9/8 Mythology Notes

"There is an object that represents one of the highest peaks of civilization, with respect to which all others we are familiar with are but watered down derivatives: the bronze caldron."

Ideology -> How something came to be
Stories on how X got its Y, how the zebra got its stripes and so on and so forth.

Mythology is a system that answers all your questions. Myth is a system of total explanation.
Illo Tempore -> in the beginning.
Anamnesis -> "is a concept in Plato's epistemological and psychological theory that he develops in his dialogues Meno and Phaedo, and alludes to it in his Phaedrus."
Myth of the cave -> Allegory of the cave...You know everything you need to know, you just forgot.

Professor Sexson said: "We all once had wings, but they started to get heavy and we fell into the human realm."
Wings of desire
Model -> imitative
"In the beginning, God said let there be light."
                                                 -Bible
Behind creation comes the creation of the world of a Greek goddess.
Tiamat was the great grandmother of Marduk. Marduk goes into battle with Tiamat, cuts her in half, one for the Heavens and one for the Bowl of the Earth. Marduk is an Akkadian.

Hebrews -> The Exodus -> The Flight of people out of Eguypt let by Moses. 1200 B.C.E.
B.C.E. -> Before the Common Era                  (no historical evidence)
Tragedy -> Sparagmos -> the tearing of living flesh.
MASSACRE AT MELOS:

 "In 415 B.C the Miloans who had wished to remain neutral in the Peloponnesian war was attacked. They lost to the Athenians, surrendering. Like Euripides tragedy all the men capable of bearing arms were murdered. All of the women and children were enslaved. The Athenians then brought into Melos 500 Athenians to colonize it. After that it became to be know as Milos and is formerly know as Milos today."

 (http://peloponwar.blogspot.com/2008/01/melos-massacre.html)

Oresles -> his sister was taken and was sacrificed. Her throat cut by their father so he wanted to get revenge on his father. But his mother ended up killing their father, now he intends to kill his mother for killing his father.

Oedipus -> The king and his wife went to the soothsayer (the oracle, Pythia), Oracle of Delphi, said good new and bad news. The good news was that he was going ot have a son, the bad news was that his son would end up killing him and marrying his wife. His wife wanted to drill holes in the baby's ankles and put it up in the mountains and left it there to die. But instead the king has his son adopted to a tradesman, then when the son is older the tradesman sells him to the king and queen of Corinth. Oedipus is a bastard child that killed his father and married his mother.

"What walks on four legs in the morning, two during the day, and three at night?" is what the Sphinx says to all the travelers that come across its trail. If they cannot answer the Sphinx will eat them. The answer to this riddle is a man. He crawls as a baby, walks as a man, and has a cane when he's old.

The End: Death: Slowing down of the system. Doesn't move, doesn't function.
The Middle: Transformation: Metamorphosis.

Apocalypse -> take off the vail in mythological terms (take off the vail to see the world as it really is). OR. The end of the world.

And this is the end of my post :) have a great weekend!