The Divine Comedy

It was a text difficult to read but I kind of got it, the chapter we had talks mainly about the visions or the rules in which your sins may be punished. It also talks about some visions about how it is and who can or can't go there, a comparison between hell and heaven or even purgatory.
The ways the sins are seen and the circles your soul may go.
Basically it's a man that talks about what he discovers and what he sees, for example there are 3 animals which represent the bad side of human behavior.

Beowulf

First it talks about evil and good, the difference between heaven and hell, specially how evil came to the world and where is it after everything happened. Then in a great kingdom there's a warrior who with his army will fight against a monster, and they're planning the attack, and saying that if destiny says is time for them to die, then is time, but a great warrior from outside came to and he will help them to win the battle. Defeating the monster was difficult because he kind of like enchanted the warrior's weapons so they can't hurt him, but at the end they won the battle and the monster was death. The next fight was against a witch and the third against a dragon, these warrior won all of them so everyone celebrated his victories

Sundiata, an epic of old Mali

The story takes place in Mali where a hunter defeats the red bull and marries one of the girls of the king, the problem is that the old woman who was the red bull ask the hunter to marry an specific girl from all of the daughters of the king, she has not beautiful at all, and the court didn't like her at all, and the problems got bigger when the first baby arrives, because he is already 7 years old and he doesn't walk yet. Other 2 children came and nobody knows what will happen, what would the king choose?
The first son, the one from the first wife or the next 3 with the ugly woman he married?

It was kind of confusing because of the names and stuff but I think it can have a good end, anyway is just the beginning.

African and Native American Trickster Folktales

Here it talks how ancient stories have been so popular around the world specially those from tricksters. African and native american stories have big similarities, they use animals as main characters and sometimes they play the same type of problems, although non of them is totally the same; each story shows the characteristic of each culture and how they used to teach each others by telling stories for example grandparents to grandchildren. In México we used to have the same kind of traditions, telling legends one to another or fables in which you always learn something. The problem now days is that the children and their parents are not longer interested in this kind of traditions or they have no time or we are just in a different century where these traditions are staying as old traditions

Popol Vuh

As I read I discovered that the book was about stories come of them like the genesis in our bible, stories that explain how the world was created and how they explained some mysteries on earth. Stories about the mountains and the animals, how some of the"gods" we can say created those things and how they used to fight against each other until someone wins.
It is a book from a mayan culture, but actually we can't consider it to be a bible or spiritual scrips they're just stories, or legends they used to tell to explain everything around them.
The one I liked the most was on the first chapter because it was the creation of the world, how the gods by just mentioning the name of the things made it possible to exist the difference is that the story is to short and they don;t talk really much about the flood like on the bible and that they were different types of men before the ones we know.