Ovidian Imagery

"Sometimes the need-fire was known as 'wild fire,' to distinguish it no doubt from the tame fire produced by more ordinary methods." - Frazer

Deucalion & Pyrrha

Apollo & Daphne

Syrinx

Phaethon

Hugging Daphne

"The persons who are thus mutually debarred from mentioning each other's names are especially husbands and wives, a man and his wife's parents, and a woman and her husband's father." (Frazer)

First Memory

"The aborigines of South-eastern Australia believe that a man may be injured by burying sharp fragments of quartz, glass, and so forth in the mark made by his reclining body; the magical virtue of these sharp things enters his body and causes those acute pains which the ignorant European puts down as rheumatism." (Frazer 53)

My very first memory is of a cobblestone street, presumably somewhere in Denver Colorado. It's a slight incline and I'm about a half a block down it from a man who has long blonde hair and is holding his hands out as if hoping i will run to him for a hug. My mother said that he was my godfather Carlos and that I was about a year old. Apparently I began walking on my own at about 8 months and so I was waddling next to my mom, hand in hand, while she was carrying groceries up to our little apartment on the hill.

Ovid's Metamorphosis Site!

"We have now traces the practice of killing a god..." (Frazer)

Ovid's Metamorphosis

09/28/10 Recording

Surveying  the evidence as a whole, we are fairly entitled to conclude that in the mind of the ordinary Greek the two goddesses were essentially personifications of the corn, and that in this germ the whole efflorescence of their religion finds implicitly its explanation.

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Norman O'Brown Daphne, or Metamorphosis

Niobe Crying

Niobe Crying

9/16/10 Recording

Sometimes the temporary king occupies the throne, not annually, but once for all at the beginning of each reign. (Frazer 334)


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Just...

"Viewed in the light of what has gone before, the awakening of the forsaken sleeper in these ceremonies probably represents the revival of vegetation in spring. But it is not easy to assign their respective parts to the forsaken bridegroom and to the girl who wakes him from his slumber. Is the sleeper the leafless forest or the bare earth of winter? Is the girl who awakens him the fresh verdure or the genial sunshine of spring? It is hardly possible, on the evidence before us, to answer these questions." (Frazer 155)

Remembering how we are not to use the word "just" this semester I wanted to post this video which I believe exemplifies exactly why we should limit our usage of the word. If anyone is particularly interested, one of the things I like to do is keep track of the movies brought up in class and blogs and try to get copies of those movies for anyone who is interested in them.

If the quality is too pour to handle, I will make a cleaner version, just say the Word.

9/11/10

In Scotland, then the last corn was cut after Hallowmas, the female figure made out of it was sometimes called the Carlin or Carline, that is;the Old Woman. (Frazer 467)

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9/9/10 Recording

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A book my mother used to read to me that kept me rapt was The Rainbow Goblins.

It's been so long since I've heard it that I don't remember much of the actual story but the basic outline is that there are a bunch of goblins that feed off of color and plan to steal the color from the rainbow to drink its nectar. Well, the rainbow is so full of color that it drowns them and from then on the rainbow never touched the ground again. I've bought the book from amazon and it should be here in a few days so I'll bring it to class with me so people can take a peek at it. I was certain it was out of print so it was really a treat to be able to find a copy in good condition! 

Dream

Actually it was a nightmare, but I'll share it anyway.

I was sitting at my desk working on my computer and my uncle came in, drunk and belligerent. He accused me of something, not in words but sort of a Charlie Brown teacher wah wah

and I tried to ignore him in hopes he would give up and wander off. Instead his belligerence escalated until he was threatening to break something that my mother had given me that she'd loved. The thing he was holding isn't real but it's pretty representative; he was holding a fragile, blown glass statuette of some kind with a red center. It might've been a swan. Anyway I confronted him and tried to appease him but he kept getting more vindictive and cruel until he sort of tossed the statuette off my computer chair. It didn't break and I was relieved but then he suspended it over my keyboard by two fingers, and with a Grinchy grin dropped it. Again it didn't break but that was about the time I woke up. Or rather I was becoming awake since that was the point where I took control of my dream, went all rambo and Jackie Chan'd his ass into the ICU. Very strange... O_o

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8/31/10

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Adonis

Similar practices prevail in various parts of Europe. Thus in Mecklenburg it is thought that if you drive a nail into a man's footprint he will fall lame; sometimes it is required that the nail should be taken from a coffin." Page 198 from the P.G. .Epub

Rio Gonzalez

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