Origin Myths

   
Word List
ancestors
archetypes
depths
origin myth
protruded
themes
unconscious


Definitions

  ancestors   (ansEHsturz) noun    relatives who came before us

  archetypes   (orkihtiips)     universal forms that we encounter in our lives, such as mother, father, god, hero, and leader.

  depths   (dEHpths)     deepest or lowest part of something

  origin myth        an imaginative story that explains how something in the world came to be.

  protruded    verb    stuck out or pushed out.

  themes   (theemz)     fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work

  unconscious   (uhnkonshuhs) noun,adjective    Not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead.   "lay unconscious on the floor"