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is a creation myth because it
focuses on characters whom the Iroquois considered "gods."
is an Iroquoian story about people and animals who talk to each other.
explains how the Iroquois believe that the earth was created.
describes Iroquoian social and cultural values.
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Statements 2, 3, and 4 are correct; statement 1 is misleading.
- 2 (true): Iroquoian creation stories feature people and animals that speak and act with personhood (e.g., Sky Woman and the animals who help).
- 3 (true): the tale explains how the earth was created (Sky Woman falling to a watery world, animals creating land on the turtle’s back).
- 4 (true): the myth encodes Iroquoian social and cultural values (relations with animals, roles of women, cooperation, cosmology).
- 1 (misleading): calling the characters “gods” imposes a Eurocentric term. The figures are better understood as spirit beings or important mythic persons (Sky Woman, the twin brothers, animal helpers), not necessarily “gods” in the Western sense.
- 2 (true): Iroquoian creation stories feature people and animals that speak and act with personhood (e.g., Sky Woman and the animals who help).
- 3 (true): the tale explains how the earth was created (Sky Woman falling to a watery world, animals creating land on the turtle’s back).
- 4 (true): the myth encodes Iroquoian social and cultural values (relations with animals, roles of women, cooperation, cosmology).
- 1 (misleading): calling the characters “gods” imposes a Eurocentric term. The figures are better understood as spirit beings or important mythic persons (Sky Woman, the twin brothers, animal helpers), not necessarily “gods” in the Western sense.
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