ANTB66H3 Final: ANTB66 Exam notes Condensed
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Part 1: short answer, worth 15% of overall grade [condensed version] It runs a realm of confusion on the edges of hell. It is also where divine mysteries are revealed, and where deities contend for power. Additionally, it leads to new beginnings and is the seat of creativity as it destroys the previously existing. They form the understandings of the universe and is at the centre of most myths: big bang theory, satan, greek mythology, etc. Eliade associates myth as the source for pilgrimage sites. The creation of man answers to the cosmogony. Where three cosmic regions meet (below the pole star) Axis mundi: the center of the world. Ex: sacred centers like mountains and temples are protected by rites that repeat the origin myth, where the cosmos, the reigning order, overcomes chaos. Where the creation of world began daily. They are dangerous places because they are between heaven and hell. Monks protect these sites and performs rituals.
