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10/14/10 Class Notes
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| Picasso - Guernica |
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| Titian - The Flaying of Marsyas |
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| Velazquez's Las Hilanderas |
We also talked about Scheherazade's One Thousand And One Nights and Leonard Barkan's Gods Made Flesh but I could not find them to preview online.
20101012
Something Mythological I've done
"The custom of tearing in pieces the bodies of animals and of men and then devouring them raw has been practiced as a religious rite by savages in modern times. We need not therefore dismiss as a fable the testimony of antiquity to the observance of similar rites among the frenzies worshippers of Bacchus." (Frazer 454)
I'm supposed to blog on something Mythological I've done, right? Well, I'm not sure exactly how mythological it is but it is kind of epic; I was in a phenomenal reading group for Finnegans Wake and for a Corona Project we made a video of memorized lines from several different novels or epic poems. The myth here is most likely in the ritual of re-membering the dis-membered lines of these brilliant authors.
riverrun from Rio Gonzalez on Vimeo.
I'm supposed to blog on something Mythological I've done, right? Well, I'm not sure exactly how mythological it is but it is kind of epic; I was in a phenomenal reading group for Finnegans Wake and for a Corona Project we made a video of memorized lines from several different novels or epic poems. The myth here is most likely in the ritual of re-membering the dis-membered lines of these brilliant authors.
riverrun from Rio Gonzalez on Vimeo.
20101011
Book I
"Thus among the benefits which the Aino anticipates from the slaughter of the worshipful animals not the least substantial is that of gorging himself on their flesh and blood..." (Frazer 599)
Prologue: Prayer to make this book immortal
The Creation: An unnamed god created the universe our of chaos, including flora, fauna, and potentially people, though that may have been Prometheus.
The Four Ages: The perfect beginning falling into entropy beginning with the succession of Jove after overthrowing Saturn; the child unable to match the father and maintain his pantheon and empire.
The Giants: Jove smashed the three giant mountains and the Earth formed humans from their gore. (2nd human creation?)
Lycaon: Jove 'tests' Lycaon's loyalty to the gods, Lycaon tests Jove's godliness with real food, Jove smashes all his stuff and makes him a Furry.
The Flood: Jove floods the Earth; the end.
Deucalion & Pyrrha: Jove kills everyone in the flood save Deucalion & Pyrrha, the Delphic Oracle tells them to toss the bones of their mother over their shoulder so they toss bits of Mother Earth (rocks) over their shoulders and re-populate the world.
Python: One of the stones thrown by Deucalion, or more likely Pyrrha because of the female/snake association, turns into a HUGE FRIGGIN' SNAKE and it is killed by Phoebus (Apollo), by being riddled with arrows.
Apollo & Daphne: Phoebus (Apollo) mocks Cupid so Cupid shoots him and makes him fall in love with Daphne who he makes hate Apollo (Phoebus), he chases her, she flees and turns into a Laurel tree which Phoebus wreathes his head with to signify victory.
Io & Jove: Jove and Io have a fling, Juno almost busts them but Jove turns Io into a heifer (cow) and gives her to Juno to placate her and soothe her fears on infidelity, Juno has Argus watch over Io, Jove asks Mercury to get Io Back by killing Argus so Mercury plays the Syrinx Pipes to try to lull Argus to sleep.
Syrinx: Mercury tells Argus the story of how Pan Pipes or Syrinx pipes came to be; how Pan wanted Syrinx but she ran away and was changed into reeds by nymphs to preserve her chastity & Pan made a flute out of her reeds to be able to communicate with her.
Io & Jove (part II): Argus falls asleep from the story and Mercury cuts his head off, Juno takes his 100 eyes and places them in the feathers of her sacred animal, the peacock, after this Jove begs Juno for Io's life and promises he'll never cheat on her with a cow again so Juno folds and Jove turns Io into the goddess Isis.
Phaethon: Isis had a son, Epaphus who challenged Phaethon's part-godliness so Phaethon ran to Mummy and asked her if she, Clymene, had really been with Phoebus, and if he was truly a half-god so she tells him to go ask Phoebus himself, which he promptly heads off to do so.
Prologue: Prayer to make this book immortal
The Creation: An unnamed god created the universe our of chaos, including flora, fauna, and potentially people, though that may have been Prometheus.
The Four Ages: The perfect beginning falling into entropy beginning with the succession of Jove after overthrowing Saturn; the child unable to match the father and maintain his pantheon and empire.
