What is Myth? Crash Course World Mythology #1
Presenter: Mike Rugnetta
Mythology touches on the subjects of: science, religion, history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and sociology
Myths can be very old and there can be many versions
Myths are open to interpretation
Myth and religion has a blurry line
Most myths don't have nameable authors
Significance and staying power are two important factors to myths
"All real myths are religious or at least semi-religious"
Mythic is due to staying power
Kore = "girl" (daughter of Demeter and Zeus)
Talks about Kore/Persephone, which explains the seasons
Mythography
Themes: Creation myths
Pantheons
End of days
Theories of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #12
Mythology - systematic study of myths
How are myths studied?
Starts in Ancient Greece
Euhemerism - time-distorted historical events
"Myth is falsehood"
Mythos and Logos
18th and 19th century is when mythology took off
Sir James Frazer (Scottish anthropologist)
The Golden Bough
Myths = primitive science
Bronislaw Malinowski (Trobrian Islands)
Living people
Myth is a direct expression
Freud and Jung says that the human unconscious is the basis of myth
Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
Mythology allows for identity and placement within the world
Claude Levi-Strauss
Used structure
Binaries (man-woman; raw-cooked; hero-enemy)
Mircea Eliade
Binaries
Preferred archaic
The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth: Crash Course World Mythology #25
Everyone has heroes
Observing Joseph Campbell
The Hero's Journey/Monomyth
Heroes tell us about ourselves
Jung
"Myths are manifestations of universal cosmic forces that shape the human subconsciousness"
Campbell Monomyth
Part 1: hero retreats to realm of unconscious
Call - Refusal of Call - Supernatural Guide - Crossing 1st threshold - Belly of Whale
Part 2: contains trials and victories of initiation
Trials - Meeting Goddess - Woman as Temptress - Confrontation w/ Father/""figure
Apotheosis - Ultimate Boon
Part 3: return and reintegration into society
Refusal to Return - Magic Flight - Rescue from Without - Crossing the Return Threshold - Master of Two Worlds - Freedom to Live
Australian mythology
Seven aboriginal sisters
Wish to conquer hunger, pain, and fear
Pleiades
Self-reflection within Campbell's framework and mythology
Presenter: Mike Rugnetta
Mythology touches on the subjects of: science, religion, history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and sociology
Myths can be very old and there can be many versions
Myths are open to interpretation
Myth and religion has a blurry line
Most myths don't have nameable authors
Significance and staying power are two important factors to myths
"All real myths are religious or at least semi-religious"
Mythic is due to staying power
Kore = "girl" (daughter of Demeter and Zeus)
Talks about Kore/Persephone, which explains the seasons
Mythography
Themes: Creation myths
Pantheons
End of days
Theories of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #12
Mythology - systematic study of myths
How are myths studied?
Starts in Ancient Greece
Euhemerism - time-distorted historical events
"Myth is falsehood"
Mythos and Logos
18th and 19th century is when mythology took off
Sir James Frazer (Scottish anthropologist)
The Golden Bough
Myths = primitive science
Bronislaw Malinowski (Trobrian Islands)
Living people
Myth is a direct expression
Freud and Jung says that the human unconscious is the basis of myth
Joseph Campbell
The Power of Myth
Mythology allows for identity and placement within the world
Claude Levi-Strauss
Used structure
Binaries (man-woman; raw-cooked; hero-enemy)
Mircea Eliade
Binaries
Preferred archaic
The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth: Crash Course World Mythology #25
Everyone has heroes
Observing Joseph Campbell
The Hero's Journey/Monomyth
Heroes tell us about ourselves
Jung
"Myths are manifestations of universal cosmic forces that shape the human subconsciousness"
Campbell Monomyth
Part 1: hero retreats to realm of unconscious
Call - Refusal of Call - Supernatural Guide - Crossing 1st threshold - Belly of Whale
Part 2: contains trials and victories of initiation
Trials - Meeting Goddess - Woman as Temptress - Confrontation w/ Father/""figure
Apotheosis - Ultimate Boon
Part 3: return and reintegration into society
Refusal to Return - Magic Flight - Rescue from Without - Crossing the Return Threshold - Master of Two Worlds - Freedom to Live
Australian mythology
Seven aboriginal sisters
Wish to conquer hunger, pain, and fear
Pleiades
Self-reflection within Campbell's framework and mythology
(Image Information: Pleiades; Source: Wiki)
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