CL_HUM 1060 Lecture 2: Myth test 2 notes
27 Apr 2016
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Has pet deer/stag which he accidentally kills. When the deer dies, cyparissus is super upset and wants to die with deer. Reincarnated into a cyprus tree (link to death and mourning) News is brought to apollo by pet raven. Apollo got angry and shot coronis in her tits. He regrets it and didn"t know she was pregnant. The raven was white and out of anger and depression, apollo turns the raven black. The kid was taken to centaur chiron. Kind, helpful, healing, compared to jesus-like character. Incubation chambers in sanctuary: ritual: calling up of sacred snakes ; symbols of rejuvenation because they shed skin and believed to absorb fevers and infection because they absorb heat. Ancient thermal springs were used in sanctuary for the sick. Offerings made to asclepius in form of marble carved body parts. So powerful that he raised a man from the dead, zeus thought he was too much.
