Exam 2 Study Guide - Plants in Folklore, Myth and Religion | PB 219, Study notes of Botany and Agronomy

Download Exam 2 Study Guide - Plants in Folklore, Myth and Religion | PB 219 and more Study notes Botany and Agronomy in PDF only on Docsity! Symbolic structure: Void Primeval waters where all creation begins. Egyptian Nun Symbolic structure: Water Associated with chaos and disorder leading to creation. Japanese creation Symbolic structure: Primal Egg Contains the universe. Chinese creation: egg contains yin and yang. Heavy parts of the egg become earth, light become sky. Symbolic structure: Earth Diving Supreme being sends animal or person into primal depths to make earth. Iroquois: woman falls from sky into void of water and lands on turtle. A muskrat dives to bring up clay which forms the earth Symbolic structure: World Parents Great Mother and Father create first gods. Children stuck and sick of darkness and separate parents. Maori creation: father rangi and mother papa are pushed apart Symbolic Structure: Emergence from lower worlds Hopi: Evil magic in underworld causes people to climb plants to over world. Roles plants play in creation myths -Route from one world to another -manifestation of divine or sacred -ancestor or source of humans -equivalent to people -symbols of the cosmos Who are the joti and where do they live They are 900 indigenous Venezuelans living in the sierra maigualida mountain range in south- central Venezuela Where is the fertile crescent and what countries compose it South West Asia. Lebanon, Kuwait, Palestine, Syria, Iraq. Inanna Sumerian earth mother, goddess of vegetation, sexual love, fertility and warfare Demeter Greek goddess of fertility, vegetation, grains and harvest The descent of inanna -Taken prisoner by Ereshkigal (sister), queen of the underworld -strikes a deal with ereshkigal so Dumuzi (lover) and Geshtinanna (his sister) take her place (spring/autumn) because no crops gro if inanna stays in the underworld Myth of Demeter and Persephone -Persephone, virgin, abducted by hades and taken to underworld -Demeter searches and the seasons are haulted -zeus sends hermes to get persephone back -Hades agrees, but tricks persephone in to eating a pomegranate. she becomes pregnant and has to stay a third of each year in the underworld What we know/don't know about Eleusinian mysteries -know: held initiation ceremonies and members fasted on the first day -don't know: what is in the hallucinogenic keykeon drink and what happened in the temples during induction How long the Eleusinian mysteries were practiced and who was allowed to partake -3 days to perform ceremonies and rituals -all were allowed to participate What category of plants were likely to be the first domesticated plants and why wild cereals because they can grow easily in open and disturbed areas (dropped, composted) Basic theories of why humans adopted agriculture -A decline in availability of wild game - increased availability of wild plants that could be domesticated -arose among fishermen -dump heap hypothesis Six plants that provide more than 80% of the worlds consumed calories rice, wheat, maize, manioc, potatoes, sweet potatoes Symbolic structures and significant plants of Egypt -Void, water, egg, world parents -Corn, lotus, papyrus, garden Symbolic structures and significant plants of Norse creation -Void -Yggdrasil, Ash and elm trees Symbolic structures and significant plants of Celtic creation myths -Void, world parents -Oak trees, berries Symbolic structures and significant plants of Ceram creation -Plants -Coconuts, tubers Symbolic structures and significant plants of Zulu creation -Plants as source of humans -Reeds Symbolic structures and significant plants of Navajo creation -emerging from underworld -reeds, corn, squash, and beans Joti essence interpenetion plants, fungi, arthropods, birds, animals and mineral water catalyze the ability to walk, swim, see, hear, smell. Purifies and invigorates body, prevents disease and death Origin of people, most animals, plants and mushrooms in joti creation -humans come from plants -animals, plants, and mushrooms were people who chose to become that state Importance of joti body piercing (ear, nasal and septum) -At 10 years, childrens lobes are pierced to help hearing/listening -Septum is initiation to adulthood -Soul survives if the dead has wooden plug Association betwee subsistence strategy and gender of primary deity -Male deity = hunter/gatherer -female deity = agriculture