Mythology Exam Notes!!! :)
What does chthonic mean? → of the underworld.
Calasso pages to go over: 209-212 (deals with the four stories that make up the quaternity/personality prof ile; myers briggs test which has to do with feeling, sensation intuition and
Stories of Zeus – thinking (everything up)
Stories of Athena – sensation (everything out) related to polis (politics/city)
Dionysus – feeling (down function, everything that is not thinking or not sensation or intuition, pure unadulterated feeling, incubus (demon possess a male’s body and impregnates a woman’s body)
Chthonic – of or pertaining to the underworld. Disassemble your social identity to get you in touch with feeling
Demeter – intuition (infunction)
Page 209 chapter 7: Persephone being abducted by Hades; narcissus flower(narcissist – obsessed with themselves)
Persephone – Kore (means maiden) ← this is what Hades calls Persephone
Triple goddess:
Mother, Daughter and the Crone.
Chapter 8 Page 225-226
Story of Athena – how Athena came to be
Chapter 8 Page 244
Has to do with the mysteries of Eleusis, why the Greeks respect Eleusis more than anything else.
Page 336
“how would you define Homeric theology?”
- What we call Homeric theology is...supremacy of the visible.
- Religion is that which we see; Greek
- When you can no longer see you have nothing (daylight and light)
- Ephigonal asks to look at the light one more time
Chapter 11 Page 359
- Comes from the Odyssey;Zeus has prepared a woeful-destiny for us so that in the future we may be sung about the bards.. “why do we suffer?”
- This is the work of the God’s – they brought about the ruin of … So that we may celebrate them later.
Chapter 12 Page 383-391
- Definition of mythology: precedent behind every action (383)
- Invasion of the mind and body
- Cadmus gave to Greece – Necklace which is passed from hand to hand causing disaster.
- What conclusions can we draw – Page 387
- A life in which the God’s are not invited isn’t worth living..inviting them causes disaster
- Why do we talk about Cadmus? Founder of the city of Thebes
- Greatest disaster was fly’s feet (gift’s of the mind, vowels and consonant; the alphabet)
Eliade:
Great Pan’s Dead
WB Yeats: The Second Coming
The Eleuynian Material
The Tarboleum (Rites and Rituals)
Class Questions:
- What does spirtus mundi mean? (multiple choice) : spirit of the world/earth
- Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, who was drawing the chariot (two animals)? The Boar and the Lion.
- What country are the Nacirema tribe from? American’s
- Which of the three things important to the Eleusian mysteries was the origin of theater? The things seen, said or done...It was Done (Dromenon: things done)
- What is the study of the soul? Psychology.
- Who at birth, was her beauty only appreciated by her father (Calasso 204)? Persephone.
- What is the origin of our legal or judicial system? The Athena Story – where by she acquits Orestes for killing his mother; STORY OF ORESTES is at the origin of our judicial system.
- What is the term where women take over the night where they have free reign over the men; no retaliation from men? Tote toge (day of the dead)
- What is the animal that is associated with the tarboleum? The Bull.
- What makes something sacred? If you truly believe something is...made sacred, “doesn’t have to come that way,” make them sacred through ritual
- According to your instructor who is the real hero? Yourself, we are all heroic, not just people in stories
- James Joyce Novel...which talks about an ordinary person going about an ordinary day is modeled by what Greek story (Greek name of the hero)? Odysseus
- According to the Irish poet, WB Yeats, from the second coming...history is composed of two thousand year cycles; which comes from the visitation of a bird who impregnates a woman .
- What is the Greek image for soul? Butterfly
- What did Zeus ingest when he ate the mother of Athena ? Metus (wisdom)
- Which word best typifies a space carved out in which sacred rituals are carried out? Temenos
- Who is the God of the double door and what does it mean? Dionysus, born twice (born of the mother and a father; mother’s womb and fathers thigh)
- What was said to end the pagan world and initiate the religious age? Great Pan is Dead
- What is the fundamental difference between the God and the hero? Mortality; God’s don’t die.
- When do the furies arrive? Kill your mother (blood murder, don’t kill people in your blood line)
- What is the religious significance of Cupid and Psyche according to your instructor? The Psychological Development of the feminine.
- In the Ritual presentations, which ritual was duplicated (told by no more than four people)? The Australian Rain-Making Ritual.
- What is the name of the girl that the king threw a sandal at? Charila
- What Greek play shows the class between tradition and the state; religious? Antigone (play in which a young woman buries her brother even though its forbidden by the state, punishment by death)
- From what term do we get our word senator? Senex
- which of these definitions would define archetype? An ancient or primordial image which is found universally in mythology, fairy tale and fantasy
- Which Eleusian mystery pertains to fertility during a certain month? Maypole ** (phallic symbolism)
- 22 points of the hero formula? **Hero Pattern** - Who covers most of these more than anyone else? Oedipus, covers almost 21/22.
- In this class, which Christain fitual did we discuss that had to deal with death and rebirth?-Baptism
- Why did Demeter put the baby in the fire? To make him immortal
- What was the archetype of a daddy’s girl? Athena
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