Rituals, need to recite one next Thursday: get from the internet or Calasso
cannot share one that has already been discussed in class
find ones that are entertaining
can use a personal ritual
ritual in Hamilton Hall: guys being chased by girls and snatching hats
"I don't know"
most rituals are unconscious
fertility rites
carpe diem rituals
go out in the forest and do what "comes naturally"
bear meat ritual: a bowl of bear meat goes to the bear
....and pouring out some beer for your dead homies

we had to kill the thing that provides us with our food

Peruvian fertility rituals:

"makes the crops grow better"
a sacrificial ritual
a "harvest rite"
like Tarbolium, a young man and woman, both virgins, slit their throats

Mr. Summer  Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Three legged stool—Oedipus, chapter 6 in Calasso

 Corner of Wilson and Main:  Miss Kitty’s and The Baccus, Dionysus and Aphrodite

Sacrifice of a human being for agricultural prosperity

Foxfire…Aztec rituals

Deus ex machina

Icarius and the Goat, also check out Vargas Llosa's "Fiesta del Chivo" or the Feast of the Goat

We don't make choices, our society and culture chooses it for us

everytime you read mythology you are reading the spoken part of the thing that was done

Myth and the ritual school

Myth is the story behind the thing done

Passover rituals 

Precision...Repetition...

Classical literature: with dance their is song

the chorus performs a strophe and an anti-strophe

There's Something about Mary

chorus

The Virgin Suicides

Middle Sex

The Marriage Plot

Jeoffrey Eugenides

(a greek name meaning good birth)

Carilla, the virgin suicide

pg. 162 Calasso

ritual of expulsion, the bible in the book of numbers

an animal is chosen and dragged into the center of town and everyone puts their sins on the animal in the form of notes

they pin it to the goat

expel them into the wasteland

"the scapegoat"

Ceremony: Ceres

Demeter: Goddess of bounty/harverst

mis an a beam... french for "falling into an abyss"

Quaker holding a box of quaker oats, with a quaker holding a box of quaker oats, etc.

"the crime lay not so much in having done such things but in not having realized what it was they did"

Effigy solves the famine

"Remainder" by Tom McCarthy...the main character gets rich in a settlement after he is in an accident and uses his money to reenact the events of his life before.....repetition of events

"I'll tell you, I don't know"

Tradition in Fiddler on the Roof

the Maypole ritual

(axis mundi? center of the world)

The initiation: 260, Calasso

Hades abducting Persephone

Patty Hearst

Class Notes 8: BBQ at Juniper's

Juniper got 105%, she will now be sacrificed, as is customary.
please do not rest on your laurels...Apollo and Daphne

Everybody: How's the Magus goin'?

we're going to segway from concerns with beginnings to concerns with middles

The Middles:

principle difference b/w gods and humans: immortality

in the middles we are dealing with HUMANS

element of sadness because of mortality

The Heroe by Lord Raglan

the 22 points

The Hero Pattern

This pattern is based upon The Hero: A study in Tradition, Myth and Dreams by Lord Raglan 

Incidents which occur with regularity in hero-myths of all cultures: 

1. Hero's mother is a royal virgin;
2. His father is a king, and
3. Often a near relative of his mother, but
4. The circumstances of his conception are unusual, and
5. He is also reputed to be the son of a god.
6. At birth an attempt is made, usually by his father or his maternal grand father to kill him, but
7. he is spirited away, and
8. Reared by foster -parents in a far country.
9. We are told nothing of his childhood, but
10. On reaching manhood he returns or goes to his future Kingdom.
11. After a victory over the king and/or a giant, dragon, or wild beast,
12. He marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor and
13. And becomes king.
14. For a time he reigns uneventfully and
15. Prescribes laws, but
16. Later he loses favor with the gods and/or his subjects, and
17. Is driven from the throne and city, after which
18. He meets with a mysterious death,
19. Often at the top of a hill,
20. His children, if any do not succeed him.
21. His body is not buried, but nevertheless
22. He has one or more holy sepulchres. 

Superman, Christ,   Superman doesn't fulfill all of these, stuck at 11.  America is obsessed with the hero constantly overthrowing the beast.  What do other heroes score:

Oedipus: 21

Superman: 11

Arthur:

Luke Skywalker:

Simba:

Joseph Campbell: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

1. separation from home

2. initiation into new reality

3. return to home, to discover it has changed

The real hero of any story, according to psychologists, is you!

The middle is the muddle: characterized by   ambiguity, murkiness, the middle is the labyrinth

This is the magus...main character Nick finds himself in a labyrinth, initiation

Assignment: Need to find a ritual and or initiation to talk about a week from this Thursday

go back to Eliade book

Harvest rituals

A ritual is something we do.

DO: very important

every human being's greatest problem

what am I supposed to do?

pages in Calasso: 99ish?

Ate, the act of doing and responsibility

Robert Bly, nobel prize winner

Iron John, a book about men

stories told by the brother's Grimm

about a boy who needs to have rituals in order to grow up and be a man

Bly thinks that men in our society need rituals, but not physically, just the retelling of them

Taurobolium--Taurus

Bull headed, strong, earthy

a week from this Thursday

Body Ritual Among The Nacirema

https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html?pagewanted=all

think about someone who is obsessed with rituals

24 hours to confess about your weird ritual

Personally, I'm a list-maker

Eleusinian Mysteries: To see, to say, to do.

