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Notes from March 8, 2005
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acteon:  17 year old Greek boy, hunter, sees goddess Diana bathing naked in the woods.  she catches him looking, flicks water at him, he sprouts horn, turns into a stag, and is chased down and killed by his own dogs.  moral isn't "Don't Look" bur rather to not look with the wrong kind of eyes at the female divine.
*if you look in an uglifying way, what you see will appear to you ugly, ie looking when you shouldn't- medusa, orpheus, acteon??

sparagmos: the tearing of live flesh
Group 1 summary:
Hawaii, Pelee goddess, ugly to beautiful, volcano erupts-destruction-creation, prince-suicide-resurrection-dead again; Pelee negative elementary
Group 2 summary:
Sioux; White Buffalo Calf Woman, the giving mother, gave to them the pipe ceremony, the buffalo, tobacco
Goup 3 summary:
Iraq; Inana and Dumuzi; she doesn't want to marry shepard but rather the farmer, but eventually does marry shepard; all about agriculture; 1st love story
Group 4 summary:

A Taste Of Earth

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