Sunday, January 9, 2011

In my World Literature Survey Two class we have read and discussed many things.  In class we read a section of the book Popol Vuh which I found very interesting.  This book was about how the earth evolved and formed life.  When I read chapters one through five, I really didn't know what to think since I grew up in one religion who believes one thing then, I read this section of the book and it makes you look at things so differently.  Reading these chapters I found it to be so interesting and even funny, being that the lands were created and the mountains.  Then later in the chapters the Gods create animals, but when those animals can't speak they move on to wanting to create something or someone that will worship them.  Then the Gods decide they will create the wooden people.  These stories are so hard to believe because when it nears the end of the section of the Popol Vuh, the dogs destroy the wooden peoples faces, the flood, their pots went after them and trees slammed into them. This was a very intriguing story to read and I found it very interesting to know that this was all written down in picture form to praise the Gods.  In the Popol Vuh there is a story about another God named Vucub - Caquix.  This God claimed to be the sun and the moon since those forms hadn't been created which was something so interesting and something I found to be so cool to hear about. This story got unbelievable but then you wonder how these stories came about? Could they be true?

1 comment:

  1. You make an interesting observation about how the stories are not true. I think you are correct that they are not true; however, myths are not read to be true. They are metaphors and symbols of how humans tell stories to make sense of what it is to be alive. We read this stories not for their journalistic qualities, but for their emotional qualities and symbolic qualities so that we can learn more about the worldview of the people of that time.

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