Presentations:
Abby: Conchis/Fowles, Nicholas/reader.
IMPORTANT QUOTE FROM THE MAGUS: "All that is past possesses our present."
"All answers are a form of death.", the story goes on because Nicholas lives at the end. We need to come to terms with not knowing. We are all stupid like Nicholas.
Jessica: The Monster and The Magus.
This started with a story about Jessica's tattoo, which was very interesting as she didn't know what she was getting until it was done. The underlying theme is Nicholas trying to find the monster in his maze, only to learn that that monster is himself. Now he can no longer be human, or beast, but a hybrid.
Jennifer: The Word Made Flesh.
This started out with a memory of bone hunting out by Fort Peck, with the ultimate prize being a complete buffalo skull. A baby starts with gurgling sounds, progresses to speech, and finally the written word. God went in reverse order: The Word groaned and man sprang from the dust. With the Eucharist we do not take power (which was typical of omophagia), but give grace. We wait for the voice singing in the darkness. This last part reminded me of the part in The Magician's Nephew where Aslan creates Narnia by singing in darkness.
Wena: The origins of the Olympics.
The original, or ancient, games were done so heroes could gain power and other material things, such as land. Each sport had a mythological story behind it. Wrestling was Zeus and Kronos fighting for control of the gods. Foot races come from Hermes, while horse racing came from Poseidon. There was much feasting, drinking, and ritual sacrifices. The athletes were fighting for their own honor, as well as the honor of their lands. There was a bit right at the beginning talking about the Olympic torch and flame, which in the modern games starts at the Temple of Hera, and goes around the world to the host city. Side note about the torch: When the winter games where held in Salt Lake City in 2002, the torch passed through Billings, I got to go out, freeze my butt off, and see it. It passed (for some reason) about three or four blocks from my house. The principal of my elementary school got to run it, but he wasn't the runner when I saw the torch.
Jill: Veering to the chathonic path.
Nicholas gets abducted into "the Underworld" and is supposed to accept death and be reborn, but of course he fails to understand what is going on, so he goes through the deed, but gets none of the benefits.
Danielle: Distorted view of reality.
Fale realities are created by not knowing who you are. Conchis tells Nicholas that he can't trust the reality around him, for he doesn't know who he is.
Mary Ann: Modern Myth and Ancient Myth.
Modern myth was covered by a disgusting picture of a "real" mermaid that washed up somewhere over in Asia. There was also mentioning of a girl who has been born with the entire lower half of her body fused. I'll mention here, that there may be two, the one she mentioned is not the one I watched the TLC special on a few years ago. Usually the legs can be separated like conjoined twins, but on occasion that cannot happen. Star Wars was apparently written to be a modern mythology because George Lucas realized that there was nothing for children to look up to. Last we have Andre the Giant who suffered from acromaglia (giantism), I may be wrong on the spelling for the medical term. There are various reports on his actual height. The Ancient myths were covered by a mythology newspaper that she created.
Review:
Have your blogs in by tomorrow morning (12/9/2012).
Logos = Word, specifically creative word.
Group Questions: 1) How many different versions of myth are there? infinite.
2) Who was Oprah compared to? Zeus.
3) Where did we get the name of our project "the shameful truth"? The silent film in The Magus.
4) Darrell had two great one liners, what were they? "That's all folks" and "here we go again"
5) What song was played during the credits in our presentation? "White Wedding" by Billy Idol.
6) Who were the characters at the funeral? Irish, pirate, Viking, cowboy, Chinese, and Egyptian. In that order.
"All that is past possesses our present."/ "Every answer is a form of death." from The Magus.
The succata
Adonis ritual: when someone dies too young.
sacrifice: to make something sacred.
masque: a form of theatre.
Chung Tzu and the Butterfly
The Magus = The God Game.
Orpheus and Eurydice (divine musician).
Bhagavagita.
The Swerve toward eternity.
Eschatology
Metapsychosis
parabola.
NOTE: I may have missed a few of these things. I can only write so fast and we were going really fast. Juniper and Vittoria also have these on their blogs. Juniper said that she got all of it.
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