CLCV 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cosmogony, Samaveda, Yajurveda

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Classical Civilization
• Course: CLCV 2500
• Professor: Yukai Li

Document Summary

Class 20 (religion and myth: mythology is more than just a collection of mythical stories. It is a category more than it has content. What is considered religious and what is not. What are cosmogonies: they can be summed up as a creation myth. It is about the creation of the world: eliade, he understands myth in its role and relation to try to grasp the creation to everything, paden, cosmogonies are the quintessential form of myth. Cosmogonies are the base for most religions: they place at the beginning what is original and fundamental in existence itself, some cosmogonies might have come out of nothing, and some might be about procreation. In some, the world seems to fall from order and lead to disorder. Its not that the world was made by a creator, but the creator becomes what they made. Theory and lincoln: the specific way that lincoln conceives of myth is about social power to create division.