but how did it all begin?
"Thus her dreams insisted. And so it was."
Announcements: Jenny Thornberg's blog is the master blog
seeing lots of tree hugging photographs
next tuesday: origin myths....etiology...cosmogeny
two levels of etiology:simple and complex
Simple: how the x got it's y
how the tiger got its stripes
how the giraffe got its neck
"The Just Stories" Rudyard Kipling stories for children
why do the men of your tribe urinate in this way: Why/Because Mythology is a system that answers all of your questions...
Fiddler on the Roof "I will tell you....I don't know" Tradition (clip)
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In Illo Tempore ... "In the Beginning"
Mnemosiny= mother of the muses
Innate Knowledge... Plato The Doctrine of Anamnesis
The Allegory of the Cave...Plato
nature vs. nurture
whenever humans look upon a beautiful thing, your shoulders itch because your wings begin to grow
Wings of Desire... Peter Faulk
Once upon a time...
Ungo and Gungo...
Myth is a model for imitation.
When on high...In the Beginning...
And God said "Let there be light" and there was light .... "Thus her dreams insisted. And so it was." (Calasso)
The Creation of the world by the dismemberment of a great goddess. Tiamat... Marduk
cuts her in half.. uses one half of her body to make dome of earth..other for the heavens
tell story every year and we psychologically renew ourselves
When I was a kid...
The Myth of the Declining Images
Names you gotta know for THE TEST
The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer
Theogony Hesiod
Homeric Hymns
Classic Drama
Creation story of the Greeks...
The Trojan War...the event that the Greeks are obsessed with...
and the Jews .... flight of the Jews out of bondage from Egypt led by Moses
both: 1200 BCE, central mythological events for both cultures...no historical evidence of either
Sparagmos: The Tearing or the rending of living flesh
Three Tragedians:
Euripides
Aeschylos
Sophocles
Playwrights were required to write about the gods and goddesses....but couldnt talk about contemporary politics, but could create allegories between the two
written by Euripides: The Trojan Women (with Katherine Hepburn as Hecuba) Andromeda has a son called Astyanex...Hecotor her husband was killed in the Trojan war.. Massacre at Milos. All the women are left over and will be sold as concubine to their greek captors. Astyanex...what kind of world is it where the grandmother buries the grandchild
Tragedy...the song of the goat
Greatest trilogy in world drama: Orestes, the Orestaya...
his sister is killed by there father
Oedipus...Luke Skywalker...the formula of hte hero, adoption as a major motif in mythology
He goes to the place where three roads meet.
Jocasta:
Eschatology...A
The Doors, Jim Morrison: The End
Apo- (to take off)
Calypso- The Veil... the veiled nymph from the Odyssey
To remove the veil.... this is the vision of the world how it really is...
Johnny Depp... Dead Man Jim Jarmusch
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