Hum125- World Mythology

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Answer each of the following questions with at least one paragraph per answer. You are to utilize your notes from the week six Black Panther Powerpoints, readings and of course the graphic novel. There will be an extra credit question at the end

  1. Where does the Pan-Africanist view of Black Panther come alive in the graphic novel? Reflect on any one of these elements: the rich cultural history, religious symbolism, political struggles, etc.

2) What is the origin myth (creation myth) of Wakanda? Use both Gods and tribes to articulate your points from the graphic novel and the clip from the film.

3) What are the clear similarities and differences in the graphic novel version of Black Panther: Avengers of the New World and the film clips we watched of Black Panther? Find one similarity and one difference.

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Extra credit: Share your thoughts on the graphic novel, Black Panther: The Avengers of the New World by Coates. What stood out for you about this text and what did it make you think of, reflect on? Did you have any previous experience with the Marvel mythical hero?

Material to help answer the questions above

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/02/20/why-wakanda-matters/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c4d41d8cbc84

https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/don-mcgregor-panthers-rage-black-panther.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikky7ZvpKLk&list=RDIkky7ZvpKLk&start_radio=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GGbHtKmobQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxaeJntQNbs

Black Panther Avengers of the New World

Discussion and brief overview

Thoughts and reflections

Please take a few minutes in your journal to free write your reflections on Black Panther: Avengers of the New World

You can write about…

-What stood out to you in the text about the characters and this vision of Wakanda.

-The twist of the Gods and creatures of the world (Orisha, The Originators)

Approach of the authors and illustrators – Coates, Torres, Sprouse and Martin

Pan-Africanism: the idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape of a political or cultural movement. (From Britannica)

Writing with a Pan-Africanist approach, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the illustrators set out to create a unified approach to Wakanda, it’s ancestors and tribes after it’s civil war.

Clip – Ta-Nehisi Coates

Before Avengers of the New World – book 4

A Wakanda Shaman (Tetu)

Led a civil war to destroy Ta’Challa’s leadership, the lineage of the Black Panther and the Orisha Gods. Had the support of the poor, mistreated in Wakanda and outside forces. Ta’Challa, his allies and the Ancestors defeated Tetu. Afterwards, Ta’Challa installed a democratic council to share power in Wakanda

The Originators What does a culture do when their Gods abandon them and the old world returns to stake it’s claim?

The Anansi, the spider people

Unnamed two-headed men

Vanyan, ape-like creatures

Creeping Doom, the insect creatures

 

This information is not revealed until the next book

In the Black Panther series. In this myth, the Originators

(the creatures above) were the first beings on the land

that eventually became Wakanda. When the five tribes settled on Wakanda, they lived in peace before war broke out. Led by the panther Goddess Bast, the Orisha imprisoned the Originators in an alternate dimension.

Ororo Munroe or Storm

Does Ta’Challa have the loyalty of Storm or does he depend on her as a living Goddess?

How do the citizens of Wakanda view Ororo Munrow

God comparisons

Egyptian mythology – Bast or Bastet

Thoth

Writing, magic, wisdom

Ptah

Craftsmen, artisans. Creator

Of the universe in Memphisian origin myths

Kokou

God of War in Benin myth – a Yoruba Go