1. For this activity, you are going to OUTLINE all the important concepts and discussions you have taken from the Britannica article you have read previously. You will work in groups to complete this activity. See your groupings on the PEOPLE PANEL on the left corner of your CANVAS.

2. To comply with this homework, you have to prepare a PADLET link, which will be used several times throughout this course. So make sure to organize properly your Padlet wall. Expect to submit some of your group's activities through PADLET.

3. Be systematic in all your group activities so every member would be aware of his/her tasks. I will be assigning a leader for this group for faster execution of the tasks.

4. For the leader who will be assigned for this activity, please do the following:

a. Make a GC for your group

b. Assign to every member who will be outlining the concepts and discussions.

c. Assign someone to prepare the PADLET.

d. Initiate the planning of this activity.

5. For the PADLET, the following are suggested and expected to be done by each group:

a. Please use a GRID or SHELF format type of PADLET

b. Make use of Headings to clearly understand your notes.

c. Be Creative in your presentation but make sure that the content of your notetaking equally stands out from how you aesthetically arranged your padlet.

d. All members should be added to the PADLET. Every member should give their emails to the main administrator of the padlet so when a member answers his/her assigned task;  the names of the member appear on the padlet. Please see attached pics to be guided further.

-it means a fictitious or untrue story. 

- features personified animals or natural objects as characters. 

-fables almost always end with an explicit moral message.

Ex: The Hare and the Tortoise

 

-In a broader perspective it is normally used to refer to a much wider class of narrative, namely, stories directed above all at an audience of children about an individual, almost always young, who confronts strange or magical events.

Ex: Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella

*Stith Thompson

-Regarded Myth as one type of folktale.

-according to this approach, the characteristic of myth is that its narratives deal with sacred events that happened “in the beginning.”

*Geoffrey S. Kirk

-Says the term folktale denotes stories that reflect simple social situations and play on ordinary fears and desires.

Ex: The Pied Piper, Marchen(“Tales”)

-The myth can be said to validate life itself together with the cultic celebration.

*Comparable myths

-told in a number of societies where the main means of food production is the cultivation of root crops

-the myths reflect the fact that tubers must be cut up and buried in the earth for propagation to take place.

- typical of traditional peasant cultures.

1.       Necessity of death (e.g., grain dies and is buried, only to yield a subsequent harvest)

2.       Society's cyclic renewal of itself (e.g., New Year's celebration)

3.       Significance of women and sexuality

 

Cosmogony(origin of cosmos)

-subject of the central mythology

* Many ceremonies that each society has developed as a symbol of what is necessary to its well-being.

Examples:

-Enthronements of kings wherein some traditions are associated with a creation or re-creation of the world. 

-The creation epic “Enuma Elish” which was read each New Year at Babylon, to celebrate the progress of the cosmos from initial anarchy to government by the kingship of Marduk.

*Ruling families in ancient civilizations frequently justified their position by invoking myths.

Examples:

 -Known from imperial China

-Pharaonic Egypt 

-The Hittite empire

-Polynesia 

-The Inca empire

- India

Georges Dumézil

-a French historian of ancient religion who was the pioneer in suggesting that the priestly, warrior, and producing classes in ancient Indo-European societies regarded themselves as having been ordained to particular tasks by virtue of their mythological origins.

Marriage and funerary customs- a very known cultural tradition that exist in some mythological foundation.

-The function of explanation and the narrative form go together, since the imaginative power of the myth lends credibility to the explanation and crystallizes it into a memorable and enduring form.

-A  myth functions as an explanation, but the narrative form distinguishes it from a straightforward answer to an intellectual question about causes.

Example:

One North American Indian (Abenaki) myth-explains the origin of corn (maize).