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Clt 3378mythology - correct answer ✔the study of myths
myth - correct answer ✔A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes,
told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.
-a religion
comparative mythology - correct answer ✔the comparison of myths from
different cultures in an attempt to identify shared themes and characteristics
Metaphor - correct answer ✔What is myth related to?
Plato - correct answer ✔Who was one of the first to question mythology
Different types of myths - correct answer ✔Creation
Hero
Trickster
Afterlife
Apocalyptic
Creation myths - correct answer ✔Myths that tell of how the world and
human beings came to exist
Hero myths - correct answer ✔A common theme found in myths worldwide
centered around the hero's journey or monomyth .
, Trickster myths - correct answer ✔Folktales featuring an animal or human
who engages in violent and magic (often mythic) explaining features of the
world
Often involves someone good and evil but not one or other
Afterlife Myth - correct answer ✔Explains after life
Apocalyptic myth - correct answer ✔how gods level destruction on humans
because one or more humans have offended the gods
Mythos - correct answer ✔Greek word for word, speech, tale, or story
Succession myths - correct answer ✔How a god overcame another to
become king
combat myth - correct answer ✔how a god (often the storm god) or a hero
battles/defeats a monstrous enemy
divine council myth - correct answer ✔how two or more gods meet to discuss
the fate of one or more humans (i.e., whether the gods will help or harm that
human)
katabosis myth - correct answer ✔Descent myth, hero travels to underworld
Etiology - correct answer ✔Cause or reason for something
collective unconscious - correct answer ✔Tendencies that form as motifs or
themed common to individual dreams and tribal myths
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