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Creation Myths from around the Globe
My Notes
1. Key Ideas and Details: What are the purposes of a creation myth according to the text?
2. Craft and Structure: Why do you think the author uses the word “longing” in paragraph 3? What connotations does this word have?
Working from the Text
3. Summarize the central ideas from each of the three paragraphs in the informational text you just read.
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read the creation myths, put a star next to one key incident in each story that helps explain aspects of the natural world.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words by using context clues, word parts, or a dictionary.
Two African Creation Myths
From Voices of the Ancestors: African Myth
by Tony Allan, Fergus Fleming, and Charles Phillips
“Huveane and Clay People”
1 The Bapedi and Bavenda, Bantu tribes from Transvaal in South Africa, recount that the first human, Huveane the shepherd, was a lawless trickster who loved to make mischief.
2 Huveane cared for his father’s goats and sheep — for although he was the first man, he had parents. One day he set about making a being of his own: he took some clay, formed a baby with it and then breathed life into it. Then he hid the baby near his parents’ house. He cared for it lovingly, creeping out each dawn to feed it,
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