Legends
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Legends
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Lost city of Atlantis
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Legend?King Arthur
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Legend?
Robin Hood
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Legend?
Paul Bunyan
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Legends•Folktales•Help explain the past
•Passed down from generation to generation
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A Chinese Legend
Explains the Beginning of
ChinaHuangshan (the Yellow Mountains)
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China’s Beginnings
Egg cracked Created sky and earth
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P’an GuCame from eggFirst manGrew for 18,000 yearsdied
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P’an Gu’s Body Becomes…Head split – sun and
moonBlood – rivers and seasHair – forests and meadowsPerspiration – rainBreath – windVoice - thunder
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An African Legend
Explains why the sun shines more
brightly than the moon
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Sun vs MoonGod created Moon
(bigger and brighter) and SunSun became jealous and attacked moonSun begged for mercySun attacked again & threw Moon into the mudMoon now was not as bright
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God steps in….
• Sun brighter and shines during the day for kings and workers
• Moon shines only at night for thieves and witches
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A Rumanian
LegendExplains the creation of
mountains and valleys
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God made the heavens• He use a ball of
thread to measure the heavens
• Began creating earth beneath them
• Mole offered to help
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Mole helps….• Mole held the
thread while God wove and shaped the earth
• Mole let out too much thread so earth was too big to fit under the heavens
• Mole was afraid and buried himself
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Help from Bee
• God sent Bee to ask Mole to find out what should be done
• Mole did not answer
• So Bee had a plan…..
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Bee’s Plan
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• Bee hid in flowers to overhear Mole (as he would often talk out loud to himself)
• Bee heard Mole say to push mountains up and valleys in
• Bee flew away to tell God
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Curse turned to Blessing….
• Mole heard Bee fly away and cursed Bee (Feed on yourself)
• God turned Mole’s curse into a blessing: Bees make honey
• Mole lives underground and is afraid to come out
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Legends explain:Creation
DeedsStarsWhy maple trees have red leavesGeographic featuresMany more
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Learning About the Past• Writing developed more than
5,000 years ago• Laws, poems, speeches, battle
plans, letters, contracts• Legends were then written
down• Many were thought to be fact• Archeologists and
anthropologists work together to find the truth about legends