Mythology, Legends, and Folklore

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Mythology, Legends, and Folklore

• TAKE NOTES!

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Mythology

• What is mythology?
• Mythology is the study of myths.
• What are myths?
• Traditional stories of a culture to explain its
  historical events, practices, beliefs, and/or
  natural phenomenons.

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Legends

• What are legends?
• Popular stories that are passed down from one
  generation to the next.
• They are regarded as historical, but can not be
  verified that they actually happened.

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Folklore

• What makes up folklore?
• Folklore is a cultures folktales.
• What are folktales?
• Stories that are timeless and placeless among a
  culture- they usually teach a lesson.

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How?

• All myths, legends, and folktales have been
  around for generations, even before the written
  language came. How?
• Oral Tradition
• Passed down from generation to generation by
  telling the stories/word of mouth.

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Assignment

• Read RWL (Readings in World Lit) with study guide
  questions
• Pgs 3-6 (African myth)
• Pgs 42-47 (Japanese folktale)
• Pgs 48-56 (Irish legend)
• DO NOT FORGET TO READ THE OPENING PARAGRAPHS!

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Creation, Flood, and Differences Myths

• Many cultures have their own version of creation
  and flood myths. They also have myths to explain
  why we are different from one another.
• Archeologists discovered that there was truly a
  flood that occurred in the Middle East many years
  ago. They discovered this from the layers of
  sediment they found in the earth.
• There are many similarities between creation and
  flood myths in each culture.

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Creation and Flood Myths

• Jews, Muslims, and Christians all share the
  stories of the Christian Old Testament.
• There are different variations for each religion,
  but same type of info.
• Judaism- Tanakh
• Torah, Neviim, Ketuvim
• Islam- Koran
• Christian- Old Testament

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God/Allah

• Hagar----affair----Abraham----married----Sarai/Sar
  ah
• (Judaism)
• Ishmael Issac
• Muhammed (Angel Gabriel) Joseph (Angel
  Gabriel)
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  Jesus
• (Islam)
  (Christianity)

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Reading Assignments WITH Study Guide Questions!!

• In-Class reading American Lit Textbooks
  (Creation)
• In-Class reading handout (Differences)
• Green Textbooks
• Gilgamesh pgs 8, 12-15 (Flood)
• The Old Testament pgs 22-26 (Creation)
• RWL
• The Great Flood pgs 7-9 (Flood)
• Handouts
• Chinese (Creation AND Flood)
• Noahs Ark (Flood)
• The Tower of Babylon (Differences)

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Sources

• The Holy Scriptures The Tanakh. 2008. 21 Aug
  2008 lthttp//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/
  Bible/jpstoc.htmlgt.
• Ham, Alyce. Telephone. 21 Aug 2008.
• Merriam-Websters Collegiate Dictionary 10th Ed.
  Springfield, MA Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2001.
• Mnayer, Maggie. Person to Person. 21 Aug 2008.