The Giants: Jove smashed the three giant mountains and the Earth formed humans from their gore. (2nd human creation?)
Lycaon: Jove 'tests' Lycaon's loyalty to the gods, Lycaon tests Jove's godliness with real food, Jove smashes all his stuff and makes him a Furry.
The Flood: Jove floods the Earth; the end.
Deucalion & Pyrrha: Jove kills everyone in the flood save Deucalion & Pyrrha, the Delphic Oracle tells them to toss the bones of their mother over their shoulder so they toss bits of Mother Earth (rocks) over their shoulders and re-populate the world.
Python: One of the stones thrown by Deucalion, or more likely Pyrrha because of the female/snake association, turns into a HUGE FRIGGIN' SNAKE and it is killed by Phoebus (Apollo), by being riddled with arrows.
Apollo & Daphne: Phoebus (Apollo) mocks Cupid so Cupid shoots him and makes him fall in love with Daphne who he makes hate Apollo (Phoebus), he chases her, she flees and turns into a Laurel tree which Phoebus wreathes his head with to signify victory.
Io & Jove: Jove and Io have a fling, Juno almost busts them but Jove turns Io into a heifer (cow) and gives her to Juno to placate her and soothe her fears on infidelity, Juno has Argus watch over Io, Jove asks Mercury to get Io Back by killing Argus so Mercury plays the Syrinx Pipes to try to lull Argus to sleep.
Syrinx: Mercury tells Argus the story of how Pan Pipes or Syrinx pipes came to be; how Pan wanted Syrinx but she ran away and was changed into reeds by nymphs to preserve her chastity & Pan made a flute out of her reeds to be able to communicate with her.
Io & Jove (part II): Argus falls asleep from the story and Mercury cuts his head off, Juno takes his 100 eyes and places them in the feathers of her sacred animal, the peacock, after this Jove begs Juno for Io's life and promises he'll never cheat on her with a cow again so Juno folds and Jove turns Io into the goddess Isis.
Phaethon: Isis had a son, Epaphus who challenged Phaethon's part-godliness so Phaethon ran to Mummy and asked her if she, Clymene, had really been with Phoebus, and if he was truly a half-god so she tells him to go ask Phoebus himself, which he promptly heads off to do so.
20101006
Blog responses.
"In magic man depends on his own strength to meet the difficulties and dangers that beset him on every side." (Frazer 824)
Kari Bowles posting reminded me of this song. Not exactly the most relevant but it is fun to see the mundane as highly mythological isn't it? After all, we have all, I assume, sat and had a feeling of near euphoria simply from being and enjoying our environment. Personally I get that feeling every time it is raining and I'm sitting quietly pondering in a coffee shop somewhere that I don't know very well.
"Right Now"
Someone right now is leaving their apartment
Looking down at the street, wondering where there car went
Someone in the car sitting at a signal
In front of a restaraunt, staring through the window
at someone right now with their finger in their teeth
Who could use a little floss right across the street
there's somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket
spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered
Now he gotta walk fourteen blocks
to work at a shop where he's about to get fired.
Someone right now is looking pretty tired
Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired
Somebody living right across the street
She wrote the best things she's written all week
but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink
Can't even think what happened, feeling so confused
And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do
I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes
[Chorus]
But no I'm just taking it in
Out the window of a hotel bedroom again
Tommorrow I'll be gone I don't know when I'll be back
But in this world everything can change just like that,
Like that
Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box
And trying not to get shot in his throat
For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq
Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing
in a war that he's not really sure of the reasons
So we show our support when the press mislead them
Though we more then remain proud and salute the troops
get some I know you boys got some work to do
Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life
And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchiking
Stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner
Sneaking through the border just to work and to eat a real dinner
Right now someone wishes they were you and I
instead of second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide
But right now I'm staring at the window at a frame
with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans
he pulled out his cigarette sparked the light
And walked right around the corner just outta my sight
But yo I'm just taking it in
From the second story hotel window again,
The TV's on, and my bags are packed,
But in this world everything can change just like that,
Like that
[Repeat]
Ya right now somebody sitting in the darkness
Trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment
But they got a little mattress and a little carpet
And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench
You see them when you rushing to get to the office
wife robbed blind when she coming from the market
Right now somebody coming out from the pocket
Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with at
The same time the cops is raising the glock with aim
To fill your legs and back with some hot shit
Right now somebody struggling to stop this man
Who's kick and punching and cussing at the doctors
Down the hall the child taking his first breath
The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet yo
I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet
Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet
The answer to the question that we all seek
can be found depend on how free y'all think
Right now it's somebody who ain't eat all week
That would kill for the shit that you throw away in the street
I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure
One mans pain is the next mans pleasure
one say infinity the next say forever
right now everybody got to get it together man
I'm just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again
Put my luggage on my back I don't know where I'm at
I'm in world where we all change just like that,
Like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that
Just like that, Just like that
[Repeat]
"Right Now"
Someone right now is leaving their apartment
Looking down at the street, wondering where there car went
Someone in the car sitting at a signal
In front of a restaraunt, staring through the window
at someone right now with their finger in their teeth
Who could use a little floss right across the street
there's somebody on the curb who really needs a jacket
spent half the rent at a bar getting plastered
Now he gotta walk fourteen blocks
to work at a shop where he's about to get fired.
