Primitive Fears, Universal Understanding

DIRECTIONS: Trace the development of myths and folklore between 7th and 4th millennium B.C. by
completing the details of the given matrix below.

MYTHO-GENETIC CONTRIBUTION TO INFLUENCE TO PANTHEON

ZONE CIVILIZATION MYTHOLOGY AND
FOLKLORE

● MESOPOTAM
IA
a. Sumeri Cuneiform Anunnaki Anu
ans
b. Akkadi Empire- Building Hero myths Marduk
ans
c. Amorit Dynasty Babylon Marduk
es
d. Assyria Administration Epic of Gilgamesh Ashur
ns

● EGYPT Mummification a. Polytheism Ra. Anubis

b. The concept of
the afterlife

● GREECE The cult of Dionysus as Gods and goddesses Zeus

ritual endowed with human
traits

● INDIA Rig Veda Mahabharata Indra

Ramayana

● NORTHERN Prose Eddas Norse Odin, “All Father”

EUROPE