Quiz one questions

"the practice of observing strict chastity as a condition of success in hunting and fishing is very common among rude races; and the instances of it which have been cited render it probable that the rule is always based on the superstition rather than on consideration of the temporary weakness which a breach of the custom may entail on the hunter or fisherman."

Test question

·         7/15/91 Franklin WI, St Luke’s Hospital- Corrin was born

·         Mythos means story

·         Logos means time

·         Areas for the exam

Myth reality 1,2,3,7

PDF- Myth the way we were the way we are

Larry Brown’s cliff notes (read all of it)

Ovid’s Metamorphoses book 1-4 (before you get to Perseaus story)

Look at the chart of the name of the Greek/Roman gods and goddesses (Major ones)

The class notes (Karri Bowl’s blog)

Things on the black board

1.)    Pan & Syrinx- who put artoes to sleep

2.)    What do mythos & logos mean (story and truth) mythos has gone off into fanisty. Logos has gone off to truth.

3.)    What is Illo Tempore- before creation or “in the great time” or once upon a time

4.)    Axis Mundi-the center of the world

5.)    Omphallos-the navel of the earth

6.)    Sparagmos-dissmemberment

7.)    “time present is time past”

8.)    (Ch 7 of Elioda’s) Anamnesis means unforgettin or platonic recollection (Letha is the river of rememberance)

9.)    5 types of myth- creation ex nihilo, earth diver, emergence, dismemberment, splitting or ordering (will tell a story and ask which one it is)

10.) Xenaphanes stated what? Gods are in the image of theirs “people”

11.) Phanes-the greek diety , has to do

12.) The process of a soul beginning a new cycle-Metempsychosis (the transmigration of souls)

13.) Cumaean comes from greek word meaning prophecies. (Cumaean Siybel)

14.) Europa is the question?

15.) 1^st book of ovid, what where the ages of man? (who brought the age of silver about? When jove took over or overthrow

16.) Picture question (Humpty Dumpty? Creation stories)(figure out the common theme from all our storys)

17.) Four creation stories-

female created world all by herself,

women and snake create,

how the world was created from dismembered body of female goddes,

Male created the world from speech (logos)

18.) Eni-theos=enthusiasm (possessed by the gods)

19.) Deamon-the alter ego/guardian angel

20.) Semele/Juno

21.) Four daughters of Cadmus and Harmony

a.       Semele

b.      Autonoe

c.       Agave

d.      Ino

22.) Coronis (the crow or Raven) daughter of Phlegyas. Apollo’s lover .

23.) Why crows are black-because the white crow gave apollo bad news about coronis being pregnant.

24.) Kronos is the god of Zeus (arouno, Kro and zeus know how each keep children from overcoming them)

a.Uranus-stuffed his children back into mother

b.kronos-ate them

c.killed the mother

25.) Corona is the ring around the moon

26.) What 3 women make up the triple goddess? Mother, maiden, and crone

27.) What animal was Calisto transformed into? Bear

28.) What happened to Actaeon when he gazed on a goddess? Became horny(antlers)

29.) Don’t look storys-madusa,

30.) How did Cadmus create the city of Thebes come about? Scattering of snake’s teeth

31.) Pentheus-refused to worship Dionysius (gets sporagmos (the end))(sporogmos of pentheus)

32.) Thysus-stick w/pinecone at the top.

Olympians	Roman counterparts	domain
Zeus	Jupiter / Jove	sky
Poseidon	Neptune	sea
Hades	Pluto / Dis	underworld
Hera	Juno	marriage
Deméter	Ceres	harvest
Hestia	Vesta	hearth
Athena	Minerva	wisdom
Aphrodite	Venus	love
Ares	Mars	war
Hephaistos	Vulcan	crafts
Apollo	Apollo	music, poetry, sun (later)
Artemis	Diana	hunting, moon
Dionysos	Bacchus	wine, revelry, theater
Hermes	Mercury	messenger, guide of souls

Class notes 9/30/2010

"The divine person is a source of danger as well as of blessing; he must not only be guarded, he must also be guarded against.  His sacred organism, so delicate that a touch may disorder it, is also, as it were, electrically charged with a powerful magical or spiritual force which may discharge itself with fatal effect on whatever comes in contact with it."

9/30/2010

Lit 285

Io & Jove- Io was turned into a heifer by Jove because she would not marry him.  She told her father, Inachus, by writing in the sand with her hoof.  She revealed her identity.  She is guarded by a monster with many eyes named Argus.  His eyes were put into the feathers of a peacock.  Io is turned back into a human and becomes a goddess call Isis.

-read story of Tyrisia

-in mythology words have mythical powers

-rent “some like it hot” (Tony Curtis)

Simally & Zeus (god)convinces god to show him as he really is. Relates to ch33 of Genesis. She explodes when she sees him. Zeus grabs he unborn child and puts it in his thigh. 

