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Course 7 of 16

Cook a Cycle-of-Time Myth

📋 What it is

Mesoamerican myths often see time as CYCLES of worlds that rise and end, with maize and renewal at the centre.

🗣️ Coach says

Think in ages. Your myth can be about a world ending so a better one can grow, like a seed.

🧠 Memory hook

Say it: endings are seeds for beginnings.

😂 Giggle

Why did the dragon in the fairy tale get a bad review?
Because its performance was too fire and brimstone!

😲 Whoa!

Several Mesoamerican traditions told of earlier "suns" or worlds that existed before this one.

📖 The Master Recipe

The Cycle Shape: a world that has grown TIRED or unbalanced → a great ENDING → from the ruins, a SEED (often maize) → a NEW world grows, wiser than the last.

🧺 The Pantry — tap one from each shelf

This world
The ending
The seed

Your story seed: pick one from each shelf ↑

🥣 Prep Bowls — write your draft

👅 Taste Test — check your own work

No grade, no wrong answer — flops are flavor. Tick each one honestly, then plate it.

🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)

Describe one thing that must end for something new to grow. Say it in a sentence.

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🤸 Brain break: Seed-to-sprout: curl up small, then slowly grow tall.