Notes from 10/28/2010

"Animals are often employed as a vehicle for carrying away or transferring the evil.  when a Moor has a headache he will sometimes take a lamb or a goat and beat it till it falls down, believing that the headache will thus be transferred to the animal."

Lit 285 10/28/2010

The END

Once we are done with all our exploring, our goal is to know how we got to our end from our beginning.

 And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

How do you know what you think till you see what you say.

Eliade ch 4-Blog on in summary form, it could be said that, for primitives, the end of the world has already occurred, although it is to be repeated in a more or less distant future.

Pg 56-

We laugh in order to keep from crying- Froud

Shakespeare- 7 stages of man—birth, child, school, lover, justice/wisdom, old person, death

Eschatology- concerned with death, judgment, and the final

Ontology-

Catharsis-process of releasing, and thereby

Dasolgerices-alternate laughing and weeping

Ovid ch 15

Pythagoras-

Zed and two knots is a chip about decomposition.

Difference between Literal eschatology-believe in the end of the world

(Mythical)Realized eschatology-end of your perceiving the world insufficiently

William Blake is a British poet (the name of the band Doors came from one of his poems)

The Doors song “the end of the world as we know it”  - Movie the apocalypse now

The Golden Bough/The Apocalypse Now

The golden Bough in Nintendo GameCube(eternal Darkness), anime Eureka 7, Jim Morrison phrase “not to touch the Earth/Not to see the sun”, in film apocalypse Now, The wicker man, V for Vendetta(film)

See the film Apocalypse Now

Every culture has a way in while the world will end. 

3 Great religions Judaism, Christianity, Islam

Vishnu-Bud

End of the world will only happen once accounting to Christianity

Oriental views a circle end of the world