Someone right now is looking pretty tired
Staring at a laptop trying to get inspired
Somebody living right across the street
She wrote the best things she's written all week
but her best friends coughing up blood in the sink
Can't even think what happened, feeling so confused
And he knows it looks bad but there's nothing he can do
I wonder what it's like to be right there in his shoes
[Chorus]
But no I'm just taking it in
Out the window of a hotel bedroom again
Tommorrow I'll be gone I don't know when I'll be back
But in this world everything can change just like that,
Like that
Yo somebody right now is dropping his vote inside a box
And trying not to get shot in his throat
For the act of freedom right now somebody is stuck in Iraq
Hoping that he gets shipped back breathing
in a war that he's not really sure of the reasons
So we show our support when the press mislead them
Though we more then remain proud and salute the troops
get some I know you boys got some work to do
Meanwhile right now someones 25 to life
And is standing on the corner with their thumb up hitchiking
Stretching off a lotto ticket hoping for a real winner
Sneaking through the border just to work and to eat a real dinner
Right now someone wishes they were you and I
instead of second guessing freedom thoughts of quiet suicide
But right now I'm staring at the window at a frame
with holes in his arm and holes in his jeans
he pulled out his cigarette sparked the light
And walked right around the corner just outta my sight
But yo I'm just taking it in
From the second story hotel window again,
The TV's on, and my bags are packed,
But in this world everything can change just like that,
Like that
[Repeat]
Ya right now somebody sitting in the darkness
Trying to figure out how to put some heat in their apartment
But they got a little mattress and a little carpet
And they appreciate it 'cause some people on a park bench
You see them when you rushing to get to the office
wife robbed blind when she coming from the market
Right now somebody coming out from the pocket
Trying to dump that rock they run around the block with at
The same time the cops is raising the glock with aim
To fill your legs and back with some hot shit
Right now somebody struggling to stop this man
Who's kick and punching and cussing at the doctors
Down the hall the child taking his first breath
The doctors ain't even passed him to the nurse yet yo
I wonder if he understands what it's worth yet
Like the time spent while we here on the earth yet
The answer to the question that we all seek
can be found depend on how free y'all think
Right now it's somebody who ain't eat all week
That would kill for the shit that you throw away in the street
I guess one man's trash is the next man's treasure
One mans pain is the next mans pleasure
one say infinity the next say forever
right now everybody got to get it together man
I'm just taking it in another strange hotel lobby again
Put my luggage on my back I don't know where I'm at
I'm in world where we all change just like that,
Like that, like that, just like that, like that, just like that
Just like that, Just like that
[Repeat]
20101005
TEST QUESTIONS!
- Myth & Reality Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 7
- Myth, the Way We Were or the Way We Are?
- Ovid's Metamorphoses Books I-IV (Minus Perseus)
- Larry Brown's Ovid Books I-IV & Green Name Chart (Gods & Goddesses)
- Blogs!
- Blackboard (Omphalos, Axis Mundi)
When & where was Corrin born? 07/15/91 St. Louis Hospital in Franklin Wisconsin
TEST QUESTIONS:
1) Answer: Pan & Syrinx
Question: Who put Ardus to sleep?
2) Mythology = Mythos (Story) + Logos ("Truth")
3) What is in illo tempore? In the great time.
4) Axis Mundi is often represented as a ________? The center of the world.
The Omphalos? The naval.
5) What do you call violent dismemberment in mythology? Sporagmos.
