SECTION 2 QUIZ - CREATION MYTHS:
1. (10)What is a creation myth?
A creation myth explains the origins of humankind and the evolution of the world around us and
all creation myths have similarities in content. Some examples include the Genisis in the Bible
and The Story of Alta-Hasis.
2. (10) What is emphasized in Northern Native American Creation Myths? (Video)
The relationship of people and mother earth in Native Americans myths is extremely important
throughout their creation myths. The Native American culture give’s enormous gratitude towards
nature and actually believes that animals created the earth for humans, rather than the humans
created earth then nature.
3. (10) PROVIDE AND EXAMPLE of BIAS from one of our readings.
The form of bias from our book The Norse Myths book is shown on page thirteen of the
introduction when “Kevin Crossley- Holland writes in the first sentence “These heathen men
were Vikings.” This bias comes from the crystallization of Norse myths by monks who believed
the Vikings were less partial to them as a group. There is always a bias in every reading you
encounter and looking for it is extremely essential.
4. (30) Read The Story of Atra-Hasis (Akkadian) and answer the following questions:
A. How are the reasons for creating man (and woman?) different from those given in
Genesis? What differences do you see in the relations between men and gods?
From the Story of Atra-Hasis the Gods created humans first, and the gods afterwards. The
reason for this was to suppress the anger between the classes of gods. They created humans to
