CLAA05H3 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Ancient Egyptian Creation Myths, Tefnut, Abzu
5 Oct 2016
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A traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact o. Could be a religion you don"t believe in. As alluded to above what is myth for one group is truth and a part of the cultural identity for another, shared by a group. Origins, dreams, archetypes, metaphysical, proto scientific, sacred histories, stories. The egyptians and mesos did not call themselves these. Egypt = greek for aegyptos meso called themselves black head ones. Egypt from med to 2nd cataract lower, upper middle. Kmt what the egyptians called egypt referring to fertile black nile. Nile flows south to north, originates in ethiopia. Aug nov nile rises akhet god flood time. Composite civilization with many diff ethnic, linguistic and cultural groups. Power and control wax and wane through history. Myth and mesopotamia lecture 2 meso creation myths and the flood. A story describing the creation of the world.
