CLASSICS 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ponos, Abzu, Katabasis
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Stories derived from specific narrative structures and employed in specific types of socio-cultural roles. Origin myths are found in virtually every human culture: etiological narratives, can be an expression of where the physical world comes from, can be limited to the question of where a given group of people come from. Etiological narratives among ancient european populations are curiously similar. What does indo-european mean: refers to a family of languages, proto indo-european: language which no longer exists but can be partially reconstructed based on accepted linguistic principles, this population domesticates horses. Creation/origin myths of numerous ie population groups share many structural commonalities and generally conform to an archetype: formula of narration. The term for the original story or event from which the narrative emerges is called a vector. What"s an example of a creation myth: star wars. The void: near eastern creation myhs, enuma elish. Divine speech is the agency of creation.
