Late to class - couldn't leave office in time.
Eliade says that myth is 1. Sacred- connected with God (or gods) Myths provide safe passage into reality.
promote social cohesion - put one in touch with the entire cosmos.
The year of living biblically. Promise Keepers - religious mens group.
"History is bunk" - Henry Ford. You must mythologize your life.
Myth how something came to be the way it is. Not to question how it came to be, but how did anything come to be at all.
The most famous line in literature - To be or not to be. He is speaking ediologically.
Joseph Campbell - People living mythically know exactly what they have to do because it has all been spelled out. Campbell says that mythology has
4 primary functions; Mystical - Cosmological - Sociological - Psychological.
Psychological is the most important one becuase it supports the other 3. Myth is at every stage of life to help us along. However we no longer regard our elders the same. Behind all heroes is the same pattern. Leave home - has a revelation - comes home.
T.S.Elliot
We shall arrive where we started
We shall not cease from exploration, at the end of all of our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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