-book called “after ovid” Is contemporary poems about storys in Ovid metamorphosis

-Metempsychosis (look up word)

-laryyavisbrown.homestread.com/files/xeno.ovid2.htm  (cliff notes about ovid)(study for test)(link posted on Reo’s blog site)

Zeus and his children and how they became the original Olympians. His children becomes gods.

Things to know for first test:

-first four books of ovid

-stories to know:

Book 1: know all the stories

Book 2:Story of Phaethon,  Callisto, Coronis, (all the stories)

Book 4 : P&T, Mars & Venus, salmacis & hermaphrodites, Cadmus & harmonia, Perseus

Book 3: catmis, action, semele, tiresias, nar

1,2,3,7 know this chapters in Myth and Reality (eliada)

Everything we have covered so far

Essay on D2L by Dr. Saxson  (myth)

*Assignment: bring one question to class on Tuesday (class notes, discussions, )

Almost all questions will appear on test.

Who was zeus father?  Cronose

Class notes 9/28/2010

"the soul is commonly supposed to escape by the natural openings of the body, especially the mouth and nostrils.  Hence in Celebes they sometimes fasten fish-hooks to a sick man's nose, navel, and feet, so that if his soul should try to escape it may be hooked and held fast."

9/28/2010

Lit 285

-read chapter 7 of Myth and reality and blog about it (read Carrie and corrines blog)

-write five sentence pertaining to each chapter of The Metamorphoses of Ovid

-in addition keep track of all the changes and think about the reasons why the happen

-embellish blog s with pictures Ovid’s Metamorphoses related to

-look at Dustin’s blog to get an idea of sentences and blogging styles

-go home and find a Greek to roman transfigures

-Hubris means pride

-etiology is an explanation of why thing are

Greek and Roman gods and goddesses is a good hand book to explain all of them

-Demeter becomes Ceres

-persephony

Greek to Roman (know all the major ones)

-Zeus becomes Jove/Jupiter

-Pitar (means head person)

-Ares becomes mars

-Hermes becomes Mercury

-Aphrodite’s to Venus

-Chthonic means over related to the world (know for test)

-Moribund mean at the point of death\

-Corrine’s birthday is July 16,

Sparogmos-refers to an ancient ritual in which a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, would be sacrificed by being dismembered

Actean had horns grow because of looking at Daphne while she was bathing.

Theos-means god

---Greek mythology of gods, they are the ones that always make you do what you do.

-Daemon-a divinity supernatural being of a nature or god

Apollo & Daphne------daughter of Penus is turned into an oak tree by her father to have protection from Apollo’s love. Her leaves are placed on heads for rulers.

+++look up Daphne or Metamorphosis by Norman O’Brown.  Idea of transformation (Daphne to a tree and the tree to have its leaves placed on the head of man.)

Ovid's Metamorphoses Ch 1-5

"Down to the present day May-trees decked with flowers and ribbons are set up on May Day in every village and hamlet of gay Provence.  Under them the young folk make merry and the old folk rest.  In all these cases, apparently, the custom is or was to bring in a new May-tree each year."

Chapter One
Creation- The start of all and the beginning of the ends.
The Four Ages- Made up of the recession of life from Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron.
The Flood-Jove blanketed the world with water and cleansed all that existed.
Apollo & Daphne-Tragic love story of a God that falls in love. Object of his desire turns into a laurel tree.
Io & Jove- A God falling in love with someone that does not desire him. He then shows his power by blanketing the world in darkness to stop her.

Chapter Two

Phaethon-He took his father's, Apollo, chariot for a joy ride and ended up starting a fire over mother earth.

Callisto- Jove fell in love with her and his wife Juno was jealous and turned Callisto into a bear.

Coronis, the Raven, the Crow, Nyctimene- Spys, tattle tails, and false loyalties

Ocyrhoe- was Chiron's daughter born of a water nymph, and she had the gift of prophecy.

Europa & Jove- Jove made himself a great white bull and leeward Europa out into the sea and took her against her will.

Chapter Three

Cadmus-Slade a snake and spread his teeth in the ground. The heads of Thebes were created because of this.
Actaeon-Was turned into a deer and killed by his own hounds seeing Diana naked.
Semele- Was Joves lover and was killed after seeing him in his true Godly form.

Narcissus & Echo-Echo was in love with Narcissus but he did not love her back. She pined away until all that was left was her voice and she could only answer by repeating.

Pentheus- Was riped apart by his own mother and sisters.

Chapter Four
The Daughters of Minyas- Ditrusted Bacchus' ruling and were story tellers.
Pyramus & Thisbe- Mythical Romeo and Juliet
Salmacis & Hermaphroditus- Salmacis fell in love with Hermaphroditus and wrapped herself around him. They became half-man and half-women.
Arthamas & Ino- Mythical domestic violence that resulted in one child being killed and a mother fleeing with the other.
Perseus & Andromeda-Perseus killed the sea monster and offered sacrifices on an alter.

