Try to attend some of the inaguration ceremonies as this is a very mythological event. Eating breakfast is an homage to the god ceres. Ceres isthe godddessof grain and agriculture. MSU is a land grant university, agriculture school hence the inaguration of our new president is very mythological.
Beginnings is the study of birth or more so creation. Corrin was born in Franklin WI July 15th 1991 St,.Lukes hospital. Know this for the 1st exam. Sally is from Winifred, MT by Lewistown.
Creation is our concern for the next couple of weeks. Read on line from Primitives to Zin. The second part of the class is middles - Creation is about Harmony. The middle is associated with warfare and pain. There is the initiation phase. Then comes the end. Both the good and bad of this is revelation. Apocalypse is the end of the world.
By Mirecea Eliads accoutn a living myth is "" Seized by the sacred, exalting power of the events recollected.
October 7 is the first quiz -
November 9th second quiz -
Nov. 21 - group presentations.
Read the Metamorphis of Ovid
Mhyth and Reality
Golden Baugh
Creation Stories from primitives to Zen.
Get the essay from e-mail from Dr. Sexson.
Fable - a short story, typically with animals as characters conveying a moral. Myth is not another form of religion it is religion. Most people when they say that is just a myth would mean it is not true. James Frazer said we need to grow up. First he iwll makethe case against mythology. A myth is not malicious it is just niave. Like Santa, Easter Bunny. Tradition and mythology as terms can be interchanged. Everyone should know what you are supposed to do and who you are. Tevia from Fiddler says these traditions are so important - where did they come from - I don't know. Its tradition, the way it has always been.
Sigmund Freud thought we should get rid of any thoughts of illusion/neurosis.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Zenophanies - Greek thinker - believed in the literal Zues. He threw out that the Gods were just projections of the mind.. He said that if horses etc. could draw pictures of their gods then they would look like horses. Another example would be planet of the Apes - their gods looked like apes.
Theomorphic is that animals were our gods. Becuase animals were our food source.
Plato was born when myths were falling apart - Logos and Mythos. Logos is facts - Myths is stories. Logos won the battle. Logos the word of God or principle of divine reason.
Uncle Remus -
Uuhemerus - is chiefly known for rationalizing method of interpretation. know as euhemerism. That treats mythological accounts as a reflection of acutal hisorical events shaped by tetelling and traditional mores.
Allegory = story poem or picture that can be interpreted to releal a hidden meaning typically a moral or political one.
The song of songs - Christs love of the church - the allegory.
The voyages of Columbus started the end - the world is not flat. Figured out that the earth is not the center of the universe. The 19th century is when the fatal blow was struck. James G. Frazer. Wrote the work the Golden Baugh. This was written as science not myth. Making fun of what we did believe.
20th century - Frederick Niche - God is dead. Said myth and religion is the opiate of the masses.
Next - the way we are. This was the way we were. Another story is there to be told.
The way we are.
Myth cannot be outgrown. It is how the human mind tries to figure out what we are.
in illo tempora - in that time. "At that time" found often in Gospel lectures during masses used to mark an undetermined time in the past.
Dreams is where the real things happen. Go home and dream. Don't use the term just. Nothing is Just it is used to minimize.
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