So essentially, know Vittoria's blog by heart:) But seriously, she has the bulk of the material from which the material for the test will be drawn. Here are a few of the highlights I caught during the blur of review.
25 questions on the entire exam
The most important line in The Magus: “All that is past possesses our present…
Logos = Word (creative word, word that creates the world) Capitalized W not an accident
Vitoria’s wonderful story of the Kangaroo
1 question from each 6 group presentations
What was the song from the closing credits of group 5 presentation? “White Wedding”
Who was Oprah compared to in Group 2? Zeus
From Group 1 – How many different versions of one myth are there? Infinite
Group 3 – The title from The Shameful Truth came from The Magus.
Group 6 –What was each person’s character in the group? The pirate, irish, Viking, cowboy, Egyptian, chinese
Group 4 - That’s all folks. Darrell in our class had the best one liners, both are mythological, refer to both the end. Here we go again.
Read blogs about individual presentations and see if there is anything that really hits out! Primary passage in The Magus all that is past possesses the present.
Every answer is a form of death. P. 626
Cicada
Ritual of Adonis (were asked to look up and google) death of a person at too young an age.
Sacred – sacrifice to make sacred
Masque a certain type of theater. Look at Tori’s Blog
The collective unconscience
Eliade story of Chung Tzu and the butterfly
Something becomes a sacred action when it is in remembrance of the divine.
The journey up is a mythology
The god game
Orpheus and Eurydice. Divine musician. “Black Orpheus”
The Bhagavada Gita
The Swerve Greenblatt
Eschatolgy
Metempsychosis
Parabola
Asides: I'm not entirely sure if this was just mentioned to be mentioned
Muses taught humans how to sing
We are only here on this earth to do one thing and that is to sing.
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