Notes January 25

• Dreams
• post about dreams
• can be a lucid dreaming but not very common
• Creation Stories
• alphabetically last name
• Starting with Patrick
• Chelsea B., JoAnne B., Shelby B., Zachary C., Carol C., Jennifer C. , Lindsey D. , Steven F., Elizabeth G., David G., Megan G., Julia G., Viviana H., Wendy H., Cyril H., Amber H., Shelby J., Max J., Courtney J. should all plan on going.
• William J., Jason L, and Jacob M. should be ready just in case we make it through more people than planned on.
• Creation Myths 
• Wikipedia link on pages
• creation classifications available at link
• blog about presentation after you present
• tell about story, its classifications, and your experience
• Enuma Elish
• Babylonian Epic of Creation
• Marduk & Tiamat
• Biblical Creation Stories
• 2 stories
• Created the world in 7 days....
• disembodied god
• Story of Adam and Eve
• god with body (hands & knees) 
• Tihom (not sure if this is the right spelling)  & Tiamat
• relationship between Biblical story and Babylonian story
• Axis Mundi
• center of Earth
• connection of Heaven and Earth
• "Navel of the World"
• leads back to trees
• Black Elk
• "Center of the world is where ever you happen to be"
• And then one day.... 
• original sin which effectively ends in ilo temp ore
• Forbidden Fruit
• Tree of Knowledge
• essential to creation stories
• green eggs example of forbidden fruit
• All mythology can be represented in three symbols
• Joseph Campbells Stages of Mythology
• circle
• wholeness harmony
• two circle halves
• initiation, separation
• a dotted circle
• return, transformation
• List of stages of each stage
• Snake
• cunning villain
• creates the fall 
• perpetuates the idea of the forbidden fruit