Social Orders and Creation Stories: Crash Course World Mythology #5

Myths often tend to focus on dualities, or _________________,

and one of the key ones we find is a ____________________ between men and women.

And this binary opposition frequently sets women as _______________________ to men.

How does Genesis 2 in the Bible explain the creation of man and woman?

This passage also explains ____________________

and describes a ________ _______ in which men leave their parents’ household when they marry to have their own homes.

One way to interpret this is that it provides _____________________

for man’s __________ over women as punishment for what one woman did in disobeying God.

How does Greek mythology create a similar rationale for misogyny with the story of Pandora?

This concept that a social order of male dominance and female ______________________

resulting from women acting out of turn is ________ _________________ to the Biblical or Greek tradition;

we find a similar story in _________________.

This rationale established male _______________________ and female subservience.

There is often a strong connection between myths and __________________.

The Biblical, Japanese, and Greek explanations ______________________

for human toil, pain, and disease on ______________.