CLASS 40 Lecture 3: Feb 14 Lecture
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Feb 14, lecture: childhood initiation, seperation, liminal zone (artmeis, reintegration (aphrodite, ritual initiation, seperation, liminal zone, dietary/humanity rules overturned in liminal zones, dionysus and the irrational, 1. Prohetic madness = apollo: poetic madness = muses, erotic madness = aphrodite/eros, ritual madness = dionysus, madness = god gets inside your head and makes u be like them. Gods more powerful, but remote: heroes were felt to be, closer more connected with human affairs, gods panhellenic, heroes city-specfifc. Types of myth: different narrative structures: divine myth, legend. Kings, queen, wars, high culture, i. e. king arthur, specific when/where: folktale. Ordinary people, doing surprising things, purposely vague, do not know when time is set place. We worship heroes more because they are more with us, while gods are more scary and farther away. Somehow come to terms: ultimate boon (reintegration) - bring something back to civilization that is incredibly good, return, apotheosis - become godlike through ritual.
