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Notes from January 25, 2005
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*mythos: story (greek)
*"myth is the precedent behind every action, its invisible, ever-present lining."(383Calasso)
make:  poesis (greek)
*"in illo tempore"  in the great time of the beginning- Eliade
*Herder's Volk Mythology
   -an orginal people and language we all desecend from
   -the myth of the perfections of the beginning
   -something more pure, real, and geinius in the past
*2 THEMES OF MYTHOLOGY
   -abduction
   -metamorphoses
*"The Polar Express" vs. the Nuremberg Rallies
   -mindless admiration for hte charismatic figure
   -importance of belief vs. danger of believing for the sake of believing
*logos-truth
*mythos-the belief syndrome/ lie
*myth and logos- story or word
*mythologize vs. demythologize
*invoke the muse

ejournal for professor Sexson's mythology class at montana state univeresity