Notes February 20

• Class average 85/86% on exam #1
• If you want to make up some points from low exam, focus more on blogs. Prove to Dr. S that you are engaging with the material.
• If you are at a loss look at Logan's blog- Very good example
• Monday
• Initiation Myth Presentations start
• pain, suffering, unpleasantness, etc...
• Same order as last time
• THREE MINUTES
• Cultural Initiation
• more traditional, ceremonial, tribal
• talk about the modern version of initiation that you have gone through
• show that you are a mythical detective
• how you changed from the experience
• can find some on Eliade or searching the Internet
• Good search words are rites of passage, rites of rituals, and similar wording
• Australian Tribal Initiation
• talked about in class
• Good example of initiation that we will be presenting next week
• http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/142.html
• represent things dramatically
• alma mater
• great mother
• initiation into a new life
• Mater dolorosa
• crying mother
• murmurs of maternal lamentation
• commencement
• designed to cut the umbilical cord between person and alma mater
• Story of Hades abducting Persephone
• etiology of marriage
• compromise
• part of time above earth and part time in Hades
• "all marriage is rape"
• father is supposed to give away bride
• abduction
• Should be reading Book 4 Metamorphoses
• Pain is the theme
• Pyramus and Thisbe - model of Romeo and Juliet- star-crossed lovers
• pathos