Mythology Blog Fall 2019

I use Wikipedia quite frequently. Whenever I'm studying something and I don't understand it, oftentimes I'll search it on Wikipedia to see if it will help shed some light on my confusion. I also use it a lot when I am writing papers to search for good sources. I did not have a Wikipedia account, nor did I think I would ever have one. I'm too scared to edit stuff on Wikipedia. Maybe after I get my Ph.D. I'll have a little more confidence and try to edit articles that talk about stuff I'm familiar with, but until then I don't think I'll be doing much editing. I don't know which features I'll use, maybe when I get into grad school I'll start following certain posts? I have changed the layout though. I chose the timeless layout because I thought it looked really good.

Image Source Loki and his kids seem so powerful, I wish they would have been included in the movies. For this week's extra credit reading I watched the Creation and Destruction videos. As always, they were really entertaining and very informative. They mention the cyclical nature of creation and destruction since most of these doomsday myths often end with the creation of a new world. This I'm pretty familiar with since the Aztec creation legend has the Earth become destroyed and recreated several times. However, I do not know if the Aztec have an apocalypse story. That might be something interesting to look into. Actually, that might be a great idea. This is just me writing out my thoughts but for my storybook project, I could try to search for an Aztec apocalypse. And then essentially I'll just find a way to have Quetzalcoatl destroy the world except for like Huitzilli and his family and the people of Tollan. In the Aztec stories several of the Gods have caused...

Coyote Today's stories focused a lot on the coyote. I feel like in the past when I've read coyote stories, the coyote is always swift and cunning. However, in these stories, he's pretty dumb. He gets tricked by almost all the other animals and always ends up as the loser. They all must have really hated coyotes lol. I don't have much to write about, I liked yesterday's creation story much more. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912)

The Sun and Moon From today's readings, I really like the one about the creation of the world from the Pima people. The part that really caught my attention, for whatever reason, was the part where he made the sun and the moon. I thought it was a bit strange to see the sun being made from a ball of ice, but I can see how that would make sense. I also liked how they got the sun and moon into the sky. The part where it keeps falling down was a little funny but it was clever how it finally settled in the east. Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest by Katharine Berry Judson (1912)