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