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Choose 3 from the list:

Does the story reflect or challenge our views of social reality?

What common human experiences are described in the story?

What “lessons” do myths teach to modern readers?

What makes us human? What differences are there in the creation of humans and the creation of animals in the stories?

What cultural values are present in these stories? How do they compare with the cultural values in our world today? (value of human life, value of animal life, value of education, value of romance, value of family, etc.)

Is it possible to create a “perfect” world? Why or why not, according to the creation stories?

Who has the power in the story? What kind of power is it, and how is it used? How does it compare to the possession and use of power today’s societies?

How does the story deal with sexuality and/or gender? If it is different than is typical in our world, how does that difference affect the world and characters in the story? Are gender roles or sexuality seen as inherent traits or as social constructs?

How are human relationships presented in the story? Consider the parent/child relationship, friendships and romantic relationships. Has the way that people relate to each other changed in our world today?

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What common human experiences are described in the story? 

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What common human experiences are described in the story? 

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The Japanese Creation story reflects and describes about emotional experiences that human may feel such as love, hate, or even grief.

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What common human experiences are described in the story?

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What common human experiences are described in the story?

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- The human experience I found is learning. When Sun Mother rested at night, the living creatures/ children feared that Sun Mother would leave them. At the end, they understood and learned that the sun rises and sets. → human nature: humans can learn, understand, and develop their knowledge.

- Freedom → Ex. She called all her creatures to her and instructed them to enjoy the wealth of the earth and to live peacefully with one another > It can be said that humans have freedom to live their lives with fruitfulness around them.

- Emotion > According to the story, it showed many emotions that creatures or maybe humans had experienced. For example, creatures had lived peacefully then they feared of losing Sun Mother. + Creatures were envious ang had arguments when living together. + Sun Mother feared of being angered by Father of All Spirits.

- Humans experience problem > Sun mother found problems when she is not satisfied with the appearance of animals.

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- The story heavily uses the stereotypes of men and women as the main character, Sun mother, does all the work when it comes to the household (earth) and the childrens(human and animal)
- I think gender roles or sexuality are seen as inherent traits more than seen as social construction. I mean if it is in the story. According to the story, personally, I see Father of All Spirits and Sun Mother as a kind of living creatures. I would like to say that they are humans. I think humans, whether they are male or female, each gender has their own instinct that is designed by nature.

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Is it possible to create a “perfect” world?

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Is it possible to create a “perfect” world?

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I think the world in this story is perfect already. As the story is about world creation, the Sun Mother tried to create lives, such as  plants, animals, and humans, so she already fulfilled her mission to create life.

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How does the story deal with sexuality and/ or gender?

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How does the story deal with sexuality and/ or gender?

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The story reflects conventional gender roles and physiological differences. Izanami, the female god, was responsible for reproducing their offspring while Izanagi was responsible for creating lands and seas. This also correlates to the physiological differences between males and females.

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What cultural values are presented in these stories?

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What cultural values are presented in these stories?

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Values that Japanese people hold reflects so much in the story especially loyalty, honesty, and discipline. It still until today that Japanese people hold on to these values. It can be easily seen in their daily life: when they cross the road or when they patiently wait in line.

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What “lessons” do myths teach to modern readers

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What “lessons” do myths teach to modern readers

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There is no equal in the world of humans because in the creation stories of Chinese a goddess created the classes of people from the origin which are aristocrats and common people.

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What common human experiences are described in the story?

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What common human experiences are described in the story?

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In Chinese Creation Story, some common kind of human experiences are found in term of feeling or emotion. It is clear that Pan Gu created the world as he worried that heaven and earth may mix again. In the same way, in the world that Pan Gu had left behind, Nü Wa made human as she became lonely in her solitude. Clearly, both of them have those feelings like human.

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How does the story deal with sexuality and/or gender? 

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How does the story deal with sexuality and/or gender? 

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Pan gu represents male with power and boldness because he creates the world including natural resources.
Whereas Nu wa represents female who plays an inferior role in the society and represents reproduction, and creates humanity.
As Chinese is male dominant culture, therefore; the first god is Pan gu or a male , not Nu wa or female.

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Is it possible to create a “perfect” world? Why or why not, according to the creation stories?

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Is it possible to create a “perfect” world? Why or why not, according to the creation stories?

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According to the Hebrew creation, it could be said that the God had crated a perfect world. Literally, the God created the world step by step starting from created the non-living world until the sixth day of creation that the God created the living thing such as plants, animals and human to live in the world. Also, the God deduced the seventh day to be his rest day after he had done all the work. In other words, the God had accomplished his own purpose in creating the world.

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Who has the power in the story? What kind of power is it, and howis it used? How does it compare to the possession and use of power today’s societies?

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Who has the power in the story? What kind of power is it, and howis it used? How does it compare to the possession and use of power today’s societies?

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Personally, God is the power in the story because he/she create the world. All six days, he respectively fulfills the world with a ton of vegetations and animals of the sky, land and sea. Everything that is created by God prepares to the humankind as the last creation to take all of these to be alive and live in the world. As a result, the Hebrew creation story can be compared to the societies in the present. It can notice that the God as the parents preparing everything that is the greatest and finest to their children. The availability’s some parents is for preventing the children from unpleasant conditions.

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What makes us human? What differences are there in the creation of humans and the creation of animals in the stories?

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What makes us human? What differences are there in the creation of humans and the creation of animals in the stories?

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In Hebrew creation story, God is the creator of the world. He differently creates animals and humans. For animals, he creates to fulfill and be beneficial in the world; however, they are not more powerful than humans or have the most power in the created world. In contrast, humans are created to have dominion and rule over other creation.

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(G.5) Does the story reflect or challenge our views of social reality?

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(G.5) Does the story reflect or challenge our views of social reality?

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The story reflect to our reality in term of the light in the science field that it could create or grow the things such the photosynthesis of trees and plants that create the oxygen for humans and other living creatures, and also make the plants grow. Furthermore, it also reflects the fact that female is responsible for giving birth and reproduction.

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(G.5) Who has the power in the story? What kind of power is it, and how is it used? How does it compare to the possession and use of power today's societies?

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(G.5) Who has the power in the story? What kind of power is it, and how is it used? How does it compare to the possession and use of power today's societies?

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In the story, the one who hold the highest power seem to be the father of all spirit which command the sun mother to do all jobs for him. Comparing to today's societies, it could relate to the patriarchy that still exists in some societies.

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(G.5) How does the story deal with sexuality and/or gender? If it is different than is typical in our world, how does that difference affect the world and characters in the story? Are gender roles or sexuality seen as inherent traits or as social constructs?

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(G.5) How does the story deal with sexuality and/or gender? If it is different than is typical in our world, how does that difference affect the world and characters in the story? Are gender roles or sexuality seen as inherent traits or as social constructs?

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The role of gender in the story show as an  inherent traits and also reflect to social constructs in nowadays. The role of male reveal the strongest gender which has the power to command all things in the world. In the same time, the story also shows the nature side of female which has generous and gentle mind to create and protect all things from the maternal instinct. Therefore, this could refer to both  inherent traits and social constructs that they seem to be the similar characteristics between the story and the real world.