Since the semester is almost over, I wanted to do something a little different for this week. I generally write stories, but I wanted to try a story lab. I chose to do the Crash Course videos for a few reasons, the first of which is that I just genuinely love Crash Course. The second is that I thought it would be fun to take the knowledge I have absorbed throughout the semester and apply it to the three videos I watched. I wanted to see what broad knowledge about myths and mythology in general I could apply to my own writings, as well as the stories I have read through the semester.
Persephone being taken to the underworld by Hades, as referenced in the first video.
- Some myths are crazy old and exist in many different forms
- There are many different interpretations of myths
- The line between myth and religion can be blurry
- Myth: a special kind of story that that has two primary characteristics- significance and staying power
- Subject is about something important
- Stories that have survived centuries
- Myth of Persephone- Etiological Narrative
- Daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and wife of Hades
- Primitive science
- Types of Myths
- Creation
- Pantheons
- Apocalyptic
- Heroes
- Objects
- Mythology: the systematic study of myth
- Plato was among the first to equate myths with lying, but if they were philosophical myths they were rational
- Euhemerism: interpreting myths as primitive explanations of the natural world or as time-distorted accounts of long-past historical events
- Tertullian and Clement- myth as falsehood and influenced by demons
- Mythos vs Logos
- Myths as falsehood vs myths as transcended truth (base for western mythology)
- Theologies
- James Frasier and The Golden Bow
- concept of myths as primitive science
- Bronislaw Malinowski
- myth is not symbolic but it is a narrative resurrection of primeval reality
- Freud (ugh)
- we make terrible realities palatable with myths
- collective human consciousness
- Joseph Campbell- "The Power of Myth" in the 1980s
- Mythology is a vehicle through which the individual finds a sense of identity and place in the world
- Monomyth
- Claude Levi-Strauss
- Structuralism: myths betray a complicated and underlying structuralism
- Mircea Eliade
- Sacred vs Profane
- Archaic vs Modern
- Heroes: tell us something about ourselves and a goal to find our place in society
- The Hero's Journey: Momomyth
- 3 Main parts
- Separation from the world
- Call to destiny/adventure
- Refusal of call
- Supernatural Aid
- Crossing the threshold
- Belly of the Whale
- Trials and Victories of Initiation
- The road of trials
- The meeting with the goddess
- Woman as temptress
- Atonement with father
- Apotheosis
- The ultimate boon
- Return and Reintegration into Society
- Refusal of the return
- the magic flight
- Rescue from without
- Crossing back over the threshold
- Master of the two worlds
- Freedom to live
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