I’m not much of a note-taker; I have a pretty good memory and filter for what’s important and not, and just jot down enough to remind myself of the important bits.  I’ve had classes before where I filled less than five pages with notes by the end of the semester.  So, while my notes may not help you much with exact details, they should be a great guide on the broad strokes.

1/16 Here’s what I have so far:

Mythos–Story

Mythologies–the precident behind all actions

Mary+Martha: Mary listens to Jesus while Martha is doing dishes—listening to stories isn’t useless, Jesus thinks a lot of himself.

in ilo tempore–big time

Logos–“The Word”   truth

Mythology= Mythos+ Logos  / The Truth of Stories

Presentation=3 min, me=The Last Question   Isaac Asimov

Ovid= 437 pages=146 pages/3 weeks, = 20 pages a day

Beginnings–Origin, Creation

Middle–Initiation

End–Return (but transformed)

Sparagmos–rending, tearing apart, mangling

Call to Adventure

Fairy tales are degenerated myths——-Monomyth

1/18–Tushy Day

Zeus plays Swan, rapes Leda–>Helen of Troy comes out of an egg.

WB Yeats  “A Sudden Blow”

Birds get chicks

Persephone–Queen of the dead, married to Hades

“Here for your wife, bro”—-Superglue from hell

assignments:

Dream

Tree

Read

Have a coincidence

Sisyphus–Boulder Roller/Holder     STD Haver?

1/23

Cave of Forgotten Dreams–Warner Herzog

Shakespeare Sonnet 73–I’m old                         Look homeward now, Ruth

Do not go gentle into that good night

Winners get Laurels

QUIZ–Mythologies–Etiology–study of causation/origination

Just so stories

Monday–presentations start

Epic–Frederick Turner

Creation Myth Types

1) Creation ex nihilo–creation from nothing.  a high being makes world

2) Earth Diver–God sends peeps/self to bottom of ocean, brings up a particle/whatever, grows into world

3) Divide in two

4) creation by chopping of a monster/old being/supernatural.  maybe voluntary, maybe no.

1/25

Creation Myths–Be interesting

at that time–in illo tempore—once upon a time—event out of time/nonspecific

long long time ago in a galaxy far far away

Present Monday, then blog about—what kind of myth, etc

Axis Mundi–center of the world–is “here”

world tree–world axis

…and then one day

Forbidden Fruit

1/28 Sharsies Week

All the myth of creation places

Bumba–Salish–Finnish–Zulu–Pelesian–Thompson Indian Myths–Slavic–Persian–Asimov’s The Last Question–Mayory–Zoros–Inca–Celtic–Inuit–Cherokee–Egypt–Norse–Hungarian–Upanishads–Korean Jiju–Australian Aboriginal–Aztec–Egyptian (Atem)–Egyptian again–Raven (Northern American)–Mayan–Mongolian–Middle Earth–Chimoran of Guam–Actual Science–Pangu (Chinese)–Polynesian–Assiniboine–Native American again–Aztec number two–Egyptian the 4th–Dreaming–Ghana–Maori again

2/4

T.S. Elliot–Little Gidding

Creation-initiation-apocolypse

initiation presentation— Pain/Suffering/Gruesome

Have a question–Multiple Choice

The Swerve–Lucretius

Test Q=Etiologies = study of causation

apocalypse- removal of the veil–Calypso

Catholic=all embracing

Gold–Silver–Bronze–Declining of Ages

Monomyth–Monological–we’re a boring species

 

2/6 

Death, Afterlife, Eschatology–concern with the end of times

“to be technical, the middle is where we do stuff”

Ritual–something that is done for its symbolic value

PG13–hanging by the breasts–tit spinning–mandan indian dudes

to be or not to be–being means pain

sacrifice=”make sacred”

“has anyone heard of puberty?”

important ritual–get ready to make with the babies

Love You Like a Love Song–twist on “we’re boring”/ “be original by going back to the origins”

“My signatures is my piercings–idiots

Testy Testy–Ovid stories to know

Apollo and Daphne–Daphne becomes a tree

Io

Callisto–Ursa major/minor–bears

Peacock’s eyes in their tails

Uropa–Europe

Cadmus       Acteon

Semeli

Tiresias

Narcissus

Penteus

Orpheus

Pygmallian–made a chick

Myrrah

Actaeon

First days/flood

 

2/8

Hermes/Mercury  Trickster—winged sandals

Pompus=Guide

Psyche=Soul

Hermetic–sealed, secret

Actaeon–Stumbles in Diana’s bathing pool, sees her naked.  she throws water at him, he grows horns from the spot, “horny”.  Becomes a stag.

Callisto–Jove makes himself look like Diana, gets rapey.  Gets turned to a bear by JUno, her son hunts her 15 years later, Jove puts them both into the starts.  Ursa Major/Minor.  Totally makes it ok and him not a complete asshole at all.

A god can’t take back a promise, or directly undo another god’s doing.

 

2/11

Pantheon=all god temple

Zeus was Chronos’s kid, Chronos kept eating his kids.  Buy some condoms, idiot.

Zeus gives daddy a vomit inducer–bulimia.  Bachas/Dionisis gets in pantheon after goddess of the hearth–vesta–leaves.  Boring.

Bithyrambos–Rambo

CADMUS–Europa’s bro.  she’s been abducted.  Builds a city where a cow sleeps–Thebes.  Marries Harmony–4 bitchy kids–Semele, Agrove, Itonoway, Ino

TIRESIAS–blind prophet.  Sees two snakes banging, knocks them apart with a stick–two snakes around a stick=symbol of medicine.

Spends 6-7-8-whatever years as a chick and a dude sexing everyone/thing, says chick has more fun, blinded.  Zeus/Juno lets him “see”–be a seer–as pity for wifey’s punishment

NARCISSUS/ECHO

Jove/Zeus used Echo to distract Juno while getting his bang on, she took most of Echo’s voice

Narcissus saw himself in a pool, fell in love, didn’t realize it was a reflection, wouldn’t leave, starved.  A regular Einstein.

PENTEUS–“Man of Sorrow”      hubris=pride/arrogance

God Liber (Dionisus) wants to push people to excess like getting shitfaced.  Penteus=god of thebes, Liber wants to start a new religion, Penteus says no.  Penteus wants to see Dionysis’ followers’ rituals, but chicks only.  Crossdresses, sits in tree to watch, family kills him.

Spragmos-tearing apart a living person.