1. “Mother Culture” is basically “how things came to be this way (40).” It explains everything that happens from the Takers point of view and gives them theories on why that way is write.
2a. The “Jellyfish Story” shows that having made one creature does not end the world of creation and it also does not mean that the world travels around that one creation that is jellyfish or a human being. .“…there was more to come beyond jellyfish (56)” nothing stops with the creation of one species.
2b. The “Taker Thunderbolt story” describes how the people do not worry when something is coming towards them they just conclude that ‘pedaling’ a bit faster will make the problem go way, but the problem just hits them in the face. The law of gravity brings down any object big or small.
2c. “Cain and Abel” are represented as two brothers. Cain is a Taker and he kills of Abel a Leaver in order to expand his agriculture.
2d. The Tree of Knowledge is only to be eaten by the Gods. After the Gods have eaten from the tree they discover the good and evil in the world. They have earned the knowledge of “who shall live and who shall die (160).”
2e. The Old Testament Story is a part of the agricultural revolution because of the need for more land the Takers killed their brothers and moved up to the boundary of the Semitic herders.
2. “Culture is a people enacting a story (41).” The story is acted by the people, the world, and the Gods. I think that the people are most important because of the actions and decisions they make the culture is formed and it is remembered to be followed.
3. The Takers are from the modern civilization and the Leavers represent the ones from the ones that are “primate (39).” The Takers are independent and do not wait for the Gods while the Leavers worship the Gods. The Leavers are those “who live in the hands of the gods (229).”
4. The agricultural revolution created more food