Crash Course World Mythology #4: Earth Mothers
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23 questions
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In general, the world’s creation myths include some kind of _______ .
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In the 1970s, British scientist James Lovelock updated the myth in a scientific _______ , defining “Mother Earth”, under her Greek name, _______ , as “a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a _______ or _______ system which seeks an optimal physical and chemical _______ for life on this planet.”
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Coeus, Crius, Theia, Rhea, Memory, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus (God of Time) are beings called the _______ .
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Why might people want to characterize Earth as a mother rather than a father?
Why might people want to characterize Earth as a mother rather than a father?
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Knowing that he needed to unseat his father and the other Titans, and also to set his siblings free from daddy’s tummy, _______ released the fifty-headed hecatoncheires, and together, they went to war. He also freed Rhea’s other children, and together, they defeated the Titans, and Zeus and his family became the _______ .
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The idea of the son rising up to _______ the father, causing a _______ , is pretty common in a number of creation stories.
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Summarize one of the world’s oldest creation stories from the Enuma Elish from Babylonia:
Summarize one of the world’s oldest creation stories from the Enuma Elish from Babylonia:
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Once again, we see that a parent is divided up to create the physical world; often this division is described as a _______ , and used to explain _______ we find in many religions.
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In general, the world’s creation myths include some kind of ___________________.
In general, the world’s creation myths include some kind of ___________________.
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In the 1970s, British scientist James Lovelock updated the myth in a scientific ___________________,
In the 1970s, British scientist James Lovelock updated the myth in a scientific ___________________,
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defining “Mother Earth”, under her Greek name, ______________,
defining “Mother Earth”, under her Greek name, ______________,
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as “a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a _________________
as “a complex entity involving the Earth’s biosphere, atmosphere, oceans, and soil; the totality constituting a _________________
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or __________________ system
or __________________ system
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which seeks an optimal physical and chemical ____________________ for life on this planet.”
which seeks an optimal physical and chemical ____________________ for life on this planet.”
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Coeus, Crius, Theia, Rhea, Memory, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus (God of Time) are beings called the _______________.
Coeus, Crius, Theia, Rhea, Memory, Phoebe, Tethys, and Cronus (God of Time) are beings called the _______________.
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Why might people want to characterize Earth as a mother rather than a father?
Why might people want to characterize Earth as a mother rather than a father?
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Knowing that he needed to unseat his father and the other Titans, and also to set his siblings free from daddy’s tummy, ___________ released the fifty-headed hecatoncheires, and together, they went to war.
Knowing that he needed to unseat his father and the other Titans, and also to set his siblings free from daddy’s tummy, ___________ released the fifty-headed hecatoncheires, and together, they went to war.
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He also freed Rhea’s other children, and together, they defeated the Titans, and Zeus and his family became the __________ ___ ___ ___________.
He also freed Rhea’s other children, and together, they defeated the Titans, and Zeus and his family became the __________ ___ ___ ___________.
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The idea of the son rising up to _________________ the father,
The idea of the son rising up to _________________ the father,
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causing a _______ __ _______, is pretty common in a number of creation stories.
causing a _______ __ _______, is pretty common in a number of creation stories.
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Summarize one of the world’s oldest creation stories from the Enuma Elish from Babylonia:
Summarize one of the world’s oldest creation stories from the Enuma Elish from Babylonia:
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Once again, we see that a parent is divided up to create the physical world; often this division is described as a ________________
Once again, we see that a parent is divided up to create the physical world; often this division is described as a ________________
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and used to explain ______________ _______________ we find in many religions.
and used to explain ______________ _______________ we find in many religions.