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.
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
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:
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
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
and...GO DONATE BLOOD!
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