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HUM 115 Study Guide 1Myths vs Logos - correct answer ✔✔Myth: word, saying or story (story truth)
Logos: word of truth (fact truth)
What is a myth? - correct answer ✔✔Mythos - word or story
comes from Greece
Myth vs Folklore - correct answer ✔✔Myth: sacred, cosmic/social
Folklore: not reason to believe, a legend
Euhemeros said? - correct answer ✔✔myths as creative explanations by "primitive" peoples for events
that they could not understand
Porto-Indo-European language - correct answer ✔✔single ancestor language of India, Southwest Asia,
and Europe.
Herder's Volk - correct answer ✔✔humanity was originally unified and then developed linguistically,
geographically, and culturally separate Volk, which came to be associated with purity, rural culture, and
the science of race.
Who used volk theory? - correct answer ✔✔Nazi
Anthropological approach - correct answer ✔✔relied on field research to observe the function of myth
in the real world
Psychological approach - correct answer ✔✔myths as projections of the unconscious
Sigmund Freud - correct answer ✔✔myths as the conscious mind's strategy for making the unconscious
visible (in censored form)
, Carl Jung - correct answer ✔✔collective unconscious
Joseph Campbell - correct answer ✔✔myths as vehicles through which the individual finds sense of
identity and place in the world
Structuralism - correct answer ✔✔identifying patterns and structures upon which myths are built
holistic approach - correct answer ✔✔it considers historical context, structures, and patterns,
psychological aspects, functions in society, and the particularities of an individual myth.
Cosmogony - correct answer ✔✔"the birth of order"
In the beginning - correct answer ✔✔primeval waters, cosmic egg , infinite chaos
Tipping point: Marta Weigle's classification of creation myths - correct answer ✔✔Accretion, Secretion,
Sacrifice, Division, Earth-diver, Emergence, Two creators, Deus Faber, Ex Nihilo
Accretion - correct answer ✔✔growth or increase, typically by gradual accumulation of layers of matter
or conjunction (joining)
Secretion - correct answer ✔✔Cosmos as resulting from divine bodily emissions
Sacrifice - correct answer ✔✔A god is sacrificed for creative work to succeed
Division - correct answer ✔✔usually a crack in a cosmogonic egg or consummation (completion; often
the marriage of earth and sky)
Earth-Diver - correct answer ✔✔dives below the primeval waters to obtain mud or grains of sand to get
the earth going.
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