Deluge myth

How should we live, in order to "live a good life"? For someone such as Albert Camus, author of The Myth of Sisyphus, living a good life would involve living freely. Camus believed strongly that we as humans should not hope for anything. Nothing is guaranteed to us; we could literally drop dead at any moment. Camus believed everyone should live in the moment. His essays suggest we should accept whatever our actions result in, no matter how bad it is; as long as we find happiness in the present,…

like a mist, was the creation and formation of it.” (Popol Vuh 61). The gods created the Earth in one day in Genesis God took seven days to create Earth and everything on it, however in both of these works there is a hierarchy for creation. In both myths, the day and night, light and dark, oceans, trees, and animals were all created before human…

The myth above started with a similar background as the Theogony by Hesoid. The cosmos in both myths are in Chaos at the very beginning until the appearance of world creator who reshaped the world. The special state of the cosmos is also mentioned in many other creation myths such as the Hebrew Bible. In the Hebrew Bible, the early cosmos is described using the word “Tohuwabohu” which means disordered and unsystematic. Also, the world creator Chaos spoke before creating which is similar to the…

Bryson Miguel’s “Until Something Happens” is a postmodernist, deconstructionist short story that depicts the entropic nature of language and implies that, despite efforts to apply order and meaning to our words, we are only as effectively understood as someone else effectively understands. Miguel’s story also suggests that the true significance of our stories and life experiences are often ambiguous. There is no single and objective meaning to discover, but rather the subjective act of…

Yahweh vs. The World on the Turtle’s Back “The World on the Turtle’s Back” and “Yahweh” share many similarities and differences. They both talk about two culture’s beliefs about how the Earth was created, and how the plants and animals came to be. “The World on the Turtle’s Back” comes from the Native American tribes while “Yahweh” is a Hebrew tale. Both are interesting tales and help us understand these two vastly different cultures. In “The World on a Turtle’s Back” there is a pregnant woman…

The core of all the teachings of the Navajo or Diné people “stress male and female [aspects] as a basic form of symbolism; the notion is that only by pairing can any entity be complete.” (Reichard 1950, 29). Thus, the traditional Navajo housing structure, a hogan (hooghan), emphasizes this core idea, since the belief is that all natural things have both a male and female aspect for balance. Accordingly, this sense of balance is symbolized in the function and construction of both aspects of the…

Existential Crisis or Enlightenment? Does human existence hold any greater meaning? In the 1946 novel, The Stranger by Albert Camus, the protagonist and narrator, Meursault, a french man detached and estranged from humanity questions just that. In the first part, the story starts in the setting of the town of Algiers in 1940s French occupied Algeria. It begins with the death of his mother, to which Meursault does not feel much towards. He returns from the vigil held at the home that his…

Creation Story is a myth. Although some people still believe that God created and formed our land by himself, it’s just not possible to in 6 days as science proves. Explain why the scripture passage (Creation Story) is classified as a myth? The Creation story is a myth, although there is meaning behind this scripture. This particular story is not necessarily to be interpreted factually, only to be thought of as envision of how our natural world…

Meursault; An Absurd Hero In Camus’ The Stranger Albert Camus portrayed his beliefs and values through Meursault in The Stranger and gave him the perception that life on earth is nothing more than absurd unless one finds meaning or something to live for. In the beginning when Meursault gets the telegram informing him that his mother has passed away, we don’t really see much of a surprised reaction from Meursault, but he makes the effort of taking off from work in order to attend her funeral.…

stopped telling it. The culture later thought that their story was too far-fetched or the culture and it’s peoples died out and faded away. In Celtic culture, no known story has been known to survive, but there is a creation myth that has lasted through the ages. This myth begins by explaining that in the dawn of time there were no gods or humans, only the land and sea. It goes on to say that at one point the land and sea me and when they did a white mare was born, made of sea-foam. Her name…