Long overdue Lecture notes

these lecture notes are a tad overdue, so I thought I would play catch up and get them in now before the Quiz next week.

1/11/13
Pay no attention to the man behind the Curtain


Basic Myth:
1. Seperation
2. Initiation
3. Return

*bookmark blogs as most recent
-From Primatives to Zen
      -Resource Book: Mircae Eliade
-Pain is associated with initiation, pain is a learning experience

Beginnings----> Creation
Middles--------> Initiation
Ends------------> Death/Return

Sparagmos--> tear,rend, pull to pieces. an act of mangling
 *Pentheus is dismembered by his mother at the order of Bacchus--> birth of sparagmos

01/14/13

-Be alert to what you hear and say as Detective
     *Hug a tree and put on blog*
-1st stage of Mythological Hero = The Call to Adventure


-Bacchus on the corner of Wilson and Main
-All fairytales are deteriorated Myths

Frogs are from Jersey, with terrible table manners

-Monomyth- Wikipage
"Education is not information, its Transformation."

Unlisted Date

*Cave of Forgotten Dreams
*Death is the mother of beauty*
    -Shakespeare sonnet 73
-Definition of Virgin: See Olive Oil
-Human Nature: you always want what you cannot have (Appollo and Daphne)
Etiology- the study of causation

In Ilo Tempore--->
The Hero w/ a Thousand Faces
  EPIC

Eliade
* what most creation myths
1. Creation ex nihilo ( out of nothing)
2. Creation through Earth Diver
       - God dives through ocean to bring up the world
3. Ceation by dividing in two the original mass
4. Creation by dismemberment of divine being

Mon-Friday
I have all the creation myths written down in order, really long and probably not relevant to put them all on here

02/04/13

4 quartets (#4: little gidding)---> T.S. Eliot

*Arrive where we started and know it for the first time*
      -not known because not looked for
Initiation: presentation- painful growing pains, pain, gruesome

3 parts
- creation, initiation, apocolypse

-initiation myths *see Eliade* associated w/pain
tell a gruesome story
*3 minutes. gruesome.

*first quiz= 15th of February
1. Know Creation stories (he'll specify)
2. what stories from Ovid you need to know

Ovid--> no diety, creation from chaos, then God or Nature, calmed the elements---> world not complete w/out man, Prometheus Created Man.

Gold--> Silver-->Bronze-->Iron : Declining Ages

Adam: Live in the sweat of your brow, and when you die return to dust
Eve: pain of child birth
Snake: on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat

Apocolypse---> APO-Calypso--> un-covering (the veil is lifted)
Catholic---> All embracing

Monological--> one thought
*Find interesting that which is boring*


02/06/13

Death, Afterlife, Eschatology

Eschatology: Study of end times

The middle is where we DO things
    - talk about the bad things- pain and suffering
Ritual---> performed mainly for symbolic calue
   *Rituals accepted as initiation
Sacrafice- to make sacred

no pain---> no gain

Stories for the test
1. Apollo and Daphne. 2. Io's transformation. 3. Pan's pipes (syrinx's transformation). 4. Callisto. 5. Peacocks and Argus. 6. Europa. 7. Cadmus. 8. Actaeon. 9. Semele. 10. Teirisris. 11. Narcissus. 12. Penthus. 13 Orpheus. 14. Pygmalian. 15. Mirra and Adonis.
Creation and the Flood