Video 1: What is a Myth
I liked how they went into how hard it is to define myth, and it's importance to say interpretation. It definitely makes me think it's similar to Religion, and is just as controversial. I find it interesting how, like in many cultures, the stories were passed down and it's hard to know the Origin/author.
Mytho=word
Myth=Special Story
1. significance
2. Staying power
I liked the story explaining Seasons (Persephone and Hades).
Video 2: Theories of Mythology
Plato says myth=lying
philosophical myths = true
Euhemerism: past events turned into myths
Protoendo-European language: Arians people- base of myths
Anthropology:
Frasier = myths as primitive science
Freud: Individual unconsciousness
Jung: Societal unconsciousness
Levi Strauss = Structuralist, binaries (male and female, hero villain, etc)
Eliade: binary (sacred and profane, archaic and modern)
Doty: a tool kit for students
Doniger: comparative, also look at context and difference
Video 3: The Hero's Journey through the Monomyth
Campbell: series of events = Monomyth, journey away from safety to adventure, then back home
Heroes tell us something about ourselves. Universal to all, share identical patterns.
Part 1: realm of unconscious, call to adventure, rescues, finally accepts and gets help. Threshhold guardian. The belly of the whale
Part 2: trials and victories of initiation. 6 elements: road of trials, meeting with goddess, woman as temptress, atonement with the father, apotheosis (enlightenment), ultimate boon
Part 3: return and reintegration to society: 6 elements: refusal of returns, magic flight, rescue from without, crossing the return threshold, master the 2 worlds, freedom to live
useful tool to compare stories
(Image of King Neptune from Flickr)
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