Notes For Final Exam!

From the Magus: "All that is our past, possesses our present." (Precedent behind every action)
Logos: capital 'w': Word

Group #1's presentation: How many versions of myth are there? An infinite amount.
Group #2's presentation: Who did we compare Oprah to? Zeus.
Group #3's presentation: Where did we get the title of our presentation, "Shameful Truth"? The silent       film in The Magus.
Group #4's presentation: Darrells one-liners concerning 'ends' in mythology: That's all folks; Here we go agian.
Group #5's presentation: What was the song concluding our presentation?: White Wedding, Billy Idol.

Quote from The Magus: "Every answer is a form of death", and every question, life.

The Ritual of Adonis
Sacrifice: Sacri-: sacred, -fice: to make.
Myth of Chuang Tzu: He dreamed he was a butterfly and realized he could just be a buttefly dreaming of being a man.


Orpheus and Eurydice: God of the Muses, Orpheus, went to the underworld to get back his beloved Eurydice with the power of his song. He stunned the Gods and let her go, under one condition. He could not look back at Eurydice before leaving the underworld. He couldn't help it and looked, and he lost Eurydice forever.

The Cicada myth: Humans were taught by the muses how to sing. They loved it so much they sang constantly and did not eat or drink or slept and they all died and the God's transformed them into Cicada's. Cicada's were bugs that seemed to sing, so they could sing forever.