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Mrs. Plummer
English 10 Honors
March 24, 2016
Overview
Africa and the Middle East are both 3rd world country that are looked
upon as low class parts of the world that goes threw a lot. Africa and the
Middle East have a deep and elevated culture and history behind their
country that people that live there have hope and live by everyday.
Anansi asks a God for some corn and promises to repay him with 100 servants.
He takes the corn to a village and tells the people that it is sacred. During the night, Anansi feeds
the corn to the village chickens. The next day, he accuses the villagers of stealing the corn, so they
give him a bushel of corn to make up for the lost corn.
Anansi next meets a man on a road and trades the corn for a chicken. He visits another village and
tells the people that the chicken is afraid. That night Anansi kills the chicken, and the next morning
the frightened villagers give him ten sheep for the lost of the chicken.
Anansi later exchanges the sheep for a dead human body, which he brings to the third village and
tells the people that it is the sleeping son of God. When the villagers cannot wake up the corpse the
next morning, Anansi says they have killed God's son. The scared villagers offered him 100 of their
young boys, and Anansi takes them to the God to pay him back, therefore fulfilling his part of the
deal.
Moses with a staff came to a calling burning bush in which God gave the staff its powers. It was
used to produce water from a rock when God commanded Moses to strike a rock with the staff
to create a spring for the Israelites to drink from, it could transform into a snake and back, and
it was used at the parting of the Red Sea. Moses also uses the staff in the battle at Rephidim
between the Israelites and the Amalekites. When he holds up the "rod of God"(staff) the
Israelites "prevail", when he drops it their enemies gain the upper hand, so he kept the staff
up until the Israelites won the battle.
Citation
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Am-Ar/Anansi.html
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+7
http://www.egyptianmyths.net/mythisis.htm
Character archetype:
Person in Distress
-In July 1905, rebellion broke out in the area south of Dar es Salaam , against the newly instituted recruitment for compulsory work on
the German cotton and sisal plantations. The senior German officer in command, Major Johannes, set out from Dar es Salaam and
on 5 August captured Mohoro, where he arrested the two men who were locally regarded as the instigators of the rebellion.
majimaji (africa)
- his ability to raise the spirits of the dead so that a man could see his own ancestors,the germans hanged bokero and
colleague.before hitting his body, and be harmless. Some women also took it, notably the Jumbess Mkomanira. The rebellion affected
almost a quarter of the country and lasted for two years, until the summer of 1907, when the Jumbess Mkomanira was captured and
hanged. Over a hundred thousand people died in the war, most of them from starvation.
- Majimaji background info-was an armed rebellion against German colonial rule in german east africa. The war was triggered by a
German policy designed to force the indigenous population to grown cottonfor export, and lasted from 1905 to 1907.
After the the search of africa among the major European powers in the 1880s, Germany had reinforced its hold on several formal
African colonies
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Situational archetype
/birth and rebirth
The Boshongo(Bantu Tribe) believed that in the beginning there was only water, darkness, and the god Bumba. One day
Bumba had a pain in his stomach, it was so painful he threw up the sun. The sun dried up most of the water leaving dry
land. Bumba still felt a stomach ache and threw up the moon, the stars and a few animals. Some of the animals the great
god threw up was the leopard, the crocodile, and the turtle. He also threw up some men. He rebirthed by creating more
human and flesh
By Samantha Soldano and Garrett Vanhorn
Symbolic archetype
/supernatural intervention
The BaTonga people have lived peaceful by the Zambezi river for hundreds of years. In 1956 the
Kariba Dam project began ruining their peaceful living. The BaTangas were told that they had to
relocate. Once told that they had to move they summoned Nyaminyami, the Zambezi river chief.
The BaTangas knew that Nyaminyami disapproved of the construction of the dam. It is said that
Nyaminyami is a half man half horse with fish eyes and a hard head. A thousand year flood was
recorded in 1957, it killed several workers and stopped the construction of the dam. For days, the
relatives of the workers wait for the human remains of their loved ones, The Elders of the the
BaTonga tribe explained that only a sacrifice to Nyaminyami would help the gods displeasure with
the dam. Later, a calf was slaughtered for sacrifice, the next day the bodies of the workers were
found. The dam was not completed
citations
My citations were from
http://www.worldoftales.com/African_folktales.html
Sekhmet was born for war. She protects Ra when he fears that man will conquer him. SHe
creates pools of blood to terrify the people and make the water undrinkable. In one myth,
her temper nearly wiped out humankind. Ra had learned that the Mortals were plotting
against him, so she sent Sekhmet to dish out punishment. She kept killing and killing, and
she wouldnt stop because she was enjoying the carnage so very much. Worried that she
would wipe out the whole area, Ra dyed some beer red and poured in into the fields. While
in her rampage, she continued killing and licked up blood from the bodies. Doing that, she
intoxicated herself and she passed out.
Symbolic archetype/heaven
-The
loved people and will work for their benefit
vsMalaika
hell
-the malaika worked for God and fought against evil,God created them
specially so that they might keep people on the straight path by sitting
on their right shoulders and whispering in their ears what they should
do or not do. They were created from the light,they always obeyed God
-God sent the Angel Mikail to defeat a very powerful evil spirit. Mikail
appeared in his full heavenly glory,he defeated the most powerful
demon from hell, mikail is one of God's most best angel.
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