Cosmic Myth Essay

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University of Phoenix Material Cosmic Myth Worksheet Choose two myths from each of the following myth categories: creation, flood, afterlife, and apocalypse. Answer the following questions for all eight myths. Creation Myths |Myth 1: Genesis |Religion or culture of origin: Hebrew | |Myth 2: Spider Woman |Religion or culture of origin: Hopi | • Who created the world? o Myth 1:God o Myth 2: Tawa and Spider Woman • Who were the main characters involved? What was the process? o Myth 1: God. In the myth of Genesis, God commanded and it happened, he said “Let there be light: and there was light” (Leeming,1990, p. 41), God said let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so” (Leeming,1990, p. 42). God created the sky, sea, land, vegetation, animals, and so forth by utter the command, and his will was done. o Myth 2: There was no one greater than Tawa and Spider Woman, “there was no living thing “until these Two willed it to be” (Leeman, 2009, p. 37). One day Tawa and Spider Woman had a great thought, to create the earth which would be between the above and below. Tawa and Spider woman then sang the “first magic song”; Tawa had a thought and Spider Woman began bringing his thought to life. They sang into existence birds, beasts and fish; while singing Spider Woman formed these creature from clay (Leeming, 2009, p. 37).The creature did not move at first so they put a blanket over them and said an incantation and soon they moved (Leeming, 2009, p. 37). • What was the motivation to create the world? o Myth 1: Genesis doesn’t give an exact motivation as to why he crated the world, the myth says that “In
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