The ethnogonic creation myth of Hayk has cosmogonic character.

Basso: Willingly admits what he doesn’t understand about the culture he is studying Notes that he will never be able to full grasp the people’s cultural idioms  Does not assume that his idea of “common sense” will be applied by everyone; he knows that common sense is culturally specific

Ask yourself how you define “wisdom”

God (the creator) creates man (in His own image). Therefore, man sees God as he sees himself (as a man). Women are created as helpers to Man. Man is assigned dominion and controller of nature. Woman (Eve) is foolish and listens to nature (i.e., the serpent). Then humans are punished and set to toil the earth. Work is seen as a punishment to man. What values do you see that differ between Native American creation myths and Judeo-Christian creation myths?

“dominion”

Myths among some Apache groups are a unique type of storytelling that we call, “placemaking.”

“Narratives are necessarily emplotted in a way that life is not. Thus, they necessarily distort life whether or not the evidence upon which they are abased could be proved correct” (Trouillot 1995, 6).

“Placemaking” whereby the story-telling connects their cultural stories to a physical location that can be visited.

A myth is a sacred story that reflects and reinforces a community’s worldview.

attempting to write down these previously unwritten myths and stories. In so doing, Anthropologists coined the word ‘folklore’ – since these had been traditional oral traditions passed down from generation to generation.

The verbal arts include myths, folklore, narratives, dramas, poetry, incantations, proverbs riddles, word-games, even things like naming procedures, compliments and insults!

Anthropologists define “art” as, “symbolic representations of thought, feeling and ideas.” Art is central to the foundation, establishment, and maintenance of all human societies.