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Oral Tradition I: Creation Narratives and the Shape of Story — Homework
Read or reread "The Earth on Turtle's Back" (or another published version of the Haudenosaunee sky-woman creation narrative) before answering.
- 1.Define "etiological story" in one sentence.
- 2.Identify the repeated pattern (try, fail, try, fail, succeed) in the story and name one other story, from any tradition, that uses a similar repeated pattern.
- 3.Explain why this story having many recorded versions across different tellers is a normal feature of oral tradition rather than a problem.
- 4.Name one way animals are personified in the story and what that personification suggests about the natural world's moral character.
- 5.In five or more sentences, compare this creation narrative to a creation or origin story from any other tradition you know, naming one specific similarity and one specific difference.
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