Notes April 10

• Asklepios 
• Secret in the hole ;)
• points will instead be awarded to blogs
• Points
• 100 first exam
• 200 blog
• 100 presentation
• 100 Term Paper (written version of last presentation) 3-5 pages
• Cannot read final paper for final presentation
• 5 minutes
• King Midas
• offended Dionysus
• punished by having donkey ears
• told the barber and the secret got out! 
• Apocalypse Now
• Movie
• End of the World
• based off of the Heart of Darkness
• Wallace Stevens
• "Death is the Mother of Beauty"
• The Importance of Snakes
• Book of Mark Chapter 13
• Apocalypse
• Nina Simone 
• Sinnerman
• Blind Willie Johnson
• John the Revelator
• Book of Revelations
• Chapter 21
• Invincible Man based off this Book of the Bible
• Last Chapter of Isaiah & Daniel
• Importance of Snake
• Asklepios
• son of Apollo
• Snake comes out of the ground and killed but then brought back to life
• symbol of garden of Eden
• but also mythological in its own right
• Ouroboros
• Oracle says
• all you hope to find is far away but near enough 
• start from where you are because it is the tip of the iceberg
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• Gnostic mythology
• will reveal all of the secrets you need to know
• must know the serpent because he will be myself tomorrow 
• Heart of Darkness
• mythological
• descent into the Underworld
• written by Joseph Conrad
• takes place in Congo
• The Golden Bough
• James George Frazer
• studies religion
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• film about an extraterrestrial being
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• a snake ate the plant of immortal life while Gilgamesh slept