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19 Cards in this Set
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A story that is usually of unknown origin |
Myth |
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A make- believe story about fairies, wizards, giants, etc. |
Fairy tale |
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A story about the past that is considered to be true but is usually a combination of fact and fiction |
Legend |
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A group of myths from a single group or culture |
Mythology |
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Myths that tend to be examples of primitive science or religion |
Pure/ True Myth or Myth Proper |
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Myths that tend to be examples of primitive history |
Saga or Legend |
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According to Joseph Campbell's The hero with a Thousand faces, an archetypal hero goes through _,_,_ |
Depaeture, Initiation,and Return |
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A collection of fables in Greece made 2000 years ago |
Aesop's Fables |
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A collection of stories and fables from Arabie, Egypt, India and Persia |
A thousand and one nights or the Arabian nights |
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A theory that states that myths represent an early form of logical thinking |
Rationalism |
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"All myths derive from and can be traced back to certain words in the language" |
Etymological Theory |
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"Myths contain hidden meanings which the narrative deliberately conceals" |
Allegorical Theory |
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"All myths are thought to arise from an attempt to explain natural phenomena" |
Naturalism |
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"All myths are invented to accompany and explain religious ritual" |
Ritualism |
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"All myths arose from a few major cultural centers and spread throughout the world" |
Diffusionism |
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"Myth making occurs at a certain stage in the evolution of the human mind" |
Evolutionism |
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"Myth comes from certain infantiles that are repressed" |
Freudianism |
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Very general ideas, themes, motifs which are passed along from one generation to another and retained as part of human inheritance |
Collective Unconscious |
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"To understand myth, we must analyze it linguistically" |
Structuralism |
