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What is a myth? What is a legend?

What is a myth? What is a legend?. Language Arts Stripes L. Nabulsi. Legends. Based on historical event Based on real people Oral literature Exaggerated Examples – folk tales and tall tales. Myths. Basis of a system of beliefs Depicts the moral values of a culture

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What is a myth? What is a legend?

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  1. What is a myth?What is a legend? Language Arts Stripes L. Nabulsi

  2. Legends • Based on historical event • Based on real people • Oral literature • Exaggerated • Examples – folk tales and tall tales

  3. Myths • Basis of a system of beliefs • Depicts the moral values of a culture • Defines the needs of a culture • Teaches the morals of a culture To those who believe, it is their religion; to those who do not believe, it is a mythology

  4. TYPES OF MYTHS • CREATION • HEROIC • MORAL • ETIOLOGICAL • DEATH • HISTORICAL

  5. CREATION MYTHSANSWER THESE QUESTIONS • HOW MAN CAME INTO BEING • HOW THE WORLD WAS FORMED • HOW THE UNIVERSE WAS FORMED

  6. TYPES OF CREATION MYTHS • DELUGE ------ FLOOD • EDICT ------ PRONOUNCEMENT • ORDER OUT OF CHAOS --BIG BANG • TRANSFORMATION – CHANGING SHAPE • DISMEMBERMENT – TEARING APART • BIRTH – PARENTS

  7. HEROIC MYTHS • DREAM OF A NATION – TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF THE NATION • DESTINED OR FATED TO BE A HERO • HAS HELP FROM THE GODS • EXAMPLES –Theseus, Jason, Hercules

  8. MORAL MYTHS • TEACH THE VALUES OF THE CULTURE • HUBRIS- TOO MUCH PRIDE, COMPARING SELF TO GOD • FATE – GODS CONTROLLED HUMAN DESTINY • APOLLONIAN – MODERATION • DIONYSIAN - EXTREME

  9. ETIOLOGICAL MYTHS • NON-SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION OF NATURE • WHY SPIDERS SPIN WEBS? • WHY BERRIES TURN FROM WHITE TO RED? ETIOLOGICAL MYTHS CAN ALSO REFLECT A MORAL CONCEPT

  10. DEATH MYTHS • WHY DO PEOPLE DIE? • WHERE DO PEOPLE GO AFTER DEATH? STRUCTURE OF HADES: EREBUS TARTARUS ELYSIAN FIELDS ISLE OF BLESSED

  11. RIVERS OF HADES • Acheron – River of Sadness • Cocytus – River of lamentation • Lethe – River of forgetfulness • Phlegethon – River of fire • Styx – River of hate

  12. CHRONOLOGY OF DEATH • PERSON DIES – BEST WAY TO DIE IS IN BATTLE • BODY WASHED AND COIN PLACED UNDER TONGUE • BODY BURIED OR BURNED • LIBATIONS POURED OVER BODY • HERMES COMES FOR SHADE

  13. JOURNEY TO HADES • HERMES DELIVERS SHADE TO SHORE OF HADES, THE RIVER OF FORGETFULNESS, LETHE • CHARON TAKES COIN TO PAY FOR FERRY ACROSS THE RIVER • CERBERUS, a three headed dog, GUARDS THE GATES OF HADES

  14. JUDGMENT/PLACEMENT • THREE JUDGES, Rhadamanthys, Minos, and Aeacus, DETERMINE WHERE SOUL GOES • GOOD PERSONS GO TO ELYSIAN FIELDS • BAD PERSONS GO TO TARTARUS AND ARE PUNISHED FOR ETERNITY • PERSONS WHO HAVE LED THREE GOOD LIVES CAN GO TO THE ISLE OF BLESSED

  15. HISTORICAL MYTHS • BASED ON REAL BATTLES AND EVENTS • ORAL TRADITION • HOMER – THE BLIND BARD • The Iliad and The Odyssey

  16. The End

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