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

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16 questions
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Myths often tend to focus on dualities, or _________________,

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

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

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

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This passage also explains ____________________

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

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One way to interpret this is that it provides _____________________

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

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

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

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

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we find a similar story in _________________.

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This rationale established male _______________________ and female subservience.

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There is often a strong connection between myths and __________________.

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The Biblical, Japanese, and Greek explanations ______________________

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for human toil, pain, and disease on ______________.