Sunday, September 13, 2009

Homework due Tuesday 9/15/09

1. Please read pp. 65-77 in Mythology.

2. Write your summary OR claim OR discussion, depending on how far we get in class.
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  1. UnknownSeptember 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM

    This is for the homework due Wednesday:

    There are some very small simalarites to the bible and the mythology. For example: How the world was a dark abyss of nothing. however in teh bible it says god created the heaven and the earth when in the book it says that heaven and the earth created the gods, and then the gods created diffrent parts of the world. In the bible god does everthing- This is a very general stament I just thought it was interesting.

    -Audrey Emerson

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2009 at 8:22 AM

    Like Audrey mentioned, i noticed that in both the Mythology book and the Bible the world began with blackness and then suddenly appeared. Though in the Bible the earth forms at Gods command and in Mythology it just appears. Another similarity that i found was how in both books there are two living beings, one male and one female, that begin the cycle of life on earth.

    -Erin Moody

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2009 at 9:03 AM

    Adding on tho that, the contrasting beliefs in the book of Genesis and mythology have to do with different creation processes. In Genesis, God creates the world in different parts. These parts in Genesis would be refered to as Titans in mythology. For example, Genesis states that God created the ocean, sky, land, etc. The Titans in mythology are more like actual characters, being the ultimate Gods of the world. They did come before the other Gods, so in that sense, there is a connection to Genesis, which implies that the first things to be created were the ocean, sky, and land. Then when people came in Genesis, they had a close connection to God. In mythology, the people relied on the Titans and Gods for them to live. So both of the creation processes in the Bible and mythology differ based on the characteristic aspects, but all came from the same idea of one ultimate source, and then adding more on to the creation being Gods, people, and so on.
    -Maddie Adams

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  4. Chelsea KimSeptember 15, 2009 at 11:55 AM

    It’s very intriguing to see how the first humans created were actually pure, but then became evil. In the Greek Mythology, in one edition of the creation story, the gods first created the golden race, who were “without sorrow of heart, far from toil and pain.” (p.71-72). Adam and Eve in the Bible, also, were pure from the knowledge of evil to the extent of not feeling ashamed of their nakedness. Both stories tell that these “good” human races downsloped to inferiority, but how they became so is different. The golden race was destroyed experimentally by the gods who created them, thus creating a less-quality silver race, but Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden and of their innocence by their own wrongdoings.

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  5. UnknownSeptember 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM

    I found it interesting that the stories of the first woman in both religions are so similar. In both the Bible and Greek Mythology, the first woman (Eve, or in Mythology, Pandora)is given something by god(or the gods) that she is forbade to know (in the Bible,the fruit of the tree, in Mythology, Pandora's box). In both stories, curiosity gets the better of them, and they do what they are told not to do by the gods. Also, in both stories by opening or eating that what they were told not to, they unleash something previously unknown to people, in Eve's case, the knowledge that they were naked, in Pandora's case, she lets hope into the world. However, in the process both unleash something that people would have been better off without(Eve= pain in childbirth, Pandora= sorrows and mischief for all mankind)

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  6. UnknownSeptember 15, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    I have read. -Audrey

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