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
  • 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

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