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| Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of America. Their name means "People of the Tides." We see them in the Raven. The Raven is the chief god for the Tlingits. |
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A river in northern British Columbia, Canada. The English name "Nass" is derived from theTlingit name Naas which means "intestines" or "guts" in reference to the river's large food capacity in its fish. |
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| A trickster figure. Chief god of the Tlingit people. Shape shifter. Raven establishes what people will eat. He is therefore a culture hero. |
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| Used in the Tlingit culture. A story in visual form. Many of the Raven stories are depicted by using these. |
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| Raven's father. Taught him to be a creator. |
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| Owns water. Raven steals it by making him think he had an accident by putting dog poop out. Steals water in beak. |
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| Where the Raven escaped from. But the smoke hole spirits trapped him. Petrel set a fire and the soot made the Raven's white feathers turn black. Once he was released the black color of his feathers never went away. This is why ravens are black. |
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| Raven tricked the salmon to come up by using jade ads as a puppet. Eats salmon establishing that people will eat it. |
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| Tricks bear into going fishing with a bird. Convinces bear to castrate himself and fish with it. Raven eats the bear, the bear's wife and the bird's throat. |
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| Falls into pit and is killed. Raven eats it. |
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| Raven and him gather sea urchins. This is why old women get poked. |
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| The Coyote. Native American Indians. Around California and Oregon. |
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| Trickster god like Raven. He has a malleable body (takes off skin), he also cheats at dice. He is a creator god of the Klamath people and is also a culture hero. He steals fire from Thunder. |
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| Coyote steals fire from Thunder. |
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| American mythologist. Best known for comparative mythology. Gave definition for hero in folklore (comparison): Figure appearing in many cultures, leaves everyday world, undergoes journey, overcomes challenges, gets reward, and shares reward with community. |
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| Ancient mythology definition: Someone in whom the gods take interest in. Usually brings fertility, prosperity and luck to the people who worship it. They are neither dead or alive. |
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| female heroes. Looked to to protect children |
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| Liminal figures: between gods and mortals. Live LONG. (kind of like trees) Many different roles. Important in greek religions: woshipped in lower classes and women. Mates of gods, heroes, and others. Nurses of children, helpers of heroes, helpers of women, defenders of land. BUT can be very dangerous to mortals. |
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| Local religion. Worship of heroes: make a sacrifice at their "precinct." Helps bring you fertility, prosperity and luck. |
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| grove, garden, field. Where you bring sacrifices. Libation sacrifice = liquid (wine) |
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| Homeric hero => Homer's Illiad. King of Sparta and brother of Agamemnon (king of Mycenae. Father is Atreus. Uncle is Thyestes. They defeat uncle => return to Sparta then he is crowned king. Marries Helen (of Troy) |
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| City-State in Ancient Greece. It was teh dominant millitary-land power in Greece. Menelaus is king there. |
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| Married to Menelaus. Said to be the reason for the Trojan War because she runs off with Paris (Alexander). Eventually Menelaus gets her back. Helen uses a potion of forgetfulness so Menealus won't remember what she had done. They become immortal by being worshipped in Sparta. |
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| Began due to the quarrel at Helen adn Menelaus' wedding. "Who was the most beautiful?" Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite. Paris has to judge, but ends up being a contest on gifts. Aprhodite offers up Helen so Paris chose her. Helen leaves to go to Troy. Menelaus begins Trojan War. Goes on for MANY years. |
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| Roman: Hercules. Son of Zues and greatest of the Greek heroes. He is the anger of Hera. She curses him with madness because Zues had him with another woman. His madness causes him to kill his wife, Megera, and his children. Delphic Oracle tells him 12 labors will clense him of his sins. Athena is his helper. |
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One of the 12 labors. The skin of this lion cannot be pierced. Heracles kills him with his bare hands.
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| Hesperides are nymphs that live in a garden at the boundary of the world. (One things heroes can do is cross borders.) This is where he tore up the tree, killed the serpent and left nymphs crying. |
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| Heracles captures this three headed dog that guards the underworld. The dog kept the dead in their place. |
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| The death of Heracles. He kills Nessos the centaur after he tried to rape Deianira. But Nessos tricked her and gave her a cloak dipped in a "love charm." She gives it to Heracles so he will never fall in love with another woman, but turns out the cloak is poisoned so it burns him and he dies. He then becomes a god and marries Hebe. |
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