6) Anamnesis = Platonic recollection
7) What are the 5 types of myth according to Eliade?
a) Creation Ex Nihilo
b) Earth Diver
c) Emergence
d) Dismemberment
e) Splitting or Ordering
8) Xenophanes stated what? Gods are in the image of theirs "people"
9) Metempsychosis - The Transmigration of Souls
10) Who was it that Jove seduced by turning into a bull? Europa
11) From Ovid's first book, what were the Ages of Man? Age of Silver Jove overthrowing Saturn.
12) Picture question (Humpty Dumpty? Creation Stories.)
13) The four creation stories from earliest to latest?
a) Woman creates
b) Woman and Snake create
c) The World created from Dismembered Female Goddess
d) Male Creates from Speech (Logos)
14) en-theos - enthusiasm (possessed by the gods)
15) daemon - the alter ego/guardian angel
16) Semele/Juno (Book II)
17) Cadmus and Harmony's 4 daughters?
a) Semele
b) Autonoe
c) Agave
d) Ino
18) Io - Hooves her name in the dirt
19) Coronis white or black ravin? Bad news.
20)Uranus, Kronos, Zeus - How did they stop their children?
a) Uranus - Stuffed his children back into mother
b) Kronos - Ate them
c) Killed the mother
21) The Mother, the Maiden, the Crone - Tripple Goddess
22) What animal was Calisto transformed into? Bear.
23) What happened to Actaeon when he gazed on a goddess? Became horny
(antlers, duh...).
24) "Don't look" stories.
25) How does Cadmus create Thebes? Planting of snake's teeth.
26) Pentheus - refuses to worship Dionysus - gets sporagmos (yay!!!)
- Myth, the Way We Were or the Way We Are?
- Ovid's Metamorphoses Books I-IV (Minus Perseus)
- Larry Brown's Ovid Books I-IV & Green Name Chart (Gods & Goddesses)
- Blogs!
- Blackboard (Omphalos, Axis Mundi)
When & where was Corrin born? 07/15/91 St. Louis Hospital in Franklin Wisconsin
TEST QUESTIONS:
1) Answer: Pan & Syrinx
Question: Who put Ardus to sleep?
2) Mythology = Mythos (Story) + Logos ("Truth")
3) What is in illo tempore? In the great time.
4) Axis Mundi is often represented as a ________? The center of the world.
The Omphalos? The naval.
5) What do you call violent dismemberment in mythology? Sporagmos.
6) Anamnesis = Platonic recollection
7) What are the 5 types of myth according to Eliade?
a) Creation Ex Nihilo
b) Earth Diver
c) Emergence
d) Dismemberment
e) Splitting or Ordering
8) Xenophanes stated what? Gods are in the image of theirs "people"
9) Metempsychosis - The Transmigration of Souls
10) Who was it that Jove seduced by turning into a bull? Europa
11) From Ovid's first book, what were the Ages of Man? Age of Silver Jove overthrowing Saturn.
12) Picture question (Humpty Dumpty? Creation Stories.)
13) The four creation stories from earliest to latest?
a) Woman creates
b) Woman and Snake create
c) The World created from Dismembered Female Goddess
d) Male Creates from Speech (Logos)
14) en-theos - enthusiasm (possessed by the gods)
15) daemon - the alter ego/guardian angel
16) Semele/Juno (Book II)
17) Cadmus and Harmony's 4 daughters?
a) Semele
b) Autonoe
c) Agave
d) Ino
18) Io - Hooves her name in the dirt
19) Coronis white or black ravin? Bad news.
20)Uranus, Kronos, Zeus - How did they stop their children?
a) Uranus - Stuffed his children back into mother
b) Kronos - Ate them
c) Killed the mother
21) The Mother, the Maiden, the Crone - Tripple Goddess
22) What animal was Calisto transformed into? Bear.
23) What happened to Actaeon when he gazed on a goddess? Became horny
(antlers, duh...).
24) "Don't look" stories.
25) How does Cadmus create Thebes? Planting of snake's teeth.
26) Pentheus - refuses to worship Dionysus - gets sporagmos (yay!!!)
20101004
9/30/10 Recording
"In modern times money used to be thrown into the canal on this occasion, and the populace dived into the water after it." (Frazer 430)
Glossary of Gods, Heroes and Antiheroes
"In some cases of magic which have come before us we have seen that the operation of spirits is assumed, and that an attempt is made to win their favour by prayer and sacrifice." (Frazer 56)
Glossary of Gods Heroes and Antiheroes
Glossary of Gods Heroes and Antiheroes
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