Class Notes
- January 9, 2013
- Mythos:
- Mythologies
- Myth - precedent behind all actions
- What comes before the stories
- The only way to be original is to go back to the origins
- Mary and Martha
- Jesus tells Martha that Mary has chosen the more important task of listening to his parables, or stories
- Transformation of souls - nothing ever really dies
- Metempsychosis
- 150 years from now: mythologies say that you won't have dissipated
- What is the precedent of family?
- "en ilo tempore"
- Three divisions of metamorphoses
- Beginning Midde End
- Aristotle
- Alice in wonderland
- "start at the beginning and go until you reach the end" King
- Beginning Myth
- Creation: God creates the world in seven days
- In Genesis 2 God makes Adam
- Logos - the word
- Catabasis/Abasis - going to bed/rising
- Find a creation myth and tell the story
- "I reason to be on earth is to sing" Orphesis
- Mythology - the truth about stories or the truth of stories?
- What song would you sing if you were trying to bring back a dead wife?
- Don't look at her until she is out of the underworld: book 10
- January 11, 2013
- Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
- You withdraw your myth
- "I think that what I learned is that when I look for my heart's desire, I don't have to look any farther than my own backyard."
- Montana myths
- Bookmark blogs in order of most recent
- Kind Midas and the Barber
- Dug a hole in the ground and whispered about the King's ears and the wind shared the secret
- Second book
- From Primitives to Zen
- Resource
- Mercha Adiada
- Pain
- A learning experience
- Tribal Initiation
- Scars
- Middles are initiations
- Psyche: Cupid fell in love with her, she was the most beautiful women in all the land
- Sparagmos:
- Tear and pull to pieces, act of tearing apart
- January 14, 2013
- Psyce: should be study of soul
- Assignment
- Landscape of mythical clues surround us
- Obstacles: over the threshold and the call to adventure
- First step in a hero's journey
- not hearing what is calling to you
- The Bacchus: god of wine and merriment
- All fairytales are degerate
- Girl with golden ball, frog says that he will get the ball from the well if she will let him eat from her plate, sleep in her bed, sit at her table, drink from her cup
- give the frog a kiss and transformation occurs
- Woman behind every hero
- Monomyth: stages of a hero's journey
- Separation, initiation and transformation
- Education is transformation, you must be changed
- After Ovid
- Poems based on metamorphosis
- Ovid has mischief and cleverness, shock and suffering
- Offer mythical to the more extreme forms of human behavior and suffering
- Holocaust, plague, rape, insest, sex change, torture, war, drugs, etc.
- Things haven't changed since Ovid's time and before
- Calvino
- All at one point: "condensed point" big bang theory
- Rapidity - if you don't like the story, wait and it will change
- January 16, 2013
- Mythic Clues
- Asclepian Temples
- Tiny Rooms with Beds
- If Asclepeas or his snake appeared while sleeping you would be healed
- Healed:
- Hygea, daughter of Asclepeas
- Initiation - Creation
- Epiphany: an appearance or manifestation, especially of a diety
- Finish book by Monday
- Hyperborean upper Europe
- Religion a myth
- Have a dream
- Keep a notebook
- Dreams are real?
- Die Young: Adonis
- Die quickly are those buried shallowly
- Elvis: Orpheas
- "The Doers of perception were cleansed everything would appear as it should"
- January 18, 2013
- Orpheis
- Recursive Structures
- Greek men and small behinds
- Theseus and Pirithous
- Killed a Minatar
- Abandon-er and user of women
- Men talking to a "buddy"
- Wants the most beautiful woman of the world
- Leda: raped by Jove in the form of a swan
- "A sudden blow the great wings beating still above the staggering girl." Leda & The Swan
- Wants Helen, but doesn't have his way with her
- Pirithous wants Phersephone wife of Hades
- Comes into castle of dead and "straight speaks" to Hades who goes and gets her
- Sends the two to sit in the "waiting room"
- Stuck to bench
- Stuck "forever" - Hercules sets them free eons later
- Rips the men from the bench and part of behinds stay put
- Sundays and Cybele
- The tree
- Atlas and Cybele - story of trees
- Pygmalion
- "Paper Doll Song"
- fell in love with the statue he made
- prayed to have the ivory turned to life
- "Pretty Woman"
- Henry Higgens and Eliza Doolittle:
- Shaw, George Burnin
- Relationship between Art and Reality
- Synchronicity - two or more events that apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance yet experienced as occurring together in a meaningful matter.
