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mtu mythology Questions and Answers What was significant about caves for homo sapiens? They constituted a site wherein sacred rituals were performed that expanded consciousness and the limits of physical reality The cave for Paleo man would be as ______________ for modern man? a religous ...

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mtu mythology Questions and Answers

What was significant about caves for homo sapiens? - answer They constituted a
site wherein sacred rituals were performed that expanded consciousness and the limits
of physical reality

The cave for Paleo man would be as ______________ for modern man? - answer a
religous building

The film by Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, follows a group of scientists as
they investigate the interior of a cave used by homo sapiens... - answer 30000 years
ago.

What is significant about the findings in Chauvet cave? - answer They suggest that
early man bore a consciousness that believed it could exceed its physicality, existing in
realms or dimensions beyond his physical world.

Man's consciousness might be predisposed to myths as a response to awareness of his
condition. The condition that all humans share regardless of gender, culture or
geography is... - answer Transiency or mortality.

Which of the following is evidence that contemporary man continues to respond to
myth? - answer We continue to apply the notion of the hero to describe events like a
pilot landing a plane safely in a river.

If a story states that a historical figure acted in ways that exceed common man's
abilities, then we might conclude that this person is... - answer Legendary

Fairy tales and folktales contain fantastical elements but fairy tales are for... - answer
Children

Myths are often believed to be false stories but this is incorrect. Mythical stories can
embody eternal values and they can also be scientifically correct. An example of this
would be... - answer The Greek god, Ouranos, personifies the fact that there actual
exists a sky above us.

Martha Graham believes that people recognize the structure, characters or feel of a
myth because humans have something called... - answer Common sense/a
subconsous mind

According to scholars, myth provides us with... - answer A meaningful existence.

, The stories that occupy myth are primarily concerned with... - answer Man and the
gods or God or the supernatural.

In myth, the cave is an important symbol. What are some of the reasons, discussed in
class, that caves have such important meaning? - answer They represent interiority,
inner exploration, and a deeper understanding of life and the fear of death.

Which of the following represents a metaphor? - answer She is a rose.

Caves are symbolic of many things but mainly they represent... - answer Psychic
Interiority

"Cave men" used caves to... - answer express elements of the sacred through art
and ritual.

The figurine in your podcast that reflects half man/ half lion was located in a cave in
Germany called... - answer Stadel Cave

Figurines that depict the female form from 28,000 BCE often highlight... - answer
exaggerated body parts, like breasts and hips.

The Venus figurines indicate Paleo man had a value for... - answer fertility

A hunter who painted the image of a bull on the walls of a cave might do so because... -
answer It aligns him with the animal whose attributes he wishes to embody.

The Epic of Gilgamesh dates back to about... - answer The first millennium

The story of Gilgamesh would have referred to the Middle East. Around the area of... -
answer iraq

Ishtar is... - answer goddess of love and war

Narrated in the story of Gilgamesh, the walls of Uruk represent... - answer The
values and identity of the Sumerians.

The early characterization of Gilgamesh suggests that while he is part god part man, as
a King, he is... - answer cruel and lacking wisdom

According to the text an appeal was made to the god, ___________, to intervene on
behalf of the people of Uruk. - answer anu

Enkidu runs with the wild animals because... - answer He is innocent and not yet
"civilized" by the prostitute.

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