Myhtology = methos + logos, meaning stories of truth
Vicos 3 ages + 1, age of the gods, age of heros, age of men, age of chaos
Epiphany = a suddedn manifestation of the divine that changes the view of the world
1-16-2004
Memory is the key to mythology
Mnemosyne is the mother of the muses and helps you remember
Assignment to Group 3, Gardens, Caves and Labrynths
1-21-2004
Gods and Goddesses stand as exemplary modles
Some traditions we do simply because it was done before
pantheos = gods are everywhere
1-23-2004
Campbell video
Stages of being, Seperation, Initiation and Transfiguration
1-26-2004
Etiology = how things came to be
Draw a line between fact and myth and see where on the line you are
Scheherezade is the ultimate story teller
Hyperboly = exagerations for the effect of emphasis
1-28-2004
Xenophone's theory was the first theory of projection
Lots of names and their myhtological iterpretations
Reconteur = a great story teller
Myth is the collective symbolic form in the class
Polis is part of theo'polis,' meaning that we are part of the activity of a city
You can make anything sacred and when you name it it becomes yours
Anima = Latin for soul or to become alive
Cosmos = order in Greek
2-4-2004
Creation stories
Cosmogony = birth of the cosmos
Thoegony = the birth of the gods
sticks and stones can only break my bones, but words can hurt forever
Creation stories moved from the great mother goddess to phalocentric
2-6-2004
Our ideas of perfection aren't so fun when we get there
The hero story represents the sun, rises, goes through the day and sets
Sarvam dukkham, Sarvam anityam = Everything is pain, Everything is sorrow
Marriage is an ordeal, but it is also sacremental
2-9-2004
Modernism = the dissenchantment of the world
Sheherezade of the air-ways, said, did and showed
Stages of belief are, 1, unconditional belief, 2, dissenchantment from belief, 3, tempered belief
2-11-2004
2 Gods in the biblical creation story, 1, impersonal God, 2, personal God
Our gods and goddesses take the form of our parents
Middles involve men, women, love and war
Elvis was Dionysis, the god of the depths
Hero's circumstances are different
2-20-2004
Campbell Video
Yates believed that every 2,000 years that a bird would father a hero
2-23-2004
Pantheon = story of the gods
Freud's house mind with the superego, the ego and the suppressed unconciuos
Jung goes with Freud except for his belief in the collective subconcious
Lord Raglin's 22 points to a hero story
Hero's have a positive aspect, culture bringer, and a negative aspect, proud, ect
2-25-2004
There is satisfaction in a familiar pattern and satisfaction in breaking or improving the pattern
Signature = an individuel addaptation on a pattern
Feminine archetypes: 1st elemental (+), 2nd elemental (-), 1st transformative (+), 2nd
transformative (-)
2-27-2004
Goddess stories, Egyptian great mother and Demeter vs Zeus
Where you are is the center of the world
Jewish story of the Rabi who found treasure under his bed
Sparagmos = the tearing of live flesh
Omophagia = the eating of live flesh
Story of Pentuse and the Bachii as an example of sparagmos
3-3-2004
The West confuses the vehicle with reality, the East doesn't make a distinction
Bagavad Gita: warrior Arjuna looses his nerve and god Krishna comforts him
3 great tradgedies; the Brothers Karamatza, Job and King Lear
3-8-2004
Shedding of the snakes skin represents immortality and we must kiss the sanke on the head
Gnosticsism believes that God is within and not without
Eternity is not long because it is not time
The grat mythologies are the ones that abolish time
3-10-2004
Review for second exam
3-22-2004
The beginning of the ends
3-24-2004
Discussed paper topics and thesis statements