I would like to break this up into three parts those parts
being you, me, and myth
You
In this
class I have taken in so much in regards to those around me or my class mates
such as:
When and where Kelly was born: July 25, 1988 Mankato
Minnesota at the Mankato Hospital (talk about how this relates to the origin
stories or birth the first stage of the three also clalled Etiology of which the four primary types of
stories are exnilio, the earth diver which is the most promanite, the stories
of dismemberment, and the stories about a divine creator (which is the one I
had about Genesis 1 which there are in fact 7 days that god created the earth
in.))
How Uncle John chooses to spend his life: searching for
answers as to family heritage and how he has become obsessed with doing such.
The stories of scars that each and every one in this class
has as well as the stories we have recounted that have to do with turning
twenty one (talk about how this relates back to our initiation stories which
involve pain and suffering the second stage of three that we learned about and
everybody’s favorite story the one that I chose to talk about that of the Mardudjara
aborigines of Australia and how they practiced circumcision and
sub-incision)
These are just a few of the lessons and things I have
learned in the you section of the you me and myth subsections.
Me
I would like to talk about some things about me such as one
of my scar stories relating back to the initiation rituals (tell story of how I
tore my ACL)
One more thing that I learned outside of both myth and you
is mythology is all around us for instance we have learned that in myth there
is always a beginning a middle and an end this is true in every example this
presentation will have all three, this class had a beginning a middle and an
end, there isn’t a thing I can think of that doesn’t.
Myth
Finally we have myth there is so much in myth that I have
learned cosmogony or the birth of the universe.
There are so many little factoid that are involved in myth
more that I could ever learn in a semester but I would like to recount a few
such as the Colassos three phases which are Conviviality, rape or invasion, and
Indifference and what a cadeuseus is the staff of snakes these are just simple
factoids I also learned
Stories such as that of the story of Sisyiphus- who was
condemned to forever roll a rock up a hill and once he reached the top the rock
would roll to the bottom and he would repeat the process forever. Or other
stories such as Daphnie and Apollo where Daphnie who was running away from
Apollo pleaded to be changed into a tree and she was granted her wish.
One final interesting thing that I think is worth pointing
out is that Mythos means story and logos means truth so when the two are put
together we get true stories whether or not the mythological stories are true I
think that his has a second meaning. By that I mean all of what I have learned
in this class will be proved true at some point in life the lessons taught here
can be translated to fit limitless situation and by taking this class we have
been offered the unique opportunity to be able to interoperate both the
situations we are put in and the applicable myth and use our knowledge of the
myth to help our outcome in the situation.
That anyway is what I learned.
