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Exam 1 - VOCAB
(CAMS)
| Vocab | Definition |
|---|---|
| Five Fold Description of mythology (Naddaf) | - set of stories - collecting - creating - telling - studying |
| Allegorical interpretation | saying something else |
| feminist interpretation | empathizes gender and power |
| greek archaic period | 9-6th cBCE rise of city states |
| BCE | before common era |
| Atum | - totality - undifferentiated, differentiated |
| ogdoad | the eight great gods |
| Ta-tenen | land-rising |
| ennead | the nine great gods |
| 2 Senses of chaos-khaos | - chaos: disorder - khaos: it happens;theres an end (opening and closing) |
| aetiological | explains the reason why something is the way it is today |
| genealogical cosmogony | origins of cosmos through reproduction and birth |
| cosmogony | - account of the origins of the cosmos - origin narrative |
| Theogony | origin of divinities |
| 4 original divinities ( Hesiod's) | - Khaos - Gaia - Tartaros - Eros |
| 3 original beings (Pherekydes) | - Zas - Khronos - Khthonie |