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The Subcategory Of Creation Myths

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Creation myths, one of the most prevalent and enduring archetypes in world mythology, offer profound insights into how different cultures have grappled with the fundamental question of human origins and the creation of the world. These myths serve as foundational narratives that shape a culture's understanding of its place in the cosmos and its relationship with the divine. This paper delves into the creation of man, a subcategory of creation myths, as presented in the mythologies of two distinct cultures - Korean and Norse.

The Korean creation of man myth is multifaceted, known by various names, including Dangun, The Bear and the Tiger, Hwanin and Hwanung, and The Sons of Heaven and Earth. At its core, this myth centers around the figure of Dangun, a legendary figure in Korean mythology, who is believed to have founded the first Korean kingdom, Gojoseon (Joseon). The tale unfolds as Hwanung, the son of Hwanin, the ruler of the Celestial Realm, descends to Earth and establishes a divine kingdom at Mount Taebaek. The transformation of a bear into a woman, Ungnyeo, and the subsequent birth of Dangun mark the inception of the human lineage and the establishment of Gojoseon as a sacred kingdom. …show more content…

From this tumultuous interplay emerges Ymir, the progenitor of the giants. Following a lineage of gods, Odin, Vili, and Vé, decide to shape the world and its inhabitants. By bestowing life upon two pieces of driftwood - an ash tree and an elm tree - they bring forth the first human couple, Ask and Embla. With breath, consciousness, and physical form endowed by the gods, Ask and Embla become the ancestors of humanity, firmly connecting mortals to the divine beings who fashioned their

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Anthony Pellegrino Professor Schoolcraft LIT-229 World Mythology 30 July 2023 Milestone Three There are many theories on how myths spread and preserve their cultural significance throughout generations, two examples of these theories are dispersion theory and the theory of collective unconscious. Dispersion theory is a belief that some of the original themes and archetypes of myths were made by one culture an incredibly long time ago and was spread as the culture emigrated throughout generations. Collective unconscious is a theory that states there is a segment of the unconscious mind within all humanity that shares ancestral memories and experiences. Both theories can be applied to give us a further understanding of myths. Dispersion

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There are many creation myths and not all are the same but many share some similarities, they are called motifs, but how many myths share three well known motifs? It is a very amazing thing that all of these different people shared some of the same ideas on how their people were started and some of them were oceans apart. It is a curious thing and also cool seeing how all of them thought the same thing. The three motifs that I am going to go over are the motif of people being made out of organic materials, the earth being made from objects, like body parts or objects, and the motif of there being a great flood that almost wiped out all humans on Earth.

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Creation Myth Busters Humans naturally wonder how the earth came to be. The answer to this monumental mystery varies depending upon location and belief system. Groups of people come up with myths to explain the beginning of the natural world. A specific type of myth is a creation myth.

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Straight from the heart is a wonderful, but depressing passage narrated by a journalist named Tim Collins. The passage is about the tragic speech spoken by Marie Fatayi- Williams and the terroristic incident that lead to the possible killing of her son Anthony Fatayi- Williams. Marie’s speech is fueled by a couple different topics, which in their entirety explain how she feels about the loss of her son to be a traumatic event. These topics make the speech very powerful and meaningful to the audience according to Collins. The narration is primarily to explain why Marias speech is so powerful and why it inspired and touched so many people’s hearts, while Marie defies the pointlessness of terroristic acts followed by the tragedy.

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Within every myth, there is a task or quest for someone to overcome. Although every myth doesn’t have a villain, who attempts to prevent the completion of the task, there is, however, always a heroic figure in these myths. These quests help portray each culture’s beliefs and values. Therefore, in order to identify the beliefs and values of the Mongolian culture, one must analyze both the hero and the quest in the Mongolian myth “Geser Comes Down Earth.” In the Mongolian myth “Geser Comes Down Earth,” there is a quest presented throughout most of the story, for which only a hero can complete.

