Chapter One: Terms

Question 1

Myth

Answer 1

A traditional story with collective importance

Question 2

Traditional Definition

Answer 2

Beliefs and customs passed down orally

Question 3

Story Definition

Answer 3

A plot with a beginning middle and end, we often know how they will end

Question 4

Collective Definition

Answer 4

A group, culture, family, city

Question 5

Importance Definition

Answer 5

Influences beliefs, morals, etc.

Question 6

Oral traditions

Answer 6

Came First

Question 7

Religion

Answer 7

A set of beliefs that condition/motivate to action

Question 8

Cult

Answer 8

Very devout worship to a specific deity

Question 9

Ritual

Answer 9

A repeated action with some significance, prayers, sacrifices, washings, etc…

Question 10

Divine Myth

Answer 10

Stories about gods and goddesses

Question 11

Legend

Answer 11

Stories about heroes and important mortals

Question 12

Folktales

Answer 12

Stories about everyone else, woman, and animals with human behaviors

Question 13

Mythos

Answer 13

Author takes responsibility

Question 14

Logos

Answer 14

A reasonable account by someone who stands by it

Question 15

Philosophy

Answer 15

Tells stories to avoid telling simple truth, or to keep things hidden
Came out of a need for an explanation

Question 16

Philosophical Allegory

Answer 16

Made up story to explain something

Question 17

Aetiological

Answer 17

Explains why you believe what you believe

Question 18

Creation Myth

Answer 18

How it all started, universe, world, etc…

Question 19

Cosmology

Answer 19

How the universe was born

Question 20

Theogony

Answer 20

Where the gods came from

Question 21

Foundation Myth

Answer 21

Where did your city come from?

Question 22

Charter Myth

Answer 22

How social customs started

Question 23

Cambridge Ritual Theory

Answer 23

Myth and ritual explain each other

Question 24

Etymology

Answer 24

Origins of a word, name

Question 25

Eschatological Myth

Answer 25

Myth about the end of things

Question 26

Soteriological Myth

Answer 26

Myths about afterlife, better death, or defeat of death

Question 27

Mystery

Answer 27

Cult that involves initiation, secrets, and better death

Question 28

Xenophanes

Answer 28

Thought that old stories taught immoral behavior and that we simply created gods to be in our image

Question 29

Euhumerus

Answer 29

Thought that there is no divine myth, only legends

Question 30

Palaephatus

Answer 30

Taught naturalist logic, created new, more probable stories in place of myth