CLT Study Exam 2 Questions and
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Anansi wants to own the stories - ANSWERS -• Nyame- sky god
• Anansi offers to buy stories from Nyame, is willing to send if he can bring him
o Mmoboro, hornets
o Onini, the python
o Osebo, the leopard
• Uses tricks to get the items
o Hornets, python, and leopard
o All are now Anansi's tales
Moon - ANSWERS -Anansi: Anansi rescued. etiology for why moon is in sky
Nyame's daughter - ANSWERS -Anansi: what is played on a drum
Seminole Creation - ANSWERS -Everglades, Big Forest, Creator (Grandfather)
Corn Lady - ANSWERS -Seminole Creation: major creation myth. Tribe living in forest. Baby boy
goes missing, taken by "unseen people"- gods? In everglades. Old witch- (Corn Lady), actually
took the boy. Etiology for corn- she is made of corn and takes kernels off her legs. Boy finds out
and she tells him to go back to his people and to burn the place down when he leaves. When
people come back the place is filled with corn. Green Corn Festival
Alligator - ANSWERS -Seminole Creation: one common language. Rabbit tricks alligator into
telling how he can be killed. Rabbit comes back disguised as squirrel and kills alligator. Etiology
for why alligators lie there with their mouth open- alligators dry out their mouth.
,Twins - ANSWERS -Seminole Creation: woman pregnant and killed by panther but womb is
untouched. Twins born after- twins seen as scary. Taken by thunder and turned into lightening.
Etiology- why one is kept and one is killed, or both are kept but taught correctly. Etiology for
"evil twin" ideology and for why u have to stay under chickee in storm
Inca - ANSWERS -"lord". Lived in Peru
Vertical archipelago - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: the agricultural economic model for
distributing resources
Pachacuti - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: leader/potential builder of Machu Pichu
Eurocentric - ANSWERS -focusing on European culture/history
Viracocha Cosmogony- creation story - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: FLOOD MYTH. first dark
world. After created made giants. Sent flood to kill them all
o 60 days and 60 nights
o keeps 3 helpers and creates new people. Sun, moon, and stars
o Taguapaca imprisoned
destruction/ritual cleansing
Inti - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: Sun God
Viracocha (Wiracocha) - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: creator of all things
Lake Titicaca - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: sacred
,de Gamboa - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: spanish explorer/wrote about Incans. Eurocentric
uno pachacuti - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: "water that overturned the earth"
Taguapaca - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: warns people about false Viracocha. Walks on water.
Tiahuanaco - ANSWERS -pre-Incan ruins
Cusco - ANSWERS -Capital of Inca
xenophobia - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: dislike or fear of people from other countries
Popol Vuh - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: "council book". compilation of historical and
mythological events
Mesoamerica - ANSWERS -central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica
Sedentary agriculture - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: Agriculture as practiced in one place by a
settled farmer in which fields are not rotated is called
Olmec - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: earliest known major civilization in Mexico
Sovreign Plumed Serpent - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: starts in vast and still ocean, and after a
lengthy discussion as to the way that things should be, he watches as Hurricane and his group
brings forth the earth from the sea by repeating its name. He is also part of the group that, in
three separate stages, creates men out of three different materials: mud, which dissolves into
nothingness; wood, which fails to respect the gods and is destroyed for it; and lastly, maize,
which succeeds in creating the people we know today.