Chapter Five
Perseus & Phineus-Two brothers that fought over one female.
Minerva, the Muses, Pegasus-sisters who inspired song, poetry, drama, and other art forms showed Minerva the spring that was formed from Pegasus' hoof.
Ceres & Proserpina- Mother wanted to get her daughter back that was trapped in the underworld because of eating pomegranate seeds.
Arethuse & Alpeus-Arethuse became a river after she was chased by Alpeus. She began to sweat and turned into the river.
Triptolemus & Lyncus-Lyncus tried to kill triptolemus to take credit for the making of civilization.

Myth and Reality Chapter 7 Blog

"In Corea the soul of people who die of the plague or by the roadside, and of women who expire in childbirth, invariably take up their adobe in trees.  To such spirits offerings of cake, wine, and pork are made on heaps of stones piled under the trees."

Mythologies of Memory and Forgetting

I our world every culture has its own way of remembering the past to determine what the future will bring or look like.  At times remembering the negative or more terrifying situations in life seems to be easier. We often times are able to recall the more difficult times in our lives first before recalling more stable or joyful happenings.  It is easy to forget happy times in your life when you are faced with daily struggles.  These struggles seem to take the for front of our minds.  Fighting to remember good along with the bad and finding a balance between the two helps, creates balance and harmony in the happenings around you.  What we think we know can only change when we focus on where and what we have been through.

Class notes 9/23/2010

"O friends, in this great city that climbs the yellow slope Of Agrigentum's citadel, who make good works you scope, Who offer to the stranger a haven quiet and fair, All hail! among you honoured I walk with lofty air.  With garlands, blooming garlands you crown my noble brow, A mortal man no longer, a deathless godhead now.  Where e'er I go, the people crowd round and worship pay, and thousands follow seeking to learn the better way.  some crave prophetic visions, some smite with anguish sore would fain hear words of comfort and suffer pain no more."

Lit 285

9/23/2010

Suggestions when reading Ovid’s metamorphoses:

Assignment:

-go on line and fine at least one good picture according to each chapter to post as you blog.

-read Ovid and blog as you go.

- Write down each 15 books and item under each, of Ovid and write down a sentence about each. Your own take on what it means or your translation.

-bog entry about ch 7 in myth and reality by Eliade

-read Geneses, chapter 6 of bible.

Ovid…Beginning of Book:

-Anima -my soul (Latin work)

The difference between amidian creation story and biblical is that the amidian creation is vague on who began everything.

-page 6, the great myth of declining age. (Gold, silver, bronze, iron)

-James Joyce wrote Finnegan’s Wake.  Book tries to cram all creation and myths into one book.

  All women become one.

    -Letha- Lethal

-Anamnesis-recollection, reminiscence, literally-loss of forgetfulness, is a term used in medicine,    philosophy, psychoanalysis and religion first used by the Greek philosopher Plato to equate learning with remembering.

Myth women-Diana, Athena, I-The triple goddess

1. Mother

2. Maiden

3. Crone- old women who is usually disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructing. Is a central mythological character.

Greek mythology creation story:

Aphrodite- Goddess of love.  Know the story of her creation for the test.

Osiris- Egyptian myth. A god originally connected with fertility, husband of Isis and father of Horus. He is known chiefly through the story of his death at the hands of his brother Seth and his subsequent restoration to a new life.

Métis- meant cunningness or craft, skill in ancient Greek.

Athena- Greek mythology.  Goddess of Athens worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, handicrafts, and warfare. She is often allegorized into a personification of wisdom. Also called Pallas.

Leda-wife of Tyndale’s, king of Sparta. (Swan visited her and had children)

Hubris-

Alethia- Latin rendering of healing. Or related to the goddess.

Class note 9/21/2010

"The reader may well be temppted to ask, How was it that intelligent men did not sooner detect the fallacy of magic? How cold they continue to cherish expectations that were invariably doomed to disappointment?"

Lit 285 9/21/2010

Heterocosin- loving in another world as you listen to a story. (Mythic story)

“The final belief is to believe in a fiction which you know to be a fiction there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.”  Wallace Stevens

Axis Mundi- the creation tree. The place where the lower world connects with the upper world.  Image expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet.

Omphalos- the center of something.  Means “navel”

Assign: read someone else’s memory blog and write a blog about it.

*CG Jung: Had problems with Fraud’s beliefs.  Jung had a dream about descending in the basement of a house.  Developed theory of Collective unconscious. (Unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind, as distinct from the individual’s unconscious).

Psyche- means the soul, mind, or spirit. Origin mid 17^th cent: via Latin from Greek

*Joseph Campbell’s dream

-The Razor’s Edge –good read

-Room by Emma Donoghue (told from the point of view of a child) - good reads