Category: General
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Social Impact of Myths
The social impact of myths includes that they give answers to questions about life, why we are here, who put us here and what we should or should not do with our lives as a result of our having been created. These myths give people reason. My group discussed question two for the most part.…
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Gender Roles & Our Worldview
Times are changing. As I was reading everyone’s blog post for this week, it gave me hope to see that as a society and next generation for this world, we are moving away from old ways of thinking and into new progressive ideologies. This progressive thinking is seen in everyone’s responses in our thoughts on…
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Gender Roles Present in Mythologies
After discussing the use of gender roles present in mythologies our group came to a general consensus that many of the mythologies we’ve studied tend to perceive women as less than their male counterparts. However, this isn’t always the case, we’ve also been exposed to myths that celebrate females. Unfortunately, at least for the myths…
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Origin Myths and Worldviews
How was the earth created? This is a question that has been plaguing humanity for many years, a concrete answer continuing to evade our grasp. Even with the technology we have today, scientists can only theorize how our world came to existence. When it comes to religion and philosophy, there are many different myths with…
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Gender in Myth
We had very interesting discussion surrounding gender and mythology in our group this week. Our discussion was very heavily focused on gender in myth, as well as how those stories might translate into societal gender roles. The first guiding question was “What are your thoughts on the role of gender in origin myths”. I started…
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Group 11, discussion 1, blog 1:
Overall, I believe that our group had a thought-provoking discussion involving the questions as well as our own experiences. One of our group members spoke about growing up learning about lore such as the Hopi myth, which was discussed in Myth, Belief, Narration, Image: Reflections on Mesoamerican Mythology. I really liked reading about them, especially…
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The Everlasting Evolution of The Bible: Emic and Etic Perspectives at a Crossroad
The evolution of the Bible and the emic and etic perspectives regarding this religious handbook are both everlasting. There has been an astounding 3.9 billion copies of the Bible sold this past half-century alone. Since the Bible was first introduced to the eye of the public, there have been updated variants that cater to each…
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Emic vs. Etic Perspective
This week the discussion was based on three prompt questions asking about thoughts on Adam Gaudry’s “Metis-ization of Canada,” the exploration of a metaphor or character from Mesoamerican mythology, and a current world scenario with arguing etic and epic perspectives. Answering the first question, the students explained that the interesting thing to them in the…
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Group #1, Discussion #1 Blog
Ideas such as Mesoamerican mythology, emic and ethic view-points, along with the Métis people and history are such great topics that can challenge the way we think about the world and how we view it from a personal perspective. The first part of this weeks discussion was on the “Métis-ization of Canada”, an interesting article…
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Islamic interpretations of Christianity: An Etic and Emic Approach
Myths are a type of literary genre that involve a traditional story used to explain a natural or social phenomenon. Given that my group had little to no discussion on any of the presented topics; this week me, myself, and I discussed and investigated Islamic interpretations of Christianity. Islamic views towards Christianity share similarities of…