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Notes from March 10, 2005
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Group 5 sumamry:  Kali- so beautiful she doesn't know she's perfect, other goddesses cut off her head and put her head and body in hell.  then they feel bad and try to put her together again, accidentally put her head on the body of a prostitute.  wise man tells her there is hope; desire + regret; embodies all feminine archetypes
Group 6 summary: 
Gnostic stor; pistis/sophia(wisdon) creates vlind god samael, the demiurge and ruler of chaos who thinks he's the only god and he creates earth and adam and the seven authorities.  so sophia creates eve of light- like the garden of eden story; 2 egyptian boys found gnostic manuscripts; sophia-sophisticated, sophists, philosophy; gnostics thought snake as ahero of story because he gave the people knowledge
*Jung a gnostic, depth psychology
snake wound around the staff-symbol of medical profession
helenism, people realize more than just their religion out there

hieros gamos:  sacred marriage
hades, persephones(daughter of demeter, eats pomegranite seeds)

prognostication-prognosis-knowing, knowledge

cadmus and harmony 206
snake-bull as sea-land
demeter- goddess of grain, ceres-cereal persephone-goddess of corn
narcissus-saw reflection in pool, flower persephone's picking when abducted
eleusis-city where demeter was nanny in search for persephone

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