, Heart of Sky - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: sends flood
Xmucane - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: mother goddess
Omnipotent - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: unlimited power
Zoomorphic - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: possum, peccarry, tapir
omniscient - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: knowing everything
Quiche - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: language
Joseph Campbell - ANSWERS -mythologist. influences from Freud and Jung. Saw hero myths as
relevant to everyone. Created structure of hero myths- say heroes go on journey to far off land
monomyth - ANSWERS -one, shapeshifting but constant story (Campbell). Basic patterns and
structure from other mythic narratives
Hero - ANSWERS -special birth
unusual place in society
has to learn things the "hard way"
symbolic death- with trip to underworld
rites of passage
Rite of Passage - ANSWERS -transitions
removal from society
Answers35
Anansi wants to own the stories - ANSWERS -• Nyame- sky god
• Anansi offers to buy stories from Nyame, is willing to send if he can bring him
o Mmoboro, hornets
o Onini, the python
o Osebo, the leopard
• Uses tricks to get the items
o Hornets, python, and leopard
o All are now Anansi's tales
Moon - ANSWERS -Anansi: Anansi rescued. etiology for why moon is in sky
Nyame's daughter - ANSWERS -Anansi: what is played on a drum
Seminole Creation - ANSWERS -Everglades, Big Forest, Creator (Grandfather)
Corn Lady - ANSWERS -Seminole Creation: major creation myth. Tribe living in forest. Baby boy
goes missing, taken by "unseen people"- gods? In everglades. Old witch- (Corn Lady), actually
took the boy. Etiology for corn- she is made of corn and takes kernels off her legs. Boy finds out
and she tells him to go back to his people and to burn the place down when he leaves. When
people come back the place is filled with corn. Green Corn Festival
Alligator - ANSWERS -Seminole Creation: one common language. Rabbit tricks alligator into
telling how he can be killed. Rabbit comes back disguised as squirrel and kills alligator. Etiology
for why alligators lie there with their mouth open- alligators dry out their mouth.
,Twins - ANSWERS -Seminole Creation: woman pregnant and killed by panther but womb is
untouched. Twins born after- twins seen as scary. Taken by thunder and turned into lightening.
Etiology- why one is kept and one is killed, or both are kept but taught correctly. Etiology for
"evil twin" ideology and for why u have to stay under chickee in storm
Inca - ANSWERS -"lord". Lived in Peru
Vertical archipelago - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: the agricultural economic model for
distributing resources
Pachacuti - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: leader/potential builder of Machu Pichu
Eurocentric - ANSWERS -focusing on European culture/history
Viracocha Cosmogony- creation story - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: FLOOD MYTH. first dark
world. After created made giants. Sent flood to kill them all
o 60 days and 60 nights
o keeps 3 helpers and creates new people. Sun, moon, and stars
o Taguapaca imprisoned
destruction/ritual cleansing
Inti - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: Sun God
Viracocha (Wiracocha) - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: creator of all things
Lake Titicaca - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: sacred
,de Gamboa - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: spanish explorer/wrote about Incans. Eurocentric
uno pachacuti - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: "water that overturned the earth"
Taguapaca - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: warns people about false Viracocha. Walks on water.
Tiahuanaco - ANSWERS -pre-Incan ruins
Cusco - ANSWERS -Capital of Inca
xenophobia - ANSWERS -Incan Creation: dislike or fear of people from other countries
Popol Vuh - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: "council book". compilation of historical and
mythological events
Mesoamerica - ANSWERS -central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica
Sedentary agriculture - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: Agriculture as practiced in one place by a
settled farmer in which fields are not rotated is called
Olmec - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: earliest known major civilization in Mexico
Sovreign Plumed Serpent - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: starts in vast and still ocean, and after a
lengthy discussion as to the way that things should be, he watches as Hurricane and his group
brings forth the earth from the sea by repeating its name. He is also part of the group that, in
three separate stages, creates men out of three different materials: mud, which dissolves into
nothingness; wood, which fails to respect the gods and is destroyed for it; and lastly, maize,
which succeeds in creating the people we know today.
, Heart of Sky - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: sends flood
Xmucane - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: mother goddess
Omnipotent - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: unlimited power
Zoomorphic - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: possum, peccarry, tapir
omniscient - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: knowing everything
Quiche - ANSWERS -Mayan Creation: language
Joseph Campbell - ANSWERS -mythologist. influences from Freud and Jung. Saw hero myths as
relevant to everyone. Created structure of hero myths- say heroes go on journey to far off land
monomyth - ANSWERS -one, shapeshifting but constant story (Campbell). Basic patterns and
structure from other mythic narratives
Hero - ANSWERS -special birth
unusual place in society
has to learn things the "hard way"
symbolic death- with trip to underworld
rites of passage
Rite of Passage - ANSWERS -transitions
removal from society
