Western Literature Week 16

WASP: Whit Anglo-Saxon Protestant or a boat in Sturat Little

Sodom and Gomorrah 

Sodom and Gomorrah were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and in the deuterocanonical Book of Wisdom, as well as in the Qur'an and hadith.

According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim and Bela.

Orpheus and Eurydice

Charon: In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. 

Back from the Underworld: Orpheus, Aeneas, Odysses, PsycheOrpheus goes to find his wife.Aeneas goes to pay a duty call on his dead father Anchises.Odysseus goes to the Underworld for help getting home.Psyche goes to complete the task from Aphrodite.

The Fall

In Christian theology, the fall of man, or the fall, is a term used to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Although not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis chapter 3. At first, Adam and Eve lived with God in the Garden of Eden, but the serpent tempted them into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating from the tree of life and becoming immortal.  For many Christian denominations the doctrine of the fall is closely related to that of original sin. They believe that the fall brought sin into the world, corrupting the entire natural world, including human nature, causing all humans to be born into original sin, a state from which they cannot attain eternal life without the grace of God.

Prometheus and Pandora

Henceforth, humans would keep that meat for themselves and burn the bones wrapped in fat as an offering to the gods. This angered Zeus, who hid fire from humans in retribution. In this version of the myth, the use of fire was already known to humans, but withdrawn by Zeus.Prometheus, however, stole fire back in a giant fennel-stalk and restored it to humanity. This further enraged Zeus, who sent Pandora, the first woman, to live with humanity. Pandora was fashioned by Hephaestus out of clay and brought to life by the four winds, with all the goddesses of Olympus assembled to adorn her. "From her is the race of women and female kind," Hesiod writes; "of her is the deadly race and tribe of women who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble, no helpmeets in hateful poverty, but only in wealth."

Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel is an etiological myth in the Book of Genesis of the Tanakh (also referred to as the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament) meant to explain the origin of different languages. According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar. There they agreed to build a city and tower; seeing this, God confounded their speech so that they could no longer understand each other and scattered them around the world.

Vocabulary and word

Fra: to smash to pieces, to shatter

• fragile(a.): easily broken or damaged; very delicate; not strong
• fragment(n.): a broken part of something; an incomplete part
• frail(a.): having less than a normal amount of strength or force; very weak; easily damaged or destroyed
• frailty(n.): physical weakness; the quailty or state of being frail; weakness of character that causes a person to do things thats are morally wrong

Mor: death, dead

• immortal(a.): not capapble of dying; living forever
• immortality(n.): the quality or state of someone or something that will never die or be forgotten; the quality or state of being immortal
• morgue(n.): a place where the bodies of dead people are kept until they are buried or cremated
• mortician(n.): a person whose job is to prepare dead people to be buried and to arrange and manage funerals
• mortify(v.): to cause(someone) to feel very embarrassed and foolish

Raven:Omen

scarecrow

strawhatdrinking straw