Motifs Flashcards
Creation of Man: Greek
Clay
Prometheus
gifts
Creation of Man: Hebrew
Clay
Man over animals
God Breathed power over clay
Creation of Man: Egyptian
clay
sweat tears
Creation of Man: Babylonian
clay
Blood of slaughtered god
Creation of Man: Norse
Cow licked block of ice into the shape of a man
Evil-Death-Punishment: Greek
Pandora let loose into the world
Prometheus being punished tied to a rock
Evil-Death-Punishment: Hebrew
Woman caused evil from temptation
Evil-Death-Punishment: Egyptian
Death and evil stories
No lost paradise stories
Evil-Death-Punishment: Indonesian
Creator lets down a rope where people are to decide whether they wanted a rock or a banana. People choose the banana therefore they receive a mortal life rather than immortality from the stone.
Evil-Death-Punishment: African
Two bundles are given to people from the gods. The people chose death.
Death from transgression of god
Destruction-Renewal: Greek
Zeus created a flood because he believed that humanity was wicked. Prometheus warned the people of the flood and gifted them with a boat.
9days+9nights=new race from stone
Destruction-Renewal: Hebrew
God told Noah to build an arc with the animals
40days+40nights
Destruction-Renewal: Babylonian
flood
7days+7nights
Ages of Humanity: Greek
Gold-blessed Silver-inferior Bronze-violence ans war Heroes-Trojan war Iron-wicked humanity crime and disaster
Ages of Humanity: Aztec
4 suns+living in the fifth: each of which ended in disaster Sun of precious stones-flood Sun of fire-raining fire from heaven Sun of darkness-earthquake Sun of wind-hurricane Fifth sun-conquistadors coming