Mythology Terms (9/6/12)
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kaylaevans on September 4, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Myth | A traditional story that forms the world view of a culture |
| World View | the way that a culture is programmed to see reality |
| Archetype | repeated pattern |
| Motif | repeated pattern |
| animism | belief that things other than humans have souls |
| folktale | a non-religious story told for entertainment value. Everyone can tell one. |
| Origin Myth | tells how things are created. Answer key questions ("border-guard" questions) |
| Pantheon | a group of gods |
| Monotheism | belief in one god |
| Polytheism | belief in more than one god |
| Trickster | archetyped character that rebels against authority, often causes chaos (which causes change) |
| Elementary Idea(r) | basic human question |
| Ethnic Idea(r) | Answers elementary idea(r)s of each culture |
| Diffusion | one idea(r) that spreads and changes |
| Parallelism | separate stories that happen to be very similar |
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