Final myth stuff
- What is the only permanent thing? Change
- What is the modern version of pan and Apollo? Tenacious d
- Study the Signature/archetype
- Who brought snow Pygmalion to life (in the presentation)? John madden
- At the beginning there was the flood and at the end there was a flood
- How did he get away from the cyclops? He said his name was no man
- What can be said about all ends? They are all beginings
- What two parts did Corrine say were about the same? The heart and the groin
- In reference to Tristian's presentation, what did the natives know?
- Oral traditions authentically mythological
- What did John Orsi compare the writing process to? Loss of virginity
- James Joyce compares himself to what mythological personage? God
- Eating raw flesh of one dismembered is called what? Omophageous
- Read afterword of Ovid
- P155 of eliade: if cattle and horses could draw pictures of their gods, they would be projections of themselves
- P199: fairytales in the appendix. Paraphrasing, sagas can be distinguished from fairytales. Tragedy is tragic and the happy ending of the fairytale is not to be seen as stupid, it's a transcendence of all the suffering. Willy wonk lived happily ever after. The oral vs written tradition. The ways in which mythology damages catholic view.
- P172: popular theology...superstitions in which come back and retold over and over and over
- P177childrens myth
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