, with Pan Gu inside it. After 18,000 years, Pan Gu awoke and wanted to leave the egg. He cracked open the egg with an ax.
The story of Pan Gu can be considered a...
What is a CREATION MYTH?
A fable normally has the moral or lesson written as a single sentence ______________.
What is the END of the fable.
According to Egyptian mythology, what was a person's heart weighed against in the judgment process?
What is A FEATHER?
In Greek mythology, the entrance to the underworld was guarded by this animal. It prevented the dead from escaping Hades.
What is CERBERUS?
a story that explains a particular phenomenon in the natural world
What is a NATURE MYTH
He agreed that Persephone could be released from the underworld in the spring, but at harvest time, she would have to return to the underworld. Demeter was so happy to have her daughter back in the spring that she cared for the earth, and everything blossomed. At the harvest, however, she was saddened, and once again neglected the earth. The earth is cold and dark in the winter because Persephone is in the underworld."
The story of Persephone can be considered a
What is a NATURE myth?
In today's world where attention span is shorter than ever, the
_______ and _________ nature of fables makes them very appealing to kids, especially emerging readers who can completely read one and sometimes three or four stories during a single reading session.
What is CONCISE & TARGETED?
Where did the idea of the "monomyth" or the hero's journey come from?
Who is JOSEPH CAMPBELL?
How do Odysseus and his remaining men escape the Cyclops's cave?
a story that explains how the world came to exist
What is CREATION MYTH
refers to the stories a group passes down orally
What is FOLKLORE
A Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables portrayed by animal characters.
Who is Aesop?
Where does a hero's journey start?
What is in the ORDINARY WORLD?
What form does Loki take to get Queen Frigg to reveal what vow was not made on behalf of Baldur.
What is an OLD WOMAN?
story that is shared by a group of people who have a culture in common
What is a MYTH
a story based on a real mortal human who lived in a real time in history
What is a LEGEND ?
When people in a culture become ______________, they write down their origin stories. But the stories frequently go back way before written records, to when people told them aloud.
What is LITERATE?
This famous psychiatrist thought that humans share a common collective unconscious, which explains the similarities found in myths from around the world.
Who is CARL JUNG?
In the story of Loki and the Mistletoe, what was Baldur plagued by?
What is gruesome visions foretelling his own imminent death?
a collection of stories that form a system that a culture lives according to
What is MYTHOLOGY
a story passed down through generations; no one knows who wrote it
What is a FOLKTALE?
Some origin stories are based on real people and events, while others are based on more ______________ accounts
What is IMAGINATIVE?
As humans settled into permanent societies, they relied on this type of animal to to help work the land and for companionship.
What is DOMESTICATED?
_______ and the gods dragged Loki to a cave and bound him with a poisonous serpent for the rest of his days.
Who is THOR?