02.27 - Norse Creation Story

At the beginning of class today, we reviewed our discussion from yesterday and revisited the world map to look at the location of the Norse creation myth (see below). We also talked about a question that came up yesterday with respect to why people have different skin colors if the human race started out in one location (click the link for an explanation)

(the yellow pin in the upper center of the picture marks the general region of this story)

In class, we also talked about how population was very different at the time in which these stories were written. Around 8,000 BCE the world's population was about 5 million people. Today (as of around 2014 CE) the world's population is about 7 billion (click here to see this information as a graph).

Everyone then had about 20 minutes to complete a creation note sheet for the Norse myth.

We then spent about 10 minutes discussing and comparing the Babylonian/Sumerian creation story and the Norse creation story. Everyone handed in their note sheets for these stories at the end of class.

Handouts:

Hindu creation story

Creation story note sheet
Creation story note sheet instructions

Homework:

Read the Hindu creation story on pages 325-330 in the World Mythology book.

Complete missing work and revise any assignment that scored below a 92.

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