Presentations

            Group 1

            Fire goddess

1.      Polynesian from Hawaii.

2.      Pala created Hawaii

3.      5 brothers

4.      8 sisters

5.      regeneration

6.      Puna- land

7.      Okpowie

8.      Captures heart of prince (hangs self)

9.      youngest brings prince back to life

10.  makes out with prince, upsets Pala, burns grove

 

Group 2

White Buffalo Woman

1.      Sioux

2.      world made by trickster

a.       half hearted creation

b.      asdf

c.       asdf

d.      willingness to accept loss

e.       asdf

f.       sense of world as being obscure

g.      asdf

3.      walken- scared or holy

4.      2 scouts , climb hill sees white buffalo woman

5.      huge bundle/struck by lighting for being disrespectful

6.      scared pipe

7.      never dieing fire

8.      buffalo represents the universe

 

Group 3

Inanna and Dumuzi

Sumerian

1.      ziggurat

2.      Me laws of heaven and Earth

a.       Stole from father

3.      allegory romance

a.       intense longing

b.      passionate fulfillment

c.       Inanna and Dumuzi hate each other

d.      Sent to underworld

 

 

 

Group 4

A Taste of Earth

Vietnamese

1.      Dragon Prince and Au co.

2.      creators of people

3.      couldn’t fly back cried creator of vegetation

4.      elementary nurturing goddess

 

 

Group 5

Kali Beheaded

Hindu

1.      perfect but then prostitute

2.      All four types of goddess wrapped up into one

3.      fundamental

4.      transmigrates- samsara- life and rebirth

 

 

Group 6

Gnostic

1.      medical group of Christianity

2.      Way different theory on the basic Christian creation story.