Myth telling is present in all types of cultures, mainly explain the scientific reasoning behind such things. As well as for scientific reasons each myth usually falls into align with representing information that collides with “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. The Chinese Myths, Yi the Archer and the Ten Suns” and “The Creation of the Universe “ follow both of these core concepts and also are so closely similar when introducing and explaining chinese mythology. Both these myths follow both the style of explaining the scientific culture of it and how a so called “god” or “hero” did in order to save or restore order in each of the myths. In the “Creation of the Universe” Myth the world is knowned to be formed by an egg, in that egg was a ton
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Yi the Archer can be seen as a hero just like how the “Goddess Nugua” is seen as, just like how Nuga defeated the monster “Gong-Gong” Yi the Archer with his steady aim shot down nine of the suns accourding to this piece of textual evidence “Yi the Archer;s aim was true. One by one he shot his arrows at the suns, and one by one they hit their marks. The nine suns could not survive the thrust of an arrow, and one by one they died.” ( Rosenberg 363). Following the concept of science this myth could explain any natural diaster that occured over that time, possibly evening a drought , a period of famine, or even a great plague accourding to these two pieces of textual evidence “Forests caught fire and burned to ash, killing many animals. Those who had not perished in the flames roamed among humans, vicous now in their desperate search for food.” (Rosenberg 363) and “Rivers and even seas dried up ; all the fish died, and water monsters scrounged for food upon the land. Many humans and animals died of thirst. Crops and orchards withered, putting an immediate end to the food supply of humans and domesticated animals.
Yi the Archer can be seen as a hero just like how the “Goddess Nugua” is seen as, just like how Nuga defeated the monster “Gong-Gong” Yi the Archer with his steady aim shot down nine of the suns accourding to this piece of textual evidence “Yi the Archer;s aim was true. One by one he shot his arrows at the suns, and one by one they hit their marks. The nine suns could not survive the thrust of an arrow, and one by one they died.” ( Rosenberg 363). Following the concept of science this myth could explain any natural diaster that occured over that time, possibly evening a drought , a period of famine, or even a great plague accourding to these two pieces of textual evidence “Forests caught fire and burned to ash, killing many animals. Those who had not perished in the flames roamed among humans, vicous now in their desperate search for food.” (Rosenberg 363) and “Rivers and even seas dried up ; all the fish died, and water monsters scrounged for food upon the land. Many humans and animals died of thirst. Crops and orchards withered, putting an immediate end to the food supply of humans and domesticated animals.