CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Apotheosis, Otto Rank, Lefkandi
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Rituals and worship keeps the divinity of the hero. Silver age- violent age of fools, beings whom zeus buried. Bronze age- zeus made them, strong and used only bronze but they died. Race of heroes- better and more just race, divine race, demigods. Iron age- current age, full of toil and bad luck, old age, and bad manners. Religion starts with the worship of dead ancestors. Heroes were buried near the gates of a city to protect it. Cremated in a bronze cauldron, worship the burial. Linked with aphrodite and worshipped at her sanctuary. Heroes were felt to be closer, more concerned with human affairs. Hero altars face west, pits collect blood to the underworld, black coats. Altars face east (sun), animals with white coats are sacrificed. Types of myth: divine myth- emphasis on gods, legends- heroes, set in a specific time and place, folktale- indefinite vague place and time.
