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- 4. While in popular usage the term myth often refers to false or fanciful stories, members of cultures often ascribe varying degrees of truth to their creation myths.
- 7. of or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.
- 8. the distance on the earth's surface from east to west
- 9. a Pueblo Indian ceremonial structure that is usually round and partly underground
- 10. belonging to a particular place by birth or origin
- 11. The way of life a person lives with their attitude, behavior and habits.
- 13. a person especially among American Indian groups who is believed to possess supernatural powers that can heal illnesses and keep away evil spirits
- 15. A person who studies people and things from the past.
- 17. The communal dwelling of an American Indian village of Arizona and New Mexico
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- 1. Moving into or to another state or country
- 2. dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity
- 3. the state of being dependent upon one another
- 5. A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.
- 6. the distance on the earth's surface from north to south
- 12. The study of the earth's surface like,the continents,mountains,seas and weather.
- 14. a close similarity or affinity
- 16. a natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual significance and adopted by it as an emblem.