fire and society
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 society | social groups whose members develope relationships with one another |
| culture | knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knwledge to future generations |
| myth | a traditional storey of historical events that that explains or practices beliefs or natural phenominon, a sacred narrative, |
| myth | considered to be true in the sociert they are made up in. |
| 4 major functions of myth | mysitcal, cosmological, sociological, pedagogical |
| mystical | the awe and mystery of life, one of the major funtions of myth |
| cosmological | showing the nature of things, one of the major funtions of myth |
| sociological | Supporting and validating a certain social order, one of the major funtions of myth |
| pedagogical | instructing how to live a human lifetime under any circumstances.teachings, one of the major funtions of myth |
| functions of fire in myth | heat, light, cooking.....craftsmanship.....home hearth and community.....rebirth recylce |
| south africa | relationship between man and animal |
| brazil | jaguar/man, cooking meat |
| native american | firemonster...cayote, squierl, chipmunk, frog, thrown into woods. |
| ancient greece | prmethius saves man kind by steeling fire from zues, giving fire to man, destroys the ability for man and animals to speak. |
| hawaii | godess pele, kilaue volcano, she is said to be a beautiful woman but with a fiery temper |
| iceland, north atlantic | norse god of smiths, BRUTAL, kinda captures maime and makes him slave son of king steels gold king beheads his own sun then seduces daughter |
| pheonix | every 500 years pheonix burst into flames |
| ancient romans | god of vulcan, fource located below mnt ecna |
| 4- 4.5 billion years old | EARTH AGE |
| fires age | 1.4 million years old |
| our climate has been how it is today for around ___________ years | 10,000 |
| 500,000- 300,000 years ago | fire was used for cooking |
| modern oxygen has existed for_______years | 150 million years |
| 2 billion years ago _____ was found on planet earth | oxygen |
| MATCH | 1826, england, john walker |
| lightning | 1/4 strikes earth, out of that 1/5 start a fire. |
| first fire | types/ patterns/ size of fuels occuring in natural landscape |
| second fire | intenitially using fire. |
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