Class notes

GROUP PRESENTATIONS: 4-5-5

Group one:

Treasure of the gods; Norse

Loki story
Cuts hair off of goddess
Dwarfs make hair
Loki presents presents to the god says his is better gets mouth shown shut.\

Group two:

Seven great deeds of ma-ui

Oceanic

win a place in the house
pushed up sky
created great island
made sun go slower
found fire
overcame long eel
tried to win everlasting life

Group three:

Prometheus

Greek

rift between humans and gods
nectar and emborsa food of gods
Prometheus- for thought
Attempt to belittle Zeus
Prometheus gives humans gifts
Pandora given to Prometheus brother she was created by gods used to punish Prometheus

Group 5:

The raven steals the light

Haida

Elaborate plans and disguise
Box with in a box
Raven was going to steal the light
Made girl pregnant to steal the light

Group 6:

Why we tell stories about spiders

Bees
King of leopards
Python
Stories about god told about spiders

Group 6 (2):

Ajapap, Aja the dog and the yams

Yoruba

Tries to feed families
Steals from farm
Aja gets caught stealing blames on Ajapap

Adjectives of a trickster

lazy
greedy
proud
gullible
hungry
victim of own mindlessness

Class notes Feb. 24

Unmoved mover- god, the beauty in women.

Goddess

Archetype- psychologically pattern

Stereotype- social pattern

Honor thy husband, head covered.

All born of a women.

Depth (not behavioral) Unconsciousness

Frued women, Oedipus complex- penis envy, posses mother, Electra complex- wants father

Unconsciousness- not so easily brought into consciousness.

Subconscious- right below active consciousness.

Superego- angle and devil internalized sense of morals.

Ego- customized sense of identity by culture.

ID- suppressed feelings and urges and needs. Energy and libido- primal wants

Most people repress IB so you be socially acceptable.

Stem from ID moves into the ego such as fantasying dreams and such.

Jung disagreed with the idea that all dreams are sexual symbols.

Freud- you have been liberated because you have brought what was in you unconsciousness into your consciousness.

Jung believed in the collective unconsciousness effect us as much if not more than the personal unconscious in way of archetypes.
Basement is where the collective unconsciousness is located. In this basement there is a trap door which connects all basements.
Collective messages in dreams
Archetypes of the collective unconscious
- We were all born

Common archetypes are found in the language of dreams, fairy tales, myths, and fantasy

Campbell- dream- a personalized myth

Myth- depersonalized dream (transpersonal)

Archetypes-

People- men and women (elementary)
Events- of journey, of quest

Story of capesal overwhelming experience of mother

Woman as pot- holds and contains things

bride-virgin

Class notes March 3rd

Presentations

Group 1

Fire goddess

1. Polynesian from Hawaii.

2. Pala created Hawaii

3. 5 brothers

4. 8 sisters

5. regeneration

6. Puna- land

7. Okpowie

8. Captures heart of prince (hangs self)

9. youngest brings prince back to life

10. makes out with prince, upsets Pala, burns grove

Group 2

White Buffalo Woman

1. Sioux

2. world made by trickster

a. half hearted creation

b. asdf

c. asdf

d. willingness to accept loss

e. asdf

f. sense of world as being obscure

g. asdf

3. walken- scared or holy

4. 2 scouts , climb hill sees white buffalo woman

5. huge bundle/struck by lighting for being disrespectful

6. scared pipe

7. never dieing fire

8. buffalo represents the universe

Group 3

Inanna and Dumuzi

Sumerian

1. ziggurat

2. Me laws of heaven and Earth

a. Stole from father

3. allegory romance

a. intense longing

b. passionate fulfillment

c. Inanna and Dumuzi hate each other

d. Sent to underworld

Group 4

A Taste of Earth

Vietnamese

1. Dragon Prince and Au co.

2. creators of people

3. couldn’t fly back cried creator of vegetation

4. elementary nurturing goddess

Group 5

Kali Beheaded

Hindu

1. perfect but then prostitute

2. All four types of goddess wrapped up into one

3. fundamental

4. transmigrates- samsara- life and rebirth

Group 6

Gnostic

1. medical group of Christianity

2. Way different theory on the basic Christian creation story.

CLASS NOTES FOR MARCH 22^ND

Elvis is mythological
Las Vegas is a major mythological place
Arcotyple male: god figure, father, son, trickster, lord of underworld.
Myth is everywhere
Dionysus- trickster dissembles order
Myth- tradition
God of sleep- Morphis
Alice and spring break rid of self and rid of inhabitations
The big picture
Daughter- Cadmiums turned out bad/ maenads- bacchae- fowlers of Dionysus
Never use psychological excuse always blame gods
Dionysus is not a hero, nonviolent god accused of violence
Psyche- mind- soul pg.110
Goddess inside of you
Some are goddesses of love and some are gods of marriage
Hera- goddess of child birth, marriage and harmony

Male Divine

Zeus- Sky god= lighting= Dyaus +Piton

Order, thinking

Athena- domestic order, out city, touchable, physical sensations.

Down earth, feeling, Dionysus, rejects all that is up
In Demeter, mind self intuition.

Path of a hero by Campbell

o Hero’s mother is a virgin

o Unusual conditions of birth

o Threat on life

o Raised by different parents

o Overcome adversity

o Meets princess

o Reigns

o Losses favor with subjects

o Death on top of mountian