ASTRONOMY 9: HISTORY OF COSMOLOGY

Assignment #2

2000 January 21

Reading Assignment

Sproul, Primal Myths. Please read the following myths from Siberia and the Americas before class on Monday:

• Alasark Buryats: When Burkhan Came Down from Heaven
• Eskimo: The Creation
• Chuckchi: Creator Makes Men and Animals
• Maidu: In the Beginning
• Cupeno: A Bag Hung in Space
• Salishan/Sahaptin: Making the World and People
• Blood: The Creation of Man
• Assiniboine: The Making of Men and Horses
• Cherokee: How the World was Made
• Jicarilla Apache: In the Beginning Nothing Was Here
• Hopi: The Emergence
• Quiche Maya: From the Popul Vuh
• Inca: Ordering the World
• Jivaro: The Nuhino or Earth Story
• Mundurucu: The People Climbed Out

Journal Assignment

Due: Friday, 1/28 at the beginning of class.
Create your own origin (or ``no-origin'', if you prefer) myth, using metaphors of your choice to express in a transcendent way some of the important aspects of your own ``cosmic order''. (Use your imagination!) What does your myth have in common with the myths we have read in class? How is it different?

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