The Hero's Journey

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Laura Sofía Parra 7A
Birth of Myths
28 de Noviembre 2017

What is a Myth?
From the Greek myths means story or word. Mythology is the study of myth. As stories (or narratives), myths articulate how characters undergo or enact an ordered sequence of events. The term myth has come to refer to a certain genre (or category) of stories that share characteristics that make this genre distinctly different from other genres of oral narratives, such as legends and folktales. Myths are symbolic tales of the distant past (often primordial times) that concern cosmogony and cosmology (the origin and nature of the universe), may be connected to belief systems or rituals, and may serve to direct social action and values.

The Hero's Journey
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Pygmalion, unhappy to hold the power and wanted the riches of his brother-in-law for what he asked his sister to rebel against the hidden place. Elisa did not want to help her brother who indicated a wrong place of the fortune of her husband, Elisa ended up loving and respecting his husband. The story ended in tragedy when Pygmalion murdered Saqueo and went in search of the treasure he would never find. Elisa run away from Tire with her little sister. Elisa did not go to any of the Phoenician colonies of the Mediterranean, she decided to go to unknown lands. Its final destiny was a point of the coasts of the north of Africa populated by the gétulos, a Libyan tribe. Elisa presented herself to her king Jarbas and asked him to give her a piece of land to found a city. According to the legend, the monarch gave an ox skin; that would be the area that would cover your city, he said. Elisa was not intimidated by such provocation. She took the skin, cut it into strips as thin as he could and drew an extensive perimeter in which she constructed a city named Birsa. Elisa was made queen of her new kingdom; his new subjects baptized him with the name of Dido. The end of Dido's life was also legendary. Many versions explain that Dido ended his life by committing suicide; but the reason why he ended his …show more content…
Romulo and Remo their children were thrown into a basket at birth in the river Tiber because King Amulio was killing all the heirs of his throne and at the same time he dethroned his brother Numitor. Then the basket was found somewhere in this river where the children were nursed by a she-wolf (Lupercal) and later they were picked up by Pastor Faustus and cared for by his wife.
Later, when they became adults, they discovered their origin, returned to their hometown, killed Amulio and put his grandfather (Numitor) on the throne. Later the brothers decided to found a city in the place where the basket had run aground. Rowing to see 6 birds in the sky understood that it meant that he had to found it on Aventine instead Romulo to see 12 birds on Mount Platino understood that he should settle his city there. Romulo frame with a plow the limits of the city and swear to kill everyone who crosses there. Rowing under the effect of alcohol passed through the plow, then Romulus had no choice but to kill him. Filled with sadness and regret I buried him in the pit of Mount Platinum and named his
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