Myth Mid Term
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- Anthropomorphic
- ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human
- Apotropaic
- Intended to ward off evil
- Autochthonous
- Indigenous; native to a particular place
- Cosmogony
- story of the genesis and development of the universe or solar system
- Cosmology
- Similar to cosmogony but with less emphasis on creation or origins and more on the study of how the universe works now
- Chthonic
- Deities, spirits, and other beings dwelling under the earth.
- Ennead
- A group of nine persons
- Eponymous
- Giving one’s name to a tribe, place, etc
- Etiology
- The study of causes, causations, or reasons for being
- Etymology
- The study of words origins and derivation.
- Metaphor
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A word or phrase is taken out of its normal context and placed within the
parameters of another context - Symbolism
- A concrete object is taken and used as something different.
- Monotheism
- The belief in one god
- Henotheism
- belief in one god without denying the existence of other gods
- Atheism
- The belief in no god
- Polytheism
- The belief in multiple gods
- Myth
- Traditional stories a society tells itself that encode or represent the world-view, beliefs, principles, and often fears of that society.
- Legend
- traditional stories rooted in historical fact
- Folktale
- stories that are primarily entertaining that often involve clever animals with human-like characteristics
- Mythology
- The study of myths
- Personification
- An inanimate object takes on the qualities and characteristics of a human being.
- Syncretism
- a blending of religions to create a new religion
- Theogony
- An account of the origins of the gods.
- Theophany
- An appearance of a god man (usually in non-anthropomorphic form)
- Therianthropic
- Being partly bestial and partly human in form
- Theriomorphic
- In form of a beast
- Wordplay
- Pun, assonance, onomatopoeia, alliteration, etc found in myths (sometimes lost in the translation to English)
- Bildungsruman
- Story where the main character matures.
- Entwicklungsruman
- Story where main character matures and is aware of it
- Shoudin Freud
- Laughter at someone else’s expensive
- Peripeteia
- Best describes character’s unexpected turn of events.
- Pyrrhic Victory
- Victory at great cost
- Kenning
- hints at setting
- Social Context
- reflects how the people around something use and interpret it.
- Social Text
- is a postmodernist cultural studies journal published by Duke University Press.
- Accertion (or Conjunction)
- Elements mix together and form earth
- Secretion
- Creation based on bodily fluids
- Sacrifice Stories
- Death of deity creates a new world
- Division (or Consumation)
- Egg appears giving birth to god
- Earth-Diver
- Earth is nothing but water then life/land is created
- Emergence
- World created thru progressions of previous population
- 2 Creaters
- Create world thru compassion or coopertaion
- Deus Faber (God Maker)
- God progressively creates human/life/etc.
- Oral
- Spoken
- Material
- Décor, Jewelry, etc.
- Behavioral/Cogitative
- Rituals, etc.
- Female
- Being the sex that bears young and produces eggs
- Feminine
- characteristics of or appropriate or unique to women
- Essentialism
- an educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods.
- Sexism
- prejudice or discrimination based on sex
- Patriarchy
- control by men of a disproportionately large share of power
- Feminism 1
- The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes
- Feminism
- Organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interest.
- Thomas
- coined the term Folklore
- Sir James
- Wrote Golden Book
- Freud
- The same myths are present in different culture. Everything is primarily sexual
- Jung
- Archetypes are in every culture’s mythology. The unconscious is divided by the unconscious of the individual and human race. The latter creates archetypes
- Vladimir
- Baskin Robin’s 31 flavors.
- Strauss
- driving force behind all myths is mediation between opposites. Individuals stories mean nothing but collectively they mean everything. Myths can be broken down in to mythemes.
- Campbell
- All myths are versions of the monomyth, which ultimately contains the one universal truth.
- Burkert
- Myth have roots in biological changes. Studies rituals associated with biological rites of passage.
- Rank
- Myths dealt with birth canal and coming to term with imperfect parents