Chapter 4 Review

What does generation mean?

• A group of people born and living at the same time.

• Holy or deserving respect.

• The act of making something new.

• Stiff and inflexible.

Large or great in size.

• Creation

• Vast

• Rigid

• Warp

To bend or twist out of shape.

• Nurture

• Flexible

• Generation

• Warp

What does sacred mean?

• To care for something or someone so that it/he/she flourishes.

• The corn people

• Holy or deserving respect

• Not holy or not deserving respect

To care for something or someone so that it/he/she flourishes.

• Nurture

• Generation

• Vast

• Creation

The act of making something new.

• Rigid

• Creation

• Warp

• New

Stiff and inflexible

• Rigid

• Vast

• Warp

• Generation

What are the characteristics of a myth?

• Explains how and why things happen.

• Makes sense of predictable and unpredictable events.

• Passed on from generation to generation.

• All of the above.

Where are the myths recorded?

• Popol Vuh

• The courthouse

• In a book

• Tepew

What did the Gods of the heavens ask the Gods of Tepew & Q'uk'umatz to do?

• Help build something

• Help create a middle ground between sea and sky.

• Make people

• Go somewhere.