Exploration 1: Myth Analysis

Choose one cosmogony myth from the readings or the podcast. (beginning and order)

• Explain the type of Cosmogony myth Ex-nihilo, God-as creator, dismembered body etc.
• Give the context of the culture that produced it, provide a picture or representation the myth if possible.
• What similarities does it have with other creation myths that we have studied.

Next, analyze the myth using at least two different theoretical lenses, similar to what I did with Freud, Lacan and Oedipus.

To help you get started you might want to look for:

• metaphors
• motifs,
• symbols
• rituals,
• power structures
• magic

Your analysis should 250-300 words.

Leeming pg 15-67

Listen to at least one Creation Myth podcast

• Creation Myths.m4b
• Hebrew Creation Myths.m4b06
• Emergence and World-Parent Creation Myths.m4b08
• Earth-Diver and Dismembered God Creation Myths.m4b