Who am I? How much control do I have over my my own life? What must I do in order to survive? How can I lead a satisfying life?
2. Four themes of myths:
The first "parents" were gods of sky and Earth, the creator god usually fashions the first human beings from a part of the earth, the gods destroy one world of mortals by a flood, the hero's have an unusual birth and death.
3. The beginning of the universe was filled with chaos.Because of this, the Gods separates everything and gives a section of the earth to each god.
4. Hero myths and epics teach members of society the appropriate behavior, attitudes, and values of that culture.
5. Ordinary people identify with heroes because heroes have weaknesses/imperfections that humans can relate to..
6. The foundation of the Matriarchal Society was the agriculture.
7. Sigmund Freud's view of myths is that myths are the expression of the individual's unconscious wishes, fears, and drives that can not be preformed in reality.
8. Myths demonstrate that people possess the intellectual capacity to understand the world in which they live in.
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