Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Class Notes: 14 January 2013

And what does Wilson and Main have to do with Mythology?

-Here we have Bacchus, god of wine
-Here we have Erotique
     -Eros
     -Aphrodite/Venus

Lesson: Myth surrounds us. Be alert to its myriad of clues.

-Moonwalking With Einstein: A must read

-Rituals of mourning: a prescribed thing to achieve prescribed results.

Let us talk about Sexson's visit to the doctor.

-"I am Pedar. I was your student 15 years ago."
-Mythologies in which the class read The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
-He gives the appropriate definition of myth.
-Next visit, Sexson will tell him all about Andre Gibson

-Hug a tree.

-The Call to Adventure: leave mundane life and head into the unknown

-Fairytales: degenerates of myths
     Ex: myth of the frog and the princess

Heed these words: There is a woman behind every hero.

Education= Transformation

"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." 1 Corinthians 13

Myths offer a mythical key to most of the most extreme forms of human behavior and suffering.
Extreme behavior and suffering = holocause, plagues, sexual harrassment, rape, incest, seduction, sex change, suicide, love, torture, war, depression, intoxication, drugs, etc.

-Italo Calvino: the point that expands.

Ovid's Metamorphoses is the ancient world's version of cinema.

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