DROMENON, the thing done

===>DRAMA

Cleopatra, greatest drama queen of all

The Taurobolium:

or see: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_to_build_a_Burmese_Tiger_Pit

Flannery O'Connor

Everything that Rises Must Converge

Need to hold them down long enough to struggle

need the existential experience of pain, a death and a rebirth

water-boarding

why would they get rid of fraternities and sororities....violent initiations, hazing

Have you been washed in the blood of the lamb?

Homeopathy: Like produces like...Imitate the thing that you want to happen here
Where does Drama originate? IN the represenation of the thing you want to happen
James G Frazier Homeopathy
The Golden Bough

The Storyteller- Mario Vargas Llosa


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Class Notes 7:

Lauren...Theresa...Maddie....Juniper:  we're awesome. 'nuff said.
Housekeeping:

everyone bookmark Cortney: cortneybury.blogspot.com
 Today: going to assign groups
Lauren's group: 6

mythology in everyday life.  Be surprising, interesting and wonderful. That's all.
The Test:

1. everyone needs to know the following items from Eliade:  Haineweli and Creative Murder, Pythian apollo, earth mother of all, enumelish, Hesiod's theogony, Saturn devouring his children (painting)  nothing else from the test...
2. Calasso: First six chapters, and exact pages: 5 (the basket, the picture of your story, Europa)  15 (etyologuy, why do greek men have slim hips?) 39 (goats, Rigoree and her father escarious..johnny appleseed mythological equivalent) 81 (who has more fun making love, man or woman? soothsayer Tireseus..it was women, Hera turned him into a woman for 5 years, thus she blinded him) 94 (Ate-divine infatuation, a life without it isn't worth anything) 383- the definition of myth--the precedent behind every action

illo tempore-- in the beginning....once upon a time...in the dream time

52 (and meagan's blog, the decline of the ages...conviviality...rape...indifference)
176- (how it all came about, not just how it began..Pelops...who was Pelops...Peloponesian war... and also a son of Tantalus..chopped up Pelops and fed him as a stew to the gods...Meneleus and Agamemnon, without them no Trojan war)

Leda and the Swan by WB Yeats

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
    Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
    By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
    He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

    How can those terrified vague fingers push
    The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
    And how can body, laid in that white rush,
    But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

    A shudder in the loins engenders there
    The broken wall, the burning roof and tower[20]
    And Agamemnon dead.

                        Being so caught up,

    So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
    Did she put on his knowledge with his power
    Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? 

Zeus took the form of a Swan...If she is ravaged by a divinity, does she take on his form and his power?

Laid two eggs, from one Castor and Pollux and the other Helena and Clitemnestra, two sets of twins...

Beginning of Jill's blog: Eliade's statement on various kinds of creation stories, need to know this very thoroughly  eschatology

1. mother of the muses--Mnemosyne

2. what was persephone doing when hades abducted her? picking flowers

particular flower--narcissus

3. the suggestion that we are all prisoners regarding the flickering images on the wall as reality refers to what myth/allegory/fable:the allegory of the cave-Plato

4. Who was always described as deceitful and beautiful, she was salso thought to be a phantom: Helen  who had the face that launched a thousand ships? Marlowe

5. Who was Europe named after? Europa

6. What is the mythological root of this word...enthusiasm? en-theos...the god inside you...to be god-possessed

7. Who arrives unexpected and possesses? Dionysus

8.who says "one more time, Athena, love me as much as you can." Odysseus

Hercules is Antony's tutelary spirit...diomones, divine spririts...daemons..

9. abduction is always followed by....metamorphoses (getting married is an abduction dream...transferrance of property from one male to another) all marriage is rape

10. Who was born from the dismembered members of Uranus? Aphrodite

what does aphrodite mean? born of the foam

11.  who was the mother of the minotaur? pasiphae

12. tearing of limbs? Sparagmos

13. what follows sparagmos---homophagia...the consumption of the flesh....communion rites..

14. 3 stages of mythological monomyth...separation..initiation...return/initiationwhat do all heroes want to do? they want to go home, to arrive where they started

15. define anamnesis..the pugnacious paradox, you already know what you need to knwo, you just forgot...recollection...what have we forgotten according to Plato? everything of any importance

16. what does the word apocalypse actually mean? to take off the veil,referring to calypso, the veiled one

17. what is eschatology? the study of ends, end times...

18. what in the greek story was housed in the labyrinth? minotaur

19. who was the destroyer of the delights? death from the arabian nights, we have our stories, and then the destroyer 

20. zeus came as a what when he abducted io? io: cloud europa: bull leda: swan  the shower of gold: danae, who gave birth to perseus.. Semele, daughter of Cadmus: took the form of a mortal...can you do me a favor? when a god agrees to do something they cant take it back... can you show yourself to me as you really are? she burns up, zeus grabs the fetus and puts it into his thigh and dionysus is born. 

20.

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