Jan. 9, 2013
- Mythos is stories, fairy tales, fables
- Mythology
- precedent behind all actions
- Origins
- back to the beginning
- Story of Mary & Martha
- only 1 thing is necessary
- biblical
- Metamorphoses
- transformation of Souls
- chapter 15
- story of Pythagoras
- In ilo tempore
- everything goes back to myth
- 3 Divisions of myth
- Aristotle
- beginning, middle & an end
- referenced in Alice in Wonderland the King
- Start at the beginning and go until you reach the end
- Logos is "the world"
- can also mean truth, fact
- Mythology
- comes from mythos & logos
- combining stories and truth
Jan. 11, 2013
- Sequence of Myths
- beginnings
- creations stories
- middle
- initiation
- returns
- death
- returns
- King Midas and the Barber story
- Initiation - Pain
- scars
- patterns
- learning experience
- signals transformation
- where there is a scar there is a story
- scars are very mythological
- Piece of Psyche
- story of Psyche & Cupid
- Precedent
- Cinderella
- Snow White
- Sparagmos
- Wikipedia
Jan. 14, 2013
- Memory Palaces
- odder & more interesting the better
- allows entire universe to be held with in the mind
- Henrik Isben
- plays
- A Doll's House
- Hug a Tree
- take a picture
- Daphne & Apollo
- Adonis' birth
- According to Myth
- everything is alive
- Braving obstacles
- mythology in every day life
- sings, clues, & symbols
- Call to Adventure
- everyone has their own
- All stories are de-generated Myths
- Contract with the Frog
- Don't forget
- Princess & the Frog
- really a call to adventure
- Mono-myth
- separation, initiation, & transformation
- After Ovid: New Metamorphoses
- contemporary reality
- Ovid still applicable
- "mythical key to extreme forms of Human behavior
- Holocaust, sexual harassment, suicide, sex change, torture, war, etc.
- Italo Calvino
- writer
- compact point at beginning of the World
- Big Bang Theory
- Ovid's story is of rapidity
- overlapping & high speed
Jan. 16, 2013
- No such thing as distractions
- always leads to mythology
- Epiphany
- Christian festival
- manifestation of a deity
- Zen to Primitive
- Hyperborean
- Norse mythology
- The Song-lines
- Displacement of Creation Myth
- useful
- Book 11
- Orpheus singing
- Maenads
- Crazy women
Jan. 18, 2013
- Orpheus
- stories within stories
- Arabian Nights
- 6 Levels
- recursive stories
- Theseus & Pirithous
- Theseus killed Minotaur
- abandoner of woman
- Helen
- born out of an egg
- daughter of Ledna and Zeus
- raped by Zeus in form of a swan
- "a sudden blow great wings beating still"
- W.B. Yeats
- Caster and Pollox- Helen's brothers from one egg
- Helen and Clytemnestra- born from Ledna's second egg
- Pirithous
- Persephanie (wife of hades)
- gets stuck on bench
- tells Hercules saves Pirithous
- ripped off part of his tush
- why Greek men have small butts
- Sunday & Cybele
- pg. 278 sing the song of Jove
- pg. 267 Pygmalion
- made a woman
- fell in love
- to modest to advances
- was she alive or not?
- he called her his wife
- bring to life
- blessed by Venus
- had a baby girl
- Pretty Woman
- My Fair Lady
- George Bernard Shaw
- mythology is the president of everything
- synchronicity
- unlikely to occur together
- no coincidence
- concept of Jung
- Sisyphus
- push rock up hill for all of eternity
- Ixion
- wheel of fire torture all of eternity
- Tantalus
- served up own children to gods
- tantalized for all of eternity
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