Origin Myths

What is an origin myth?

• traditional story that explains how life begin.

• traditional story of how Gods hate men

• traditional story of human who want to create a world

• traditional story which is just make believe

What is an archetype?

• a villain

• lots of buildings put together

• patterns, symbols, or character types that repeat across cultures

• types of genres

Which of these is a myth?

• Grizzly bears speaking and walking

• Native Americans telling stories

• Onondage fishing for food

• Navajo growing crops

Who is finds mud for the young woman?

• frog

• swan

• otter

• muskrat

What is the earth built on in the first story?

• water

• skyworld

• turtle

• whale's back

What does the young woman have in her fist while she falls to the water below?

• dirt

• roots

• rocks

• a knife

Who told his daughter to tell the wind spirit to blow more gently on his mountain?

• Indian spirit

• Sky spirit

• Mountain spirit

• Bear spirit

Who saves the girl that is blown out of the mountain by the wind spirit?

• wolves

• turtle

• birds

• bears

When the sky spirit saw his grandchildren, what was his reaction?

• love

• anger

• embarrassment

• regret

What do the Modoc do now, when an Indian is killed by a bear?

• buried by the sacred tree

• send it out on the river

• burn the body on the spot

• feed it to the bears as a sacrifice to the Sky God