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Motifs in Creation Myths There are many different motifs in creation myths. Creation myths can be so similar but so different at the same time. As I studied through the different creation myths I noticed that some might use organic materials to make humans or some might have one creator and another have 2 creators or some might even create humans for the same reason(s). Regardless of the similarities and differences, each creation myth is unique in its own special way. All together, almost every creation myth the creators are trying to reach the same end goal.

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The most important way to think about myths is that they are symbolic stories that attempt to answer difficult human questions about the universe. For instance, where did we and the world come from? And what is the meaning of life?. “We all want to know where we came from, but because our earliest beginnings are lost in the mists of prehistory, we have created myths about our forefathers that are not historical but help to explain current attitudes about our environment, neighbors and customs” (6). Myth functions as a guidance that explains everything that we come into contact with in the universe.

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1. What phenomenon or practice does each story seek to explain? Pay close attention to the power relationships. Each study seeks to explain origin myth and creation myths. For instance, in the story titled, How the World was made discusses about how the world was constructed, how it began, and how people first came to inhabit it which is a origin myth..

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Cole and Ortega’s The Thinking Past is a book that covers the history of humans and civilization. The authors cover the transition of humans from a hunter-gatherer life into a sedentary life, forming the civilizations we know today. This transition can be witnessed through the character, Enkidu, in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Enkidu—a glorified forager—is created by the gods to keep the King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, in check.

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Grant Williams Motif Essay Mythology Apr 5, 2023 Important Creation Myths I think there are many important motifs in all of the different creation myths that we studied this semester. There were many different motifs that I could have used but I picked the ones that I felt were most important to the creation of Earth and life. One of the motifs I picked was about how the gods worked so hard and struggled to create Humans and Earth as we know it today. Another motif I chose was humans being killed off by the gods.

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Each every creation myth is unique in its own way. Of course, creation myths have their similarities, but each of them has at least one detail that separates them from every other myth. The question is how those similarities came about, considering for some of these groups that didn’t even know that each other existed. It would have nearly impossible and extremely unlikely for them to communicate with each other let alone, share their stories with each other. Yet, despite this there are some extremely common themes and events throughout these myths.

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There are hundreds of motifs scattered throughout the world about many vastly different creation myths. There are some myths linked with only a few motifs, and they originated from the same continent. Then there are also myths which originated from the other side of the world and share so many motifs one would think they were just a hundred miles away. With so many different motifs, it remains unclear and unproven as to how so many different cultures can share the same theory about how Earth and humans were created. Although there are so many fascinating motifs about the creation of the world and everything on it, I believe these three are the most common motifs shared by creation myths: nothingness (chaos) in the beginning of time, humans

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Al-Anon is a world-wide fellowship 12 steps program and the counterpart to Alcoholics Anonymous that was found in 1951; Al-Anon states that they are not affiliated nor: “Al-Anon is allied with any sect, denomination, political party organization, or institution; does not engage in any controversy, neither endorses nor opposes any cause. There are no dues for membership. Al-Anon is self-supporting through its own voluntary contributions. (Welcome to Al-Anon, n.d.).” The 12 step program serves as a self-help support group based on a spiritual foundation.

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Floating about in all types of literature, there are many legends as to how the earth was created; these legends are known as creation myths. A creation myth offers answers to questions that ask how the earth was created, and explains the social customs of today as well as the workings of the natural world by telling an elaborate story. The Cherokee Indians have spread their beliefs on this topic throughout generations through oral tradition. Recent authors have taken these myths to paper to preserve history and to spread them even further around the world. “How the World Was Made” is a creation myth that not only offers an abundance of information regarding the origin of earth, but also supports the social traditions of today’s society and attempts to explain the intangible, natural workings of the world.

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Many different cultures have myths and stories about how they think the world was created. These myths commonly reflect different values that these cultures have. Although these myths are different stories from different cultures, they often have traits in common. The creation myths from the Iroquois and the African Bushmen are similar because they both are about creation and they share many elements, but there are also differences in the stories because they are different myths from different cultures.

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