Social Orders and Creation Stories: Crash Course World Mythology #5
In which Mike Rugnetta sits you down for a little talk about myth as a way to construct or reinforce social orders. Specifically, we're going to look today at stories from around the world...
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Hi I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crashcourse Mythology and today, rather than focus on how the earth and what’s around it was created, we’re going to look specifically at what’s on it, more specifically people, and even more specifically, men and women. People. Also the occasional animal. No, not you Thoth. You’re a god with an animal head, it’s different. Anyway, we’re going to see how myths explain our origins and our relationships with each other, or at least how they try to explain them. It’s couples therapy, myth style. INTRO Myths don’t usually incorporate contemporary ideas of gender fluidity, although sometimes they do--Tireisias, ancient seer, I’m looking at you. As we’ve seen from the Chinese and Zoroastrian creation stories, ...
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Hi I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crashcourse Mythology and today, rather than focus on how the earth and what’s around it was created, we’re going to look specifically at what’s on it, more specifically people, and even more specifically, men and women. People. Also the occasional animal. No, not you Thoth. You’re a god with an animal head, it’s different. Anyway, we’re going to see how myths explain our origins and our relationships with each other, or at least how they try to explain them. It’s couples therapy, myth style. INTRO Myths don’t usually incorporate contemporary ideas of gender fluidity, although sometimes they do--Tireisias, ancient seer, I’m looking at you. As we’ve seen from the Chinese and Zoroastrian creation stories, ...
