Popol Vuh

This is an Mayan theory about how the world was created: the sky, sea, and darkness was already just existing, but there was no living thing nor light. the gods wanted to create something that could praise them, so after that the creation of earth was made by the gods, with light trees, rocks, grass etc., and the base to create living beings that had a will was set. after that the gods created animals, but the animals couldn’t praise the gods so they were eliminated, then the same happened to the wooden man, the gods next creation, they couldn’t praise to them neither, after that 2 gods decided it would be right to kill the god of the sun and his 2 sons, one that created mountains and one that moved them, so they killed them. END. not the best story I’ve read really, if you want a better reading try Beowulf the post is down on this blog. thanks

Trickster Folktales

As in wikipedia says a Trickster i an: "The definition of a trickster according to several sources is: a mischievous supernatural being  found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts. a trickster leads you to believe is something that is not true, it’s a deceiver and cheater that plays tricks on others, more often than not, an animal ."

Trickster play big roll in american and african culture. There are a lot of histories of Trickster in most of the them they show as animals that tricks people to make things that only benefits them. but there are exeptions of stories that put Tricksters as good people that help a town or childrens or things like that.

Stories
Brer Rabbit:  Brer Rabbit causes his own misfortune more often than not; however he posseses the capability of slipping away from trouble. Brer Fox is the name of his nemesis, hes also a trickster that tries to constantly trick the rabbit despite of the rabbit always getting out of it.

Anansi the Spiderand: Anansi the Spider is a god of the West African Ashanti tribe, he ruled and created the first humans. His stories involves, of course, trickery.

Beowulf

There was town were the king all all the warriors everyday make parties were the womans were like a sex toy and all the mens were drunk. One the the Demon Grandel get pissed of because the music was too loud and they don't control them selfs. There wasn's someone tahtcan face the demon, so he go to the town and kill a lot of people and warriors. The new spare fast and warriors of all the world came to face the demon but no one could beat he. But one they a powerful warrior came to the town he's name was Beowulf and with courage and agility he beat the monter and the town was happy again.

Epic of Sundiata

An Mandinka king who one day received a divine hunter at his court, this hunter predicted that if he married an ugly woman, she would give him a son who would one day be a mighty king. The thing is that the king was already married and had a son with her. but the king tried to follow the prophecy when an ugly hunchbacked woman was presented to him by two hunters and married her. they had a son named Sundiata who was unable to walk throughout his childhood. after a while the king died and the first son who was not from the ugly woman assumed the throne despite his wishes to fulfill the prophecy. Then Dankaran (the new king) insulted the mother of Sundidiata, so him, his mother and his family started to hate them for this, this provoked that Dankaran exiled them from the kingdom. after that a wizard attacked the kingdom and caused Dankaran to flee, the people called for Sundiata and gathered a few small territories and small kingdoms, Sundiata was named king of kings (Mansa) after waging war to the wizard, in the Bali empire.

Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching = The Scripture of the Path and the Virtue.

 This is really fundamental to the Taois school of chinese philosophy. the book is mostly of short essays approaching the features od Tao (like the Christ of those people) and the art of following Tao.
 Tao is the supreme goal for Taoists. It include:

• we need to appreciate everything that surround us material or temporal and we must not ask for more than what nature gives us 
• we can talk and think of divinity, but we cannot achieve it. 
• in order to value the world and the things that you have you must know fear
• there is an opposite to everything but we must embrace both sides to triumph and not just focus on 1 things

I have a really bad time reading this because is a relly hard text, im no exactly sure id i get what the autor was trying to tell, because the traslations and some stuff were different from the first text

Tales of Genji

The story is about a Japanese emperor that become father because one of his concubines have a child. This concubine was the one that the he love the most. the concubine die and the child( Genji ) go to his grandma's house to live there. The grandma die and the Genji come to his father house. both the emperor and Genji was really sad. Genji got a ceremony for having the age of an adult. the emperor found a girl that was similar to Genji's mother and present it to Genhi. Genhi and this woman marry and everyone became happy. The end.
I really like this history and it was really easy to read in comparison with other lectures that Mr. Harrys send to us.

The Believers

We read an extract from the Koran for this assignment. The Islam religion is very different from the Catholic religion, but I think that there are some similarities:

1-I understood is that God controls everything and that he could punish you and have no mercy.This reminds me of the old testament in the Bible there are a lot of books that God sends a tragedy to the earth in a way to punish the world.

2-It also says that if you follow the rules of God here on earth God will rewarded you when you die.