#9 Ted Reaction

I think that this video was extremely eye-opening,  and made me think of a new way to look at myths and mythology. I think that Pattanaik's definition of a myth is slightly different, and he looks at it in two different ways, world-wide or personal. The world differs from my world because different things might matter and the perspective changes with whoever it is. Perspective is all about how people see things from their point of view, so it is sort of like the saying, "one mans trash is another mans treasure".

#12 Define Myth

I think that myths were used to help make sense of the world and how it came to be. Myths, like stories, can be exaggerated, and I think that because no one else had reasoning for what the world really was, people had no choice but to believe it. Different myths surround different cultures, but one thing is the same; they were all trying to understand life and the world.

#7 Reaction to Video

I thought that this was video was pretty informative. They talked about how myths relate to people, and a bit of how they began, which I thought was interesting. Mythology began as stories of the universe, passed down as oral stories by people, most of these stories are about how the world was created and how creatures exist, and why things are the way they are and etc. I agree with the fact that myths can be linked with what it means to be a human being and that myths were created to give a reasoning to why things are what they are, but in reality I believe that the myths are all just stories that come from those with wide imaginations, who were just trying to make sense of the world.

#3 Modern Art and Mythology

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is one example of Greek mythology being a part of our modern art world. First a book series then turned into a movie, Percy Jackson is a demi-god, born from a human mother and Poseidon. The book and movie both have references to other gods, such as Zeus, Athena, and more, Zeus' lightning bolt, Hades and Hell, and Mount Olympus. 

#4 In the Library

The mythology sections in the library can be located under "non-fiction". They are in the non-fiction section because they are might be classified as real, because there is no way to prove whether they are true or not.