*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