[HUMA 1780] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (50 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1780
• Professor: Sharon Davidson

Document Summary

Power structure/hierarchy are very much a part of creation myth. They explain natural phenomenon ex: how fall follows summer, how seasons came to be (cyclical) Thematic of these stories deal with existence & meaning of life & death. They often include cultural hero"s most often supernatural god & godesses. Creation myths are stories about the birth of the world. They exist in just about every culture and reveal how people in ancient times speculated about how the world may have emerged. Creation stories were their kind of cosmological research, albeit of a very speculative nature. Uses humor/imitates or mocks someone or something the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule. Expressions/terms that indicate story type: e. g. once upon a time (fairy tale), in the beginning (creation myth) How people are named and ordered in a particular time.