8/13 Prompt: How did creating your own origin myth help you better understand why cultures use stories to explain the origins of people, places, traditions, or natural events? In your response, describe the choices you made while developing your myth and explain the lesson, value, or human responsibility you wanted your story to communicate.

 Creating my origin myth helped me understand why  cultures used stories  to explain the origins of  people, places and traditions and natural events. The choice I made for trying to explain natural events in my myth was to say that A higher power punishes humans with disasters for every time that they dont follow the orders they are given. Writing the origin myth helped me understand why he native people wrote myths to try and undertood where humans came from or how the universe was created. It also helped me understand why their traditions revolved around having several gods  because several people would have different  perspectivs on what a god would be like.

Summary: Writing my origin myth helped me understand why the natives wrote origin myths to answer questions the felt they couldnt.

Reflection: I feel like I better understand natives and why they belived in origin myths.