Myth Mid Term

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Anthropomorphic

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ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not human

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Apotropaic

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Intended to ward off evil

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Autochthonous

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Indigenous; native to a particular place

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Cosmogony

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story of the genesis and development of the universe or solar system

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Cosmology

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Similar to cosmogony but with less emphasis on creation or origins and more on the study of how the universe works now

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Chthonic

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Deities, spirits, and other beings dwelling under the earth.

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Ennead

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A group of nine persons

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Eponymous

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Giving one’s name to a tribe, place, etc

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Etiology

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The study of causes, causations, or reasons for being

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Etymology

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The study of words origins and derivation.

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Metaphor

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A word or phrase is taken out of its normal context and placed within the
parameters of another context

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Symbolism

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A concrete object is taken and used as something different.

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Monotheism

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The belief in one god

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Henotheism

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belief in one god without denying the existence of other gods

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Atheism

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The belief in no god

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Polytheism

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The belief in multiple gods

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Myth

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Traditional stories a society tells itself that encode or represent the world-view, beliefs, principles, and often fears of that society.

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Legend

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traditional stories rooted in historical fact

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Folktale

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stories that are primarily entertaining that often involve clever animals with human-like characteristics

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Mythology

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The study of myths

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Personification

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An inanimate object takes on the qualities and characteristics of a human being.

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Syncretism

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a blending of religions to create a new religion

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Theogony

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An account of the origins of the gods.

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Theophany

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An appearance of a god man (usually in non-anthropomorphic form)

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Therianthropic

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Being partly bestial and partly human in form

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Theriomorphic

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In form of a beast

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Wordplay

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Pun, assonance, onomatopoeia, alliteration, etc found in myths (sometimes lost in the translation to English)

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Bildungsruman

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Story where the main character matures.

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Entwicklungsruman

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Story where main character matures and is aware of it

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Shoudin Freud

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Laughter at someone else’s expensive

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Peripeteia

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Best describes character’s unexpected turn of events.

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Pyrrhic Victory

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Victory at great cost

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Kenning

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hints at setting

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Social Context

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reflects how the people around something use and interpret it.

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Social Text

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is a postmodernist cultural studies journal published by Duke University Press.

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Accertion (or Conjunction)

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Elements mix together and form earth

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Secretion

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Creation based on bodily fluids

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Sacrifice Stories

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Death of deity creates a new world

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Division (or Consumation)

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Egg appears giving birth to god

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Earth-Diver

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Earth is nothing but water then life/land is created

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Emergence

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World created thru progressions of previous population

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2 Creaters

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Create world thru compassion or coopertaion

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Deus Faber (God Maker)

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God progressively creates human/life/etc.

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Oral

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Spoken

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Material

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Décor, Jewelry, etc.

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Behavioral/Cogitative

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Rituals, etc.

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Female

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Being the sex that bears young and produces eggs

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Feminine

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characteristics of or appropriate or unique to women

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Essentialism

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an educational theory that ideas and skills basic to a culture should be taught to all alike by time-tested methods.

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Sexism

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prejudice or discrimination based on sex

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Patriarchy

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control by men of a disproportionately large share of power

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Feminism 1

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The theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes

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Feminism

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Organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interest.

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Thomas

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coined the term Folklore

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Sir James

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Wrote Golden Book

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Freud

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The same myths are present in different culture. Everything is primarily sexual

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Jung

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Archetypes are in every culture’s mythology. The unconscious is divided by the unconscious of the individual and human race. The latter creates archetypes

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Vladimir

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Baskin Robin’s 31 flavors.

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Strauss

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driving force behind all myths is mediation between opposites. Individuals stories mean nothing but collectively they mean everything. Myths can be broken down in to mythemes.

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Campbell

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All myths are versions of the monomyth, which ultimately contains the one universal truth.

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Burkert

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Myth have roots in biological changes. Studies rituals associated with biological rites of passage.

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Rank

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Myths dealt with birth canal and coming to term with imperfect parents