Okay, so here's the back story, the myth behind that myth that lives only in my own mind. I first moved to Bozeman in August 2003 and thanks to the lovely notion of core classes I found myself in the EPS building at 11 in the morning on the first Tuesday of classes. apparently to learn all the mysteries in the sky. Needless to say, I was petrified ( Read more... )

Okay, so I has no real problem with myth as the precedent behind every action. I thought it was was intriguing that everything that we do has a precedent in a myth. Yet when we got to the rest of the sentence, "...its invisible, ever-present lining. She need not fear the uncertain life opening up before her. Whichever way her wandering husband went ( Read more... )

Okay so I was reading my last post and it got me thinking about a paper I had written for my religion class. The role of shadows and never knowing the entirety of any story...even your own personal story. The only things you need to know is that Bait Katib is Arabic for House of the Writers and Asilah is a character in the fantastic book that in a ( Read more... )

I absolutely love this passage from Calasso ( Read more... )

These things never happened, but are always- Saloustios ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, in a land far away, called Greece, the gods were present in everyday life. They spoke freely to humans and were involved in the most mundane aspects of life on earth. Then the relations between god and man became more strained until both species retreated to their respective realms. It is in this era that prophecy became the way ( Read more... )

Class Notes ( Read more... )

Archetypal Male part 2 ( Read more... )

Morpheus- god of sleep and dreams ( Read more... )

Actaeon- young hunter in woods stumbles upon the grove where Diana is bathing, obviously naked. He begins to watch Diana, and she notices him. The nymphs as her handmaidens try to cover her from his sight, but she declines and says that he can look. She then flicked water at his face and horns and fur begins to grow. He turns into a stag and is ( Read more... )