ANTH 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Big Bang, Liminality, Age Of Enlightenment
5 Aug 2020
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Myths: are stories that explore a culture"s most important cosmological and metaphysical questions powerful story . Ex: where do we come from? how can we explain what exists and why good/bad things happen? why are people capable of good/evil? what happens when we die? . A myth does not have to be fictional big bang, climate change. Does not need to be perceived as real for people to find them meaningful superman, Myths as storytelling: people like myths b/c we enjoy stories (dramatic, but reveals truth about the human experience) Can be about something that happened/could happen/might have happened/never happened. Myths are sacred stories told over and over again some become so sacred that people believe that they were passed on to us from the beings depicted in the narrative (god/s) Popular myths have a common storytelling nature/structure hero pattern (vishnu, Romulus, buddha, jesus, mohammad, king arthur, harry potter, superman) Want to hear similar stories (common t/o world) absent parents.
