Paige's Mythology and Folklore Blog

I think feedback is a great thing that can help one grow and learn from mistakes. Feedback offers outside opinions different than your own and often feedback helps you see another perspective. It is okay to not do everything perfect all of the time, if that were the case you would never learn and grow. If we never experience failure then it would be impossible for one to learn new things and and have a good mindset. Having a fixed mindset is not good and it can result in someone being stuck with the same intelligence, with little opportunity to learn more. Having a growth mindset sets you up to continue to learn, adapt and excel in the workplace. An environment with a growth mindset mentality is one that will have the most growth. It is important to change your mindset from fixed to growth. Self-doubt is another debilitating state that can leave one going backwards instead of growing and moving forward. It is important to not compare yourself to others, you are as smart as you let your...

Goddesses : I really like the idea of maybe doing my project on different goddesses because I am a big fan of reality TV and I think doing a story that would play off of that would be fun for me. I would probably do something like the housewives and talk about the different goddesses from the different areas and how they are connected. I would be able to talk about their different lives and the different customs they have from their own areas. I would also talk about drama and would connect them to each other. Greek Goddesses : As for the the Greek Goddesses I would like to do something along the lines of the real housewives idea since all of these goddesses are from the same area. Like I mentioned earlier I enjoy reality television so I would come up with different stories for drama among the different goddesses and relate them to each other. I also will be able to talk about Greece and the history of these goddesses and how they came to be. The Man in the Moon : I am someone t...

Tricksters: Tiger, Brahman and Jackal By: Joseph Jacobs Story opens by starting with the problem introduces two characters at very beginning one character is immediately fooled introduces analogies to the scenario from other characters  outside character joins and meets other two characters jackal begins his plot to trick the tiger other characters do not realize what is occurring... yet the jackal and the tiger go back and forth  the jackal uses his ways to trick the tiger into getting back into the cage the story uses all dialogue to portray the story only three characters feelings of being scared, frightened and confused all happened in the story story ends on happy not no one is betrayed and it ends how it started the outside character is the character who performs the trickery Source : The Tiger, Jackal and the Brahman 

While going through the Untextbook I was truly amazed at all the possibilities there are for me to read. It got me excited to learn about all of the different stories and where they originated. One of the first topics that caught my eye was the section about Native American Hero Tales considering I am from Oklahoma there is a very strong Native American heritage here. I also really enjoy stories about heroes because that means there must be a protagonist, and I love a solid good vs. bad story. Another area that caught my eye was the stories of the Buddha , I have always heard about Buddha but I truly do not know a lot about it so I thought this would be a good way to learn more about the past and present of the Buddha. From what I do know about the Buddha, he is positive and loving and peaceful which are all things good in my opinion. I also looked at The Heptameron stories, this caught my eye because it said she is a Queen and it says it talks about love and gossip and I would be ly...