The Taino myth of the cursed creator - Bill Keegan
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Before the world of humans began, there was the world of the gods. Four brothers wandered this celestial realm. One day, the brothers snuck into a spirit’s house and spotted a giant gourd hanging in the corner. But as they tried to look inside the gourd, they dropped it. It broke apart, releasing a deluge that formed a new world. Bill Keegan details the Taino myth of Deminan and the sea.
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- Educator Bill Keegan
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Myths are traditional stories that usually involve supernatural beings. They describe where people came from, how they should behave, and the proper order of things. This type of storytelling is found in all societies, and even today early childhood often includes fables, legends, and nursery rhymes. Why are myths and storytelling so important in people’s lives?
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Harry Connerty
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myths and storytelling is so important in people's lives because myths are traditional stories that usually involve supernatural human beings.
Saoirse Exton
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Myths and storytelling are one of the only ways we stay connected with our past. If we do not continue to tell our stories, we will be forgotten in the mists of time. If we forget our past, history will repeat itself, as we will not learn from past mistakes.
Glen Maduro III
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I think myths purposes are to create pride and imagination for people for them to believe what might have happened in the early years of life on earth. They might also help people to know there what happen in their families lifetime or even help them find out where they could be from to put thoughts in peoples head about that.
jibin song
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I think it's for the purpose of creating a national spirit and for the pride of the country and the people of our fathers.
And mythology can be a very important historical foundation.
Most myths seem to be fictional, but if you look at each one like an onion, you can imagine what's going on and what people's minds were like in this period.
And as the Bible says that the more difficult and difficult the world is, the more thirst for the right "value" seems to be, the more important it is for telling the right story to be because it satisfies what is needed for man, and because it give
