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Join us for part four of the Hero's Journey: Myths. You know what isn't a myth? That this video is going to be the best part of your day. That's a fact. And also maybe a lie. Who knows, really?
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey minutes I'll
- 00:08
ashman What our mitts and how do they differ from
- 00:14
one culture to the next Myths are really powerful stories
- 00:18
that have some kind of explanatory power in a culture
- 00:22
so all cultures have myths some are supernatural and others
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- 00:27
are But you can kind of think of myths as
- 00:30
those stories that get circulated again and again and people
- 00:33
sort of tell them in a way that helps explain
- 00:35
something about the world So sometimes they're supernatural like the
- 00:39
mythology of how the world was created in seven days
- 00:43
or the mythology of you know odysseus navigating scylla and
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charybdis which are you know magical creatures that live in
- 00:51
the ocean which help explain for dangerous ocean is but
- 00:54
sometimes myths also could be based on real events right
- 00:57
So we have this mythology in the united states about
- 01:00
kind of the founding of america and how these all
- 01:02
brilliant men came together to create this new democracy Or
- 01:07
you know you might even have a myth in your
- 01:09
school or in your family you know about how mom
- 01:11
and dad met or something that the principal did and
- 01:16
thie stories get told again and again because they help
- 01:19
us Sort of understand the world that we live in
- 01:20
in a simplified way What our mitts and how do 00:01:26.764 --> [endTime] they differ from one culture to the next
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