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*the snake in Adam and Eve
*Calasso's definition of myth:  the precedent behind every action
*mythos-story logos-truth
*Calasso's 2 themes of Greek Mythology:  abduction and metamorphoses
*Xenaphones- had the idea that gods are prokections of their worshippers i.e. cows envision gods that look like cows
*in gnostic mythology, the evil creator of the corrupt material world is the:  demi urge
*etiology:  the explanation of how things came to be
                -complex:  creation of world
                -simple:  how the leopard got it spots
*Weigle's 9 creation myths:

1) accretion of conjunction storeis

2) secretion stories

3) sacrifice stories 
4) division of consummation stories ("cosmic egg")

5) earth-diver stories
6) emergence stories

7) two creators (demi urge)

8) Deus Faber (to make)
9) Ex Nihilo (out of nothing)

*"in illo tempore"- in the great time of the beginning
*Plato's theory of knowing:  anamnesis
*God is dead- Nietzsche ( a demythologizer)
*Campbell;s monomyth: separation, initiation, return
*trickster:  teaches one not to presume anything
*Greek musician who traveled to Hades to retrieve his dead fiance:  Orpheus
Campbell's 4 creation myths:

1) female alone

2) female and consort

3) dismembered body of goddess 
4) the spoken word

*ontology recapitulates philogony:  the life and sotries of a culture are recapitulated in one's own individual story
*demythologizers:  Marx, Nietzsche, Frazier, etc.
*GROUP PRESENTATIONS
     -chaos, universe, chaos:  Hindu creation story of Vishnu Purana
     -sky woman:  Iroguois, an emergence story
     -mother earth's womb an anthill:  Amma and Nummo, the Dogon people of Nigeria
     -sweat from armpits:  Eddas, Norse, first humans from ash and elm tree
     - sacrifice story:  Summerian creation story of Ulligara and Zalgarra (the blood of slain gods crucial  
      ingredient)
     - two failed attemps of mud and wood people:  the Mayan creation story of the Popul Vu