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6 Cards in this Set
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SEXTON
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-heavily influenced by missionarys
-adopted to local culture and became their own |
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EXAMPLES:
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MAYA: GODDESS OF THE LAKE
CHIAPAS: THE SOMBRERON AND BLUE FLY |
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GODDESS OF THE LAKE:
MAYA |
-man ascends to underworld
-led by goddess -paradise under lake -wants to communicate with parents -people come to eat feast (in basket represents MAYA CULTURE) -parents with them -cant touch but can talk to them -led back -goddess kisses him he cant kiss her |
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THE SOMBRERON AND BLUE FLY
CHIAPAS |
-wife dies of sickness
-meets lord of death (SOMBERRO: MEXICAN CULTURE) -turns man into fly/rides on back of donkey to underworld -GREAT SILENCE -people separated on how they die -wife with different husband -could only talk to wife not touch -new apperation was image of man -going to die soon -turns fly/takes back -3days later man dies of sickness |
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ORPHEUS MYTH
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-poet/ singer
-falls in love with nymph : EURYDICE -dies of snake bite -travels to underworld -charms Hades -releases wife one condition: don’t look back -fails condition/loses love forever -wanders -towrn limb from limb by wild women in fit of jealousy -head still calling for EURDYDICE |
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OEDIPUS MYTH
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-son of KIND LAUIS and JOCASTA
-oracle tells king son will kill him marry mother -leaves Oedipus on mountain -saved by Shepard -taken to KING POLYBUS of CORNITH -king adopts him -oracle appears to Oedipus that he will kill father marry mother -leaves Cornith. meets king lauis. kills him -monster plagues THEBES -beats Sphinx by solving her riddle -Oedipus becomes king marrys JOCASTA -figures out the oracle was fulfilled -jacasta kills herself -oedipus puts out own eyes -wanders many years-led by daughter ANTIGONE -dies at COLUNUS-APOLLO makes shrine sacred |
