Know the following items from the Eliade book:
Hainuwele
Apollo
Earth mother of all
Enumelish
Hesiod’s theogony
(Not required to know any other things from the book for the exam)
From Calasso:
Page 5 – the basket (we carry it all the time, on it is the picture of your story, its around you all the time)
Page 15 – etiology “why do men have slim hips”
Page 39 – goats (whole page has to do with Erigone and her father. The word tragedy – the song of the goat Page 81 – etiology “who has more fun making love, the man or the woman”; will give you the answer to this question. Sooth sayer named Tiresias - blind for giving the wrong answer
Page 94 – ate – know what it means, “infatuation”. Divine infatuation, extreme interesting conclusion, a life without divine infatuation isn’t worth living, will bring a certain ruin to you
Page 383 – definition of myth – The precedent behind every action; every step you take there has been somewhere there before you - belated
- model of something that has already been done
(definition of the phrase in illo tempore; “in the beginning”, “in the dream time”, “Once upon a time”)
Page 52 – megan’s blog, in depth of this page in the book, Calasso’s major theme. Constantly declining from one age to the next, age of conviviality, age of rape, we don’t know the god’s anymore (we are in different)
- now we just hear stories about the past
Page 176 – Calasso telling how it all came about, not just how it began but how it came about, that all those people went to wore. Phelops…who was phelops?
- Son of the man of tantalus, the word tantalized, “something you really want but you can’t get”
- Father , tantalus, chopped his son up and fed him to the God’s
- Tormented him in the underworld, apple tree would bend down, but then when he went to grab one it would retract
- Agamemnon, Menelaus - Trojan war
- Leda and the swan -
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/865/- A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
- Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
- By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
- He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
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- How can those terrified vague fingers push
- The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
- And how can body, laid in that white rush,
- But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
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- A shudder in the loins engenders there
- The broken wall, the burning roof and tower[20]
- And Agamemnon dead.
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- Being so caught up,
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- So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
- Did she put on his knowledge with his power
- Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Kinds of creation stories:
Multiple choice:
1. Who was the mother of the muses? Mnemosyne
2. What was Persephone doing when she was abducted by Hades? Picking Flowers
o Particular flower, the narcissus
3. The suggestion that we are all prisoners attached to a wall, refers to what “myth”, allegory of the cave? Plato was responsible for writing that myth
**Question about what happiness brings about, regarding to ate **
4. Who was always described as deceitful and beautiful, she was also thought to be a phantom? Helen
5. Who was Europe named after? Europa
6. What arrives unexpected and possesses? Dionysus
o You’re sitting and next moment he is there, materializing unexpectedly
7. What is the mythological root of “enthusiasm”? en-theos (God inside you)(To be God possessed)
8. Who says ‘One more time Athena love me as much as you can’? Odysseus
9. Abduction is always followed by what? Metamorphosis; in Calasso
10. Which Goddess was born from Uranas dismembered body? Aphrodite
o The Goddess of love
11. Who was the mother of the Minotaur? Pasiphae
12. What word means the tearing of limbs or ripping of flesh? Sparagmos13. Omophagia….
14. The great desire is to arrive where he started? Having to do with the stages of mythology,
o Wants to return to the beginning
15. Define Anamnesis? You already know what you need to know, Recollection
o We have forgotten anything of importance, our teachers remind us of things we have forgotten
16. What does the word ‘Apocalypse’ mean? Removal of the veil
17. What does ‘Eschatology’ mean? Study of the end of time
18. What in the Greek mythology was housed inside the labyrinth? The Minotaur
19. Who was the destroyer of the delights? Death
20. Zeus came in many forms…
o To seduce Io he took the form of Cloud
o To seduce Europa he took the form of a Bull
o To seduce Leda he took the form of a Swan
o To seduce Danae he took the form of Gold
o To seduce Semele (daughter of Cadmus) he took the form of Himself, the God he really was
How wonderful would it be to be able to walk into a room that knows what you need from it and have everything ready for you. As it is I have a really hard time reading with a lot of distraction and thrive with silence, an interesting concept for those who have read that far in The Magus. To be able to lock myself away in a room where complete and total emersion into the book is facilitated would be marvelous. This would be the room I would spend the most time in if fairy tales were real.