ENG 201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology, Zeus
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Mythological thinking or concept of human consciousness . This is seen through religious practices (burial sites), reverence toward bear skulls (cycle of sleep, rebirth), and venus figurines (fertility symbols), art (vases, caves), and through the tradition of story telling and myths. All these factors express knowledge and appreciation of life-death cycle and understanding of our humanness of body-spirit: burial rights - life/death. We think that there is something after death. Every culture has a concept of creation, origin, afterlife, and underworld. Creation = earth and world origin = humans afterlife = form of existence you will be underworld = death: bear skulls - cycles of nature. If you revere it, you will fear it less. Examines the idea of cycles - bear hibernates in winter and wakes up in spring. Allows us to see the cycles of nature - the bad moon comes (bear) but will eventually go away (hibernates), gives us comfort and lessened fear.
