Question:
What holds the sky up and prevents it from falling to
the earth? Why do the tides rise and fall?
You
may have answered these questions based on scientific
discoveries made by man in recent centuries. Mythology
is the way people answered these questions before the
advent of science.
Mythology
often involved supernatural beings like Gods to explain
the wonders of the world and how the world was created.
Research:
What are the major mythologies in the world
that survives today?
Most
societies today in the world have their own Mythology
that they have inherited from their past. Besides just
providing answers to the people, Mythology also
gave inspiration to the people, and told the people
of happenings outside what humans were able to see.
Read:
The Norse Pantheon.
Think:
Note that the Norsemen included the Vikings who were
a race of warriors. How did their mythology explain
the world to them, and how did it give them inspiration
to fight?
End
of Lesson 1.
