IVSA Mythology Unit 7 Review

From which discipline was the concept of a mytheme “borrowed”?

The Rosetta Stone offered anthropologists great insight into what part of human culture?

What is the function of the Norse World Tree?

What myth is likely partially responsible for Christian culture’s disdain toward snakes?

In folklorist studies, what perspective was most popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Beliefs about the afterlife for the wicked are often informed by the climate and environment of a culture.

In Australian myth, what crime resulted in humans having many languages?

What is an example of a myth that has been associated with real-world historic events?

In Christian mythology, which bird is most directly contrasted with the raven?

What is a common example of a morpheme?

What seminal tale did Dr. Jamie Tehrani trace, finding 35 different versions and a common ancestor over 2,600 years old?

Which culture utilized a logo-syllabic (symbols) writing script?

What culture FIRST made the idea of a lost city called Atlantis?

A particularist would argue that the stories of Hercules, Aladdin, Thor, and Yoshitsune are essentially all the same.

What comparative mythology perspective would be LEAST likely to support the idea of a heroic monomyth?

Why do mythemes exist?

What lost continent was originally formulated as a scientific theory, debunked once continental drift became known?

Approximately how many languages are listed in the Ethnologue website?

What was the main role of the “tree” mytheme in Christian mythology?

Based on their version of the World Flood myth, what culture would be LEAST likely to have communicated with others?

What do you think is the major difference between comparative religion and comparative mythology?

Which pair of myths explain similar elements of the world?

What type of creatures guards the World Trees in Greek, Hindu, and Chinese mythology?

What are logographic writing scripts based on (as in, what is the “building block” of the written language)?

Christianity is almost unique among Great Flood myths in that the survivors knew the flood was coming ahead of time.