American Floods: Crash Course World Mythology #18
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Date: 2022-04-04
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MegaChickenfish
The common thread about blaming bad things on our misdeeds makes sense. Mythology has always been about putting answers where we had none in an attempt to feel more in control of the world around us. These floods as punishment for human misdeeds are basically the same as people being convinced throwing a virgin into a volcano will make it not erupt. By having _something we could do about it_, we were soothed, even if the effect was a placebo.
Frankly it also explains why these myths have endured even after we've found better explanations, -because they're more comforting answers. - What sounds nicer to you, that sometimes floods will happen and destroy everything you know and love for no reason and there's nothing you can do about them, or that floods happen because you haven't made enough sacrifices to Ut'ut'pu'pu, the god of the waves?
Even today religion endures because of its more comforting answers and promises. Assuring its members that they'll be able to escape death into some invisible realm is the most popular, obviously because it's the hardest to disprove.
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The common thread about blaming bad things on our misdeeds makes sense. Mythology has always been about putting answers where we had none in an attempt to feel more in control of the world around us. These floods as punishment for human misdeeds are basically the same as people being convinced throwing a virgin into a volcano will make it not erupt. By having _something we could do about it_, we were soothed, even if the effect was a placebo.
Frankly it also explains why these myths have endured even after we've found better explanations, -because they're more comforting answers. - What sounds nicer to you, that sometimes floods will happen and destroy everything you know and love for no reason and there's nothing you can do about them, or that floods happen because you haven't made enough sacrifices to Ut'ut'pu'pu, the god of the waves?
Even today religion endures because of its more comforting answers and promises. Assuring its members that they'll be able to escape death into some invisible realm is the most popular, obviously because it's the hardest to disprove.
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Mari
Actually, the myth in the thought bubble is missing a little part of the story. Originalyhumans were made made of mud and clay but the god realized that the mud bas too soft and wouldn't hold together so he destroyed them and started over, there is when th story in the thought bubble kicks in, with the new humans made of wood that eventually would need replacement. Also, if anyone is wondering why corn, it's basically because the diet was based on corn. They took literally the -You are what you eat- saying.
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Actually, the myth in the thought bubble is missing a little part of the story. Originalyhumans were made made of mud and clay but the god realized that the mud bas too soft and wouldn't hold together so he destroyed them and started over, there is when th story in the thought bubble kicks in, with the new humans made of wood that eventually would need replacement. Also, if anyone is wondering why corn, it's basically because the diet was based on corn. They took literally the -You are what you eat- saying.
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Tim
Probably already said, but the Jewish/Christian version explicitly says Noah 'sinned' after his flood, but unlike the Aztec man, who disobeys directly, Noah just gets drunk and sleeps naked. (Sin? Maybe) But Noah is no perfect specimen. And if Noah is imperfect, what about his son?
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Probably already said, but the Jewish/Christian version explicitly says Noah 'sinned' after his flood, but unlike the Aztec man, who disobeys directly, Noah just gets drunk and sleeps naked. (Sin? Maybe) But Noah is no perfect specimen. And if Noah is imperfect, what about his son?
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Shady
Way late to the game but the Aztec Empire did coexist with Mayan society. Cortes came and toppled the Aztec empire in the 16th century but the last Mayan city-state survived until the 18th century.
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Way late to the game but the Aztec Empire did coexist with Mayan society. Cortes came and toppled the Aztec empire in the 16th century but the last Mayan city-state survived until the 18th century.
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Sherry
I was gunna be so upset if you didn-t include mesoamerica flood myths. I didn-t even know there were other flood myths beside Noah until I went to the pyramids in Mexico.
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I was gunna be so upset if you didn-t include mesoamerica flood myths. I didn-t even know there were other flood myths beside Noah until I went to the pyramids in Mexico.
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IAmAStreamerToo
I am starting to believe a worldwide flood DID happen. That humans could NOT example it. Blamed it on god(s. I just need something from geology to confirmed it.
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I am starting to believe a worldwide flood DID happen. That humans could NOT example it. Blamed it on god(s. I just need something from geology to confirmed it.
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Dimitri
2: 14
A wooden man sits inside of a wooden house.
Is the house made of flesh or is he made of house?
He screams for he does not know.
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2: 14
A wooden man sits inside of a wooden house.
Is the house made of flesh or is he made of house?
He screams for he does not know.
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