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.
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