Purpose of Myth Review

1. Four fundamental questions from the myth are "What's the nature of the universe in which I live?", "How do I relate to that universe?", "How much control do I have on my own life?", and "What must I do in order to survive?" 
2. Four possible themes in world mythology can be "The first parents are often the gods of sky and earth", "Heroes are children of gods who have an unusual birth", "The creator-god usually fashions the first humans of being parts of the Earth", and "In the world as in nature, birth, maturity, and death are often followed by rebirth".
3. For most major cultures, the creation of the universe was a chaotic, formless mass that god or pair of gods separated.
4. Hero myths and epics teach members of society appropriate attitudes, behavior, and values of that culture.
5. Ordinary people identify with heroes because they have weaknesses and imperfections that allow ordinary people to identify them.
6. The foundation of the Matriarchal Society was based on the agricultural year. Normally men are the ones in who dominate, but there was a point where women were the dominating ones.
7. Sigmund Freud's viewed myths as an expression of the individual's unconscious wishes, fears, and drives.
8. Myths demonstrate that people posses the intellectual capacity to understand the world in which they live in.