- Sisyphus
- Albert Camus - The myth of Sisyphus
- Roll a Rock up a mountain and watch it roll down the other side, then roll it up again, etc
- January 23, 2013
- Your own backyard (trees)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams:
- What interests you - following
- Shakespeare's Sonnet 73: to love that well which though must leave ere long
- Noah's Ark
- Twilight - Sun is going down
- Laural - Daphne turns into laural
- 15 and 16, Apollo's first love
- Struck by Cupid's arrow
- Pursuit and Pursuer = Wrath of Virgin Phebe
- Bernini - Statue of Apollo and Daphne
- "if you can't be my wife, you'll be my tree."
- Laurel tree
- Etiology: medical and philosophical theories, where it is used to refer to study of why things occur
- "The hero with a thousand faces" - Joseph Cambell
- Fredrick Turner - "epic"
- Creation
- Four Types
- Ex Nihilo - out of nothing, deity creates
- Earth Diver
- Dividing in two
- Heaven and earth
- Cosmo egg
- Dismemberment of immortal being
- January 25, 2013
- Zach's Dreams
- Myth is an account of some creation
- Ex Nihilo - out of nothing
- Earth Diver - diver sent by creator to bring something from bottom of a body of water
- Dismemberment of primordial being
- Cosmic egg
- Babalonion Creation
- Enuma Elish
- Tiamat and Epsu
- Mother Monster created
- Child shoots arrow down cavern of mother's mouth
- Half of body is sky other half is earth
- Blood and Earth makes beings/humans
- Tehome - Hebrew for deap
- Creation (Christian)
- Ex Nihilo
- Eve - formed from one of Adams ribs
- Axis Mundi - Naval of World
- Belly Button
- All along the beach to be baked at right temp, went along with a stick to check of creations were done
- Center of the World is wherever you are now
- En Ilo Tempora
- then one day the original sin occurs
- Very earliest memory - something you weren't supposed to do as well.
- Three circles of stages of mythology
- in the biginning everything is okay
- Forbidden Fruit - Garden of Edan with Eve
- Feb 4, 2013
- Creation
- Initiation
- Presentation - Initiation: Pain, Suffering, Gruesome story
- Creation, Initiation Apocalypse
- Puberty Rites
- Secret Society
- Creation Stories and what stories from Ovid
- Multiple choice question brought to class
- Lucretius
- "The Swerve" - Natural way the earth came into being.
- god or nature (Ovid): take your pick
- Ovidian myth of decline
- gold, silver, bronze, iron
- Etiology - how things came to be
- Curses in Garden of Edan
- Man - Will have to work by the sweat of brow until returning to dust
- Woman - Pain in childbirth
- Snake - on belly shall crawl and eat dust
- Myths of Initiation
- Apocalypse - uncovering; removal of a viel
- Catholic - all embracing
- Mono-logical, Monotheistic
- Peak-a-boo
- Find interesting things in something you find boring
- Feb 6 2013
- Initiation Presentation
- Eschatology - Doctrine - last and logy, end time
- The middle
- Dromanon - Drama - "DO"
- "I am sorry Arachne"
- Arachne vs. Athena
- the gods treat people inferior to themselves
- Ritual
- things repeated, for symbolic reasons
- stylized rituals
- Mandan Pain Ritual
- Jason and the Argonauts
- Eliada
- Sacrifice - make sacred
- for the community
- Puberty - phase of life
- passage from childhood to adulthood
- huge event during mythological times
- rites of passage
- marriage - bonding spiritually and physically
- very mythological as well
- The way to be original is to go back to the origin
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