Name: 人間と自然と創造クラッシュコース 神話 #6 (Humans and Nature and Creation: Crash Course Mythology #6)
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Hi I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crashcourse Mythology, and today we’re wrapping up creation

Over the past four episodes we’ve seen the universe created from nothing, via the actions

of earth mothers, sky fathers, and of course, vomiting supreme beings.

We’ve seen creation used to explore the relationships between parents and children

And on that note, today, we’re going to examine the earthly interconnection between

INTRO Before we get into the creation myths, let’s

start with a little scientific mythology about man’s best friend.

Dogs were, if not the first, then among the first domesticated animals, and they play

One of the stories that we tell about the domestication of dogs is that it started when

early hunter gatherers chose to tame and then breed some of the less aggressive wolves in

order to increase the hunters’ capacity to capture game.

Eventually, these cross and interbred wolves became dogs.

Any canine that didn’t bite off your hand is a good boy!

It’s a nice story and it seems to make sense, but there are problems with it.

In an article in National Geographic, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods argue that some scientists

are flipping this narrative on its head and saying that it was wolves that sought out

humans, rather than the other way around.

It doesn’t make much sense for humans to try to capture wolves and get them to work

Early hunter gatherers were pretty good at hunting, which is why they might have been

to blame for the destruction of megafauna in the prehistoric world.

Also, why would humans want to share the spoils of the hunt with a wolf?

Hare and Woods explain that scientists think it is more likely that wolves approached humans,

probably by scavenging around their garbage pits.

These would have been the friendliest wolves; aggressive ones would have been killed by

So, it was the friendly wolves that, over many generations, were bred into the loveable

vacuum hating rapscallions that we know and love.

Let’s return, as we so often do, to the Judeo-Christian Biblical story of creation

In Chapter One, after creating the heavens and the earth and the stars and all the animals:

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion

over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over

all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female

(Gen 1 26-27) … And God said, “Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed

which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with every seed in its fruit; you

And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps

on the earth, everything that has breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.”

Sounds like more gardening to me, surprise surprise.

In the second chapter of Genesis, God grants humans control over the other earthly creatures

In this version, God creates man before the animals.

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him

So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air,

and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called

every living creature, that was its name.”

Giraffes and sharks and biting flies were made just to help us.

Both creation stories set up a clear hierarchy in the animal world with human beings at the

top given the power to do whatever they want with all animals below them.

The second version of the story affirms human control over animals in two ways.

First, by having man created prior to the animal kingdom, humans are granted literal

Then, their power is increased over animals by the first man receiving the privilege of

But not all myths about humans and animals employ this strict hierarchy.

In a number of creation stories from Native American tribes animals are partners in creation,

often acting as guides or even as the key participants in creating the earth.

The tribes of what is now the Southwestern United States have creation stories that follow

a model we haven’t yet seen, the emergence myth.

In these stories, humans or creatures that become humans are led from an original underground

world into a series of interim worlds until they emerge into the surface world that is

In a Hopi version of this story, various animals including the Spider Grandmother, and a chipmunk

help to find the entry hole or sipapuni, to the land beyond the sky.

Apparently, there is one of these entry ways in the Grand Canyon.

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人間と自然と創造クラッシュコース 神話 #6 (Humans and Nature and Creation: Crash Course Mythology #6)

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人間と自然と創造クラッシュコース神話 #6 (Humans and Nature and Creation: Crash Course Mythology #6)