CLA204H5 Lecture 1: CLA204- LEC1
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Joseph campbell: mythology is other peoples religion o. My religion is true, other peoples religion is a myth. Myth become lies when you mistake the symbol, a myth refers to something o o. On the surface they are about people etc, but the refer to something. Myth might be a reduction of a well known character eg. myth of pope john paul the second o. Not a myth because we know he existed but other stories have arose. Mythology must focus on recollection and keeping in mind that myths are orally based. In 750 bce nestor"s property learned alphabet from someone and applied it to greek which made greece passed from oral to literate culture o o. The minute stories are written down, they become fixed and become a right story . Oedipus who made a great error in which he murder his father and had sex and produced children w. his own mother but there are different versions.
