Essay About Creation, Love and Underworld Myths
Directions: Answer each of the following questions in two-to-four complete sentences. Be sure to explain key terms. Type your answers and submit them as a pdf or Word file on Canvas.
What are the two main types of creation myths?
What does each type tend to indicate about a culture’s point of view toward life.
What is a “holy canon?” How do such canons get formed?
In love myths, what is the purpose of a lover going through a difficult ordeal or challenge?
In “The Rules of Attraction,” what is “reciprocity?”
In “The Rules of Attraction,” what is the “matching hypothesis?”
What chemical has a role in bonding mother to child during breast feeding and even possibly lovers to each other during sex?
What does an underworld that is hard to get to and hard to get back from tend to indicate about a culture’s view of the living and the dead?
If an underworld closely resembles the living world, what does that tend to indicate about a culture’s attitude?
What does a suicide in an underworld story usually emphasize?
What are the two main types of creation myths?
The two main types of creation myths are evolutionary creation myths and devolutionary creation myths. Evolutionary creation myths show an evolution, or improvement in stages in the story of the process of creation and what are created. That is, from a state of chaos or neutrality towards a better, more organized or ordered state of creation. On the other hand, devolutionary creation myths show a devolution, degradation, decline, or turning for the worse in stages in the story or process of creation and what are created. That is, from a perfect or good state, towards a state of chaos or negativity.
