"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.) 1st 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 |
