Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Pandora and Orphan boy Curiosity Paragraph


In these Greek and African myths, Pandora and Orphan boy, it teaches us about how curiosity can be dangerous because curiosity sometimes leads to change and change could be either good or bad. In the myth Pandora, when Apollo gave Pandora the box she had to know what was inside because she was too curious. When Pandora opened the box, slimy gross things came out called ‘evil’ and also a little thing called ‘hope’ came out and both of those things changed our world forever. Just like the myth Orphan boy, when Orphan boy came down from the sky to help the old man. But when the old man decided to follow Orphan boy one day, Orphan boy got so mad that he decided to abandon the old man and his cattle to suffer. This myth gave us suffering and appreciation to thank god for what we have. From this day on we all still have the things Pandora and the old man unleashed.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

My Name


My name, I haven’t really thought about my name before. It’s a pretty slow calm name which means princess. My name is Hebrew and it is also the name of Abraham’s wife in the Old Testament. It’s not a thick name but neither is it a thin name, it’s… balanced.
My name is biblical and is really easy to remember. It’s a short common name which can sometimes be teased like Sahara or Zara but truthfully I don’t understand what’s so funny about it. Also, my name can be spelt lots of different ways like Sara, Zara, Sehra, Cera, Cerah, Sarai….It’s uncountable!!!!!!!
My name is angry and mad, happy and sad. It’s a pretty joyful name. I have never hated my name or understood it; and sometimes I feel my name is too simple and should be longer or it should have a different meaning, but a name is a name and there is no changing it.
Truthfully, I don’t know why my parents gave me my name; I guess they thought I was a nice name for their little girl to have. Sarah, that’s what they called me, just Sarah short, plain, and simple.
Sarah, a name that feels like a whirl of sparkling snow, a friend that helps you when you are sad and wobbles wherever you go. If I ever had one chance to change my name, I would pick Sarah. Just plain, Sarah.

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Monday, September 7, 2009

My Common Elements Paragraph


“The roots that clutch” – T.S. Elliot. This explains how creation myths can change in many different ways, but will always stick with its culture. Lots of creation myths have interesting stories and also all of them have common elements and themes like, from chaos or nothingness, state of perfection and also humans from mud/clay. From chaos and nothingness some of the countries that have this element in their myths are China and Egypt. Their ideas are pretty relevant (Start with nothing end with everything) and they both got these ideas even though the countries are far apart and maybe the people in those countries never met each other. Like what I just explained, state of perfection is also the same, both Mayan and Malayan involve state of perfection because in the Mayan myth, Tepeau and Gucumak had to try to make people three times before they finally taught that us, humans were perfect; as for the Malayan myth, Tapir’s life was perfect and everything he did and had was perfect… for a while at least. Chinese and Mayan myths both involve humans from mud/clay and, as I said before, even though they are from very different countries they are still reverent. In the Chinese myth, Phan Ku created people from his fleas but since there are lots of different myths, Nuwa (also from the Chinese creation myth) created people out of mud/clay. As did the Mayan, Tepeau and Gucumak tried three times to make people and on their second try, they used mud/clay but it didn’t work out for them. As you can see, lots of myths from different parts of the world are somehow the same. But that left me wondering, ‘How does everyone think the same even thought they have never met.’

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Why I chose this Quote and Picture

I chose this quote because it seems very meaningful, and when I read a myth I need to, do exactly do what it says here, leave all of my thoughts of the present world behind and think back, on how the world used to be… before time and everything. The full quote is "~ Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before." I only chose a certain part of the quote because I think that specific part is very powerful and explains a lot about the myth.
I Chose this image because it seems to me like it is the beginning of a long journey that begins with a single step; i said this because all journeys have a beginning and need to start somewhere. I also chose this because footprints could go in many different directions just like journeys.