ANTH 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Theogony, Lightning, Sophist
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Christianity became official religion of roman empire. Theogony - the study of the birth of gods. Don"t care if myth is true or not, just want to persuade population to believe what. Monday, february 29, y they want: the euhemerist school. First developed by the greeks, but also is seen in the bible. Everyone lived happily, but when man kind sinned they were cast out of paradise, or were wiped out and started over with new men. Focussed only on one culture and all others were wrong. Nazis based their beliefs upon the volkish school. Grimm"s fairy tales (a lot of nationalism, volkish school, and anti-semitism: comparative mythology. Compare myths from different cultures to find the original version . Diffusion (passing on of mythology through contact) and polygenesis (creation from many places, same story existing in cultures in distant parts of the world: nature school. Similar but different from the euhemerist school (do not confuse)
