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Creation myths are not just stories but provide important insights into human nature. They help orient people in time and space by providing a temporal and spatial anchor. While philosophers may seek a detached, objective view, creation myths show that all perspectives come from somewhere and reflect human needs to understand our place in the world.

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Annotating

Creation myths are not just stories but provide important insights into human nature. They help orient people in time and space by providing a temporal and spatial anchor. While philosophers may seek a detached, objective view, creation myths show that all perspectives come from somewhere and reflect human needs to understand our place in the world.

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Annotating 101

Ms. Pearcy

Creation Myths: Not Just Stories (Paragraph 1)


Over the past few weeks Ive been thinking about creation myths. By calling them
myths it allows us to overlook, dismiss, or ignore them. This is a mistake. We
should think hard about what these myths do and how they work. They are not
just quaint relics of a pre-scientific past. They are not just stories to be studied as
folklore. The universality of such myths is telling us something important about
what it means to be human. People apparently need creation myths. Why?

Creation Myths: Not Just Stories (Paragraph 1) Annotated


Over the past few weeks Ive been thinking about creation myths. By calling them

myths it allows us to overlook, dismiss, or ignore them. This is a mistake. We


should think hard about what these myths do and how they work. They are not

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just quaint relics of a pre-scientific past. They are not just stories to be studied as

This reminds me of a time when I learned about relics in history class


and how it meant that something was old and had value.

Attractively unusual or old-fashioned

folklore.

*The universality of such myths is telling us something important


Traditional beliefs and stories passed down from
generation by word of mouth

about what it means to be human. People apparently need creation myths. Why?

Creation Myths: Not Just Stories (Paragraph 2)


Though there are undoubtedly other reasons, one of the most important surely is
orientation. People need to situate themselves in both time and space. Creation myths
serve this need: they provide a temporal and spatial anchor. This anchoring effect serves as
a powerful reminder that views are never from nowhere. All views are situated. Though
philosophers may aspire to the view from nowhere (which is the equivalent of the view
from everywhere) this is beyond the capacity and interest of most. This aside, the idealistic
and detached view from nowhere surely is an impossibility. All views are from somewhere
and in many cases that somewhere is found in creation myths.

Creation Myths: Not Just Stories (Paragraph 2)


* Though there are undoubtedly other reasons, one of the most important surely is
orientation. People need to situate themselves in both time and space. Creation myths

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E a powerful reminder that views are never from nowhere. All views are situated. Though
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serve this need: they provide a temporal and spatial anchor. This anchoring effect serves as
Wordly; opposed to
spiritual

Of or relating to space

philosophers may aspire to the view from nowhere (which is the equivalent of the view
from everywhere) this is beyond the capacity and interest of most. This aside, the idealistic
and detached view from nowhere surely is an impossibility. All views are from somewhere

This reminds me of a discussion I had


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and in many cases that somewhere is found in creation myths.
with a friend where all opinions,
thoughts, and views come from
something or somewhere.

Your Turn!
Annotate the
remaining
document. Follow
this checklist as a
guideline for the
required
expectations:

Asterisk (*)

Underline (___)

Checkmark ()

Question mark (?)

Circle ()

Exclamation mark (!)

Tilde (~)

Evidence (E)

Annotation Symbols and


Meanings

* - Important

Asterisk (*)
Information that is paramount to the
understanding of the text.

_____ - Keywords / Details

Underline (________)
Words or phrases that link back to the
main idea; essential words or phrases
that relate to the subject of the text.

- I understand

Checkmark ()
Indicates that you as reader understand
a paragraph of the text and can produce
a summary of that paragraph.

? - I dont understand

Question mark (?)


Indicates that you as a reader do not
understand a paragraph of the text and
cannot produce a summary of that
paragraph.

- Possible Vocabulary

Circle ()
Indicates a word of unknown
terminology that you as a reader does
not know. Unknown words must be
defined.

! - Surprised Me

Exclamation mark (!)


Information that caught your attention
or amazed you.

~ - Makes a connection (this reminds me of)


Tilde (~)
Indicates that you are able to relate the text to an
experience you have had; reminds you of something you
have encountered in your life.
In other words, you understand the text well enough in
order to make a connection to yourself.

E - Evidence that supports the main idea

E (E)
Information that serves as a support or
as an example to the main idea of the
text.

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