SOCL 2001 Chapter : IMAG0188
Document Summary
Intro to mythology: the word myth comes from the greek word mythos, which means "word," "speech," Sex: believed "dream signals" paved road for myth, carl jung, all myths part of the "collective unconscious, claude levi-strauss. Saw myth as a mode of communication, like language or music. Way to reconcile conflicts: a classical myth is a story that, through its classical form, has attained a kind of immortality because its inherent archetypal beauty, profundity, and power have inspired rewarding renewal and transformation by successive generations. In the beginning there was chaos: not necessarily a deity, but perhaps a void, from chaos came, gaia (gaea, or ge) earth, tartarus a deep place in the middle of the earth, eros, Erebus is the gloomy darkness of tartarus, and night: gaia first brought forth uranus, uranus- equal to herself so that he might surround and cover her and be a secure home for the gods forever.
