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Myth (or Mythos) literally means)__________
story
Name the three functions of mythology
1)religious significance
2)social significance
3)religious-social function
Explain religious significance
-SACRED MYTHS
-told of the creation of the world
-gods and their qualities
-relationships between humans and gods
-provided common belief system
-explained humans place in the world
Explain social significance
-HEROIC MYTHS
-explained history of a culture
-heros and heroines of the past
-social institutions
-relationships between people
-common framework for social interaction
-ethical matters explained
Explain religious-social function
-provided social glue for communities (holidays and festivals)
______ provided a context in which arts and crafts and performances celebrating religious beliefs
myths
________predates written texts of myths
oral tradition
Myths began to be written in the _______century BCE by ______
8th, Homer
Homer is most famous for writing the __________ and the _____________
Illiad, Odyssey
Hesiod wrote ___________ and ______________
Theogony and Works and Days
Philosophy emerges around _______BCE
6th century
A God-centered world-view is called a _______________ world-view
Theo-centric
The belief in many gods is called_______
polytheism
the belief in one god is called__________
monotheism
the belief in the existence of a god is called _____________
theism
the belief in a divine being of some kind (a deity of some sort-even less specific than monotheism/theism) is called______________
deism
deities that have human form are called _________________ deities
anthropomorphic
Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions hold that god is __________, _________ and ____________
Omnipotent
Omniscient
all-good
judeo-christian-islamic traditions are ________ traditions
monotheistic
Name the four qualities of ancient Greek Gods
-immortal
-control specific domains
-possess specific abilities and affinities
-are not always "good"
"philos" means_______
to love
"sophos" means_______
wisdom
________is the one who utilized the word "philosophy" in its current sense
Plato
"Laconic" means_______
an answer that is short and to the point, especially after a long question
______ was the king of gods and godesses
Zeus
the "orderly state of all" is known as ______
cosmos
an account of how the universe came to be is called _______
cosmogony
What is the "appearance/reality distinction"?
The distinction between how something appears to be and how it really is.
"bios" means_________
life