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- What is a myth?
- Why do societies have
them?
- What myths do you already
Myth, Culture and Civilization Review (Group) What is a myth? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Myth, Culture and Civilization Review (Group) What is a myth? - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Myth, Culture and Civilization Review (Group) What is a myth? Why do societies have them? What myths do you already Mythology and Society What is a myth? A story Provides an Explanation or Justification Teaches
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- What is a myth?
– A story
- Provides an Explanation or Justification
- Teaches social or religious
values/behavior
- Explains natural phenomenon
Mythology and Society
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- Why do societies have them?
– All societies have them
- Human need to understand
- Need for a collective “story” or identity
- Need for guidance of belief or behavior
Mythology and Society
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The Myth of Isis and Osiris
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Family of Gods
(Two of the Many)
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The Story
- Story of a good ruler loved
by his people ---Osiris
- Tricked into getting into a
coffin at a great feast by his jealous brother--- Set
- Set then sealed Osiris in the
coffin and threw it into the Nile
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The Story
- Isis loved Osiris enough to
search all over the world for him.
- Set, so envied this devotion
that he cut Osiris into pieces out of spite.
- Isis then reassembled
Osiris and wrapped him in
- bandages. (Q)
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The Story
- Through Magic she
then breathes life into him and conceives his son- Horus
- Horus then battled with
Set to avenge his father
- Neither god was able to
secure an overall victory
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Osiris and Isis
Osiris (Father)
Represents- Masculine Growing Civilization
Isis (Mother)
Represents- Feminine Nurture Magic
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Osiris and Isis
Set/Seth Represents- Chaos/Storms Desert Darkness Horus Represents- Man/Pharaoh War/Resistance Sun and Moon
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Review (Group)
Name some themes from this story? What do you think is the message of this story?
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