Humanities Wk3 Assignment
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Divine Roles Across Cultures Matrix
Select one common divine role that recurs in world mythology.
Possible options of divine roles include the following: father or mother divinities, divinities of war, home or hearth divinities, divinities of love, divinities of wisdom, divinities of medicine or health, divinities of the wind, divinities of agriculture, divinities of the sky, ruler of all the gods, and so on.
Identify the role in the title of your matrix.
Select two myths, each from a different culture, in which the divine role appears. Identify the divinity names and cultures in columns A and B.
Complete the matrix by answering each of the five questions for both selected divinities.
Title: Divinities of Love and Beauty
Column A
Divinity Name: Aphrodite
Culture of Origin: Greek
Column B
Divinity Name: Freyja
Culture of Origin: Norse
1. How is this divinity portrayed? Describe the divinity’s role within the myth.
She was portrayed to be the goddess of love and beauty often shown smiling. She is the daughter of Zeus. Some myths also say they daughter of Uranus (Aphrodite, 2002). One of the more known and told myth is her helping Paris to abduct his love Helen of Troy.
She was the goddess of love, lust, fertility and magic. According to Freyja (1996), she is believed to be the daughter of the sea god Njord and the earth-goddess Nerthus. She had a twin brother named Frey. Some believe that she was married to Od and once he passed away she never married again and used her powers to have sex with gods, mortals, dwarfs, giants and dwarfs. Others say that she is the same person as Frigg who is wife to Odin (Freyja, 1996).
2. Is the divinity male or female? What function does this gender play?
Aphrodite is female. Her gender function would be the sexual aspect of the myth surrounding her because she is known for seduction.
Freyja was a female who was the goddess of lust and love.
3. Within the
Divine Roles Across Cultures Matrix
Select one common divine role that recurs in world mythology.
Possible options of divine roles include the following: father or mother divinities, divinities of war, home or hearth divinities, divinities of love, divinities of wisdom, divinities of medicine or health, divinities of the wind, divinities of agriculture, divinities of the sky, ruler of all the gods, and so on.
Identify the role in the title of your matrix.
Select two myths, each from a different culture, in which the divine role appears. Identify the divinity names and cultures in columns A and B.
Complete the matrix by answering each of the five questions for both selected divinities.
Title: Divinities of Love and Beauty
Column A
Divinity Name: Aphrodite
Culture of Origin: Greek
Column B
Divinity Name: Freyja
Culture of Origin: Norse
1. How is this divinity portrayed? Describe the divinity’s role within the myth.
She was portrayed to be the goddess of love and beauty often shown smiling. She is the daughter of Zeus. Some myths also say they daughter of Uranus (Aphrodite, 2002). One of the more known and told myth is her helping Paris to abduct his love Helen of Troy.
She was the goddess of love, lust, fertility and magic. According to Freyja (1996), she is believed to be the daughter of the sea god Njord and the earth-goddess Nerthus. She had a twin brother named Frey. Some believe that she was married to Od and once he passed away she never married again and used her powers to have sex with gods, mortals, dwarfs, giants and dwarfs. Others say that she is the same person as Frigg who is wife to Odin (Freyja, 1996).
2. Is the divinity male or female? What function does this gender play?
Aphrodite is female. Her gender function would be the sexual aspect of the myth surrounding her because she is known for seduction.
Freyja was a female who was the goddess of lust and love.
3. Within the
References: Aphrodite. (2002). In Who 's who in classical mythology, Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.credoreference.com.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/content/entry/routwwcm/aphrodite/0 Freyja. (1996). In Bloomsbury dictionary of myth. Retrieved from http://search.credoreference.com.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/content/entry/bloommyth/freyja/0