Instructional Video-Mythology

Transcript

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Hello Class!

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November 1 2021

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Table of Contents: -Background

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-Greek Mythology

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-Polynesian Mythology

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-Homework

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What is mythology?

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my-thol-o-gy noun a collection of myths especially one belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.

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What do you know about mythology?

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Popular Mythologies that you probably heard of:

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*varies from culture to culture, but has similar characters.

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Greek/ Roman Mythology*

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Norse Mythology

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Egyptian Mythology

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Some not so familiar mythologies:

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*varies from culture to culture, but has similar characters.

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Polynesian mythology*

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Russian mythology

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Japanese mythology

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1.Greek Mythology

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The creation of the world through the eyes of the ancient Greeks and Romans

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The creation myth of Greek mythology brings in the heavenly bodies. The world begins from chaos.

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Out of the chaos four beings emerge. Eros god of love and reproduction. Gaia is the earth and with help from Eros the world became habitable. Tartarus is the opposite of Gaia and is the embodiment of death. Nyx is the darkness that surrounds the world.

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The Greek/Roman Pantheon

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1.Zeus/Jupiter: son of Rhea and Chronos. King of the Gods. God of the sky

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2.Hera/Juno: daughter of Rhea and Chronos. Queen of the Gods. Goddess of marriage.

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3.Poseidon/Neptune: son of Rhea and Chronos. God of the sea.

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4.Hades/Pluto: son of Rhea and Chronos.  God of the Underworld.

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5.Demeter/Ceres: daughter of Rhea and Chronos. Goddess of nature.

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6.Hestia/Vesta: daughter of Rhea and Chronos. Goddess of the hearth. (She warms the hearth of Olympus and is technically not apart of the Pantheon.)

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7.Aphrodite/Venus: daughter of  Uranus and adamantine sickle.  Goddess of love.

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8.Athena/Minerva: daughter of Zeus and Metis. Goddess of War and Reason.

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9.Apollo*: son of Zeus and Leto. (*Apollo has the same name in both cultures) God of Prophecy, Healing, and Music. Twin of Artemis.

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10.Artemes/Diana: daughter of Zeus and Leto. Goddess of the Hunt and of all wild things. Twin of Apollo.

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11.Ares/Mars: son of Zeus and Hera. God of Battle.

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12.Hephaestus/Vulcan: son of Hera. God of craftsmen.

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13.Hermes/Mercury: son of Zeus and Mala. Messenger of the Gods.

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14.Dionysus/Bacchus: son of Zeus and Semele. God of wine.

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These myths have guided us for thousands of years.

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Our planets are named after them.

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Our governments are based on their ideals.

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The reasons that most of the Western World has  these ties is that the Ancient Greeks and Romans wrote their stories down, people found these  documents, and they had permanent markers on the regions they inhabited.

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End of Part 1