StoryLab Week 4

For this weeks Story Lab I decided to watch the Crash Course Myth Videos. There are 3 videos total from YouTube, all under 14 minutes long (Yay!) Hopefully they have close captions, because I forgot my headphones today, and always feel bad when I have things playing loud in public places. Also in the Library, because I forgot my headphones, I keep hearing tours of campus. Why did I forget my headphones, today of all days, in my car. (yay for closed captions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeX6CX5LEj0&list=PLrWYQjLLbXcigjUCnKKR86F5zrcQqfiP-&index=2&t=0s

What is Myth Notes from Video: 

• mythology touches on literature, history, anthropology, sociology, psychology, religion and even science
• mythology is a slurpee of knowledge
• many myths are very very old and have many versions
• mythology is open to many interpretations
• mythology is not facts in a sense that  their meaning can be confirmed by a evidence
• can be understood in a number of ways
• the line between myth and religion is blurry
• most myths don't have nameable authors
• we can define myth as in not true, or as a story that is false and not to be taken seriously
• philosophers have been writing about the absurdity of Greek myths as far back as the 6th century bc
• myth comes from the Greek word mythos, which means word or more significantly, story
• a myth is a story but it is a special kind of story, has 2 primary characteristics: signifigance and staying power
• all myths are quasi-religious
• story of Zues, Demeter, Kora their daughter and Hades. Pomegranate seeds. Kora has to live with Hades in the underworld for 6 months out of the year
• etiological narrative or origin story
• Kora renamed Persephone, Myth explains the seasons relating the cycle of planting and harvest to the actions of the immortals
• science has taken place of myths so we don't need myths anymore to explain things/the world around us

Theories of Myth Notes from Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blFaiB5kj6I&list=PLrWYQjLLbXcigjUCnKKR86F5zrcQqfiP-&index=3&t=0s 

• how people think about mythology
• study of myths= mythology
• critical analysis has been around for a long time
• plato was the first to equate myths as lying
• Euhemerism has come to mean interpreting myths as primitive explanations of the natural world or as time distorted accounts of long past historical events
• for many centuries Europeans artist drew a great deal from classical Greek and Roman myths
• Aryan hypothesis, focused more on origin and content than function
• study of mythology changes again in the 20th century when it joins forces with the new discipline of anthropology 
• anthropologist would conduct field work to discover how myths functioned in living societies
• a psychologist Jung-defined a number of archetypes that he saw as aspects of every person's psyche and in his estimation, the characters that appear in myths are versions of these archetypes. the collective nature of human consciousness may be one reason we can find similar mythic characters from stories originating in many parts of the world. 
• Campbell- mythology is ultimately and always the vehicle through which the individual finds a sense of identity and place in the world

The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XevCvCLdKCU&list=PLrWYQjLLbXcigjUCnKKR86F5zrcQqfiP-&index=4&t=0s

• the  monomyth is the journey aspect is really crucial though for Campbell that's exactly what the hero does the journey away from safety and towards adventure before coming home again
• "we are all heroes struggling to accomplish our adventure. as human being we engage in a series of struggles to develop as a individuals and to find our place in society. beyond that we long for wisdom, we want to understand the universe and the significance of our role in it"
• myths are not written by their authors but instead their manifestation of universal cosmic forces that shape the human subconsciousness
• the heroes myth has 3 parts and 17 sub parts
• part one separation: call to adventure, refusal of the call, supernatural aid, crossing the 1st threshold 
• part 2 trials and victories of initiation: the belly of the whale, the road of trials, the meeting with the goddess, woman as temptress, attolent with the father, apotheosis, the ultimate boon, and the refusal of the return
• Part three return: the magic flight, rescue from without, crossing the return threshold, master of two worlds, and freedom