CLSC 101 Midterm
"Old wine in new bottles" ANS✔✔ New interpretations for old ideas
Control ANS✔✔ Overrides our being - we need control over our environments
A standard of myth and human life - the struggle for control
Constructs ANS✔✔ Anything woven or built to be in control and maneuver
Myth ANS✔✔ Traditional story usually focused on deeds of gods or heroes often to explain natural
phenomenon and is felt to express significant truths about human life and nature
Gives meaning and direction to our fears, memories and hopes
Something that never was but always is
Anthropomorphism ANS✔✔ To give human characteristics to something
Zoomorphism ANS✔✔ To give animal characteristics to something
Humanist revolution ANS✔✔ Focus switches from gods to us - put gods in the back seat
If we understand, we can control - we control our own destiny
Legend ANS✔✔ Involves humans - identifies a group
Folklore ANS✔✔ Talk about the culture as a whole - anonymous
Fairytale ANS✔✔ A guide through stages of life - explicit author
Gilgamesh ANS✔✔ Know Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Ishtar, and Utnapishtim
, Chaos ANS✔✔ Neuter or disarray
Originally meant chasm or disorder, gaping jaws, yawn
Thing that came into being just falling out
Gaea ANS✔✔ Concept of earth - feminine
Tartarus ANS✔✔ Concept of lowest part of the underworld and the abyss - masculine, feminine
and neuter
Eros ANS✔✔ Concept of the creative spark or change - masculine
Parthenogenesis ANS✔✔ Reproduce on your own - virgin beginning
Cronus and Gaea's revenge on Uranus ANS✔✔ Cuts of Uranus' genitals which fall into the sea
Produces the Giants, the Furies and Aphrodite - vengeful creatures
Aphrodite ANS✔✔ Concept of human sexual attraction and beauty
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