Notes February 22

• Rites never get boring
• always a new lesson to learn
• Thanks for the lesson Flat Stanley & Trent
• Presentations
• no notes
• cultural initiation
• interesting and involve unpleasantness and pain
• Go with the story as that will be the most interesting
• all myths originate in rituals 
• precedent behind every action
• Ritual comes first then comes the story
• rituals are the precedent behind the myths
• myths are explanations of the rituals
• Hebrew Parable 
• In the beginning we did the thing that made the good thing happen and then we told the story. Time went on and we forgot the story and once we forget the story everything is lost.
• As we tell the story, we perform the ritual
• Nacirema- Lindsay's blog
• Autumn's blog- Poem Edna St. Vincent Millay An Ancient Gesture
• Sacrificial victim
• basis of drama
• Dionysus was the god of drama and rebirth
• usually done with agricultural symbols instead of a bear
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored"
• Grapes of Wrath comes from Hymn of Republic taken from the book of Revelation which came from the book of Isaiah 
• Shaman
• to represent something is to be an artist
• Mythology blurs the lines between reality and what has been imagined
• Bear myth that we created
• mimed the thing that we wanted to happen
• act of Shamanic magic
• imitation is as good as the reality
• Communion
• Very mythological
• imagine the blood and flesh of Jesus Christ
• Bear cults
• bowls of bear meat
• bear's skull
• offer a prayer to the bear 
• Textuality
• weaving and unweaving
• Autumn's poem
• Significance of Homer's Odyssy
• A man who has to get home
• Think of homework in a mythological way