Inuits And Egyptian Sky Myths: How Their Societies Are Reflected In Myth

Ancient cultures tried to explain the workings of the universe by applying their

experiences in everyday life to the movements of the heavens. The Inuits of the North American

arctic were a tribal society that lived from day to day. The ancient Egyptians were a more

complex society that advanced itself through study and experimentation. Sky myths help show

the formation of the society's survival tactics, family organization, and view of the world around

The Inuits were a simple society based mostly on the hunting and gathering of food within

the arctic of North America. It was an oral culture, meaning that the people used word of mouth

in order to pass their history through the generations. The culture was polytheistic, and its gods

and goddesses were personifications of the nature forces (thunder, light, etc.) (Encyclopedia

Mythica). The people had to struggle in order to survive, and held every piece of food, metal,

and wood as something precious. It was known that tribes of Inuits would search abandoned

camps of European fur traders in search of pieces of iron and scraps of wood (Brice-Bennett).

are not people walking around the planet in an eternal chase nor giving birth to the sun

stars by applying their daily experiences and general knowledge of the nature from their

newly discovered ideas of the workings of the human body within their myths. Yet, both

Education Network). This myth is meant to explain why the moon seems to chase after the sun.

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