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[eleneta]

give me a good reason why I should teach little people about Persephone and pomegranates.

(I have to write a lesson plan on ANYTHING for tomorrow)

EDIT: "Zeus is responsible for AIDS. Everywhere". -Will

(And Sirkka and I sang obnoxious musical songs at fencing and nearly got ourselves skewered)
Also: I won my first electric bout yesterday :

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[bluefate]

Can you imagine a world where we have lost our myths, where little children grow up to be ignorant of allusions ( ♥ ); why shouldn't they be given the opportunity to discover a love of stories?

(Is the question 'do I really have to teach?' or 'do I really have to teach this?' or 'I need a good excuse to teach this, what d'ya got?')

[eleneta]

the third :)

[bluefate]

I knew a guy in high school whose parents restricted him to the point where they didn't watch tv, he didn't have a Snickers bar until he was 12, and he didn't know any fairy tales. Allusion to "Disney" fairy tale movies passed him by.
This makes me very sad.

Good luck on your teaching.

[eleneta]

thank you :) this is mostly a hypothetical project - but I do believe that the study of myths, the stories that back up a culture, are immensely important. Both what they tell us about the culture, and what they show us about our own. and as we get fewer and fewer languages - what's going to happen to the cultures that were attached to them? are they just going to disappear? but - like we learn from history, don't we also have a need to learn from myths?

[bluefate]

Myths are our way of explaining the world, especially the creation myths.
Even though we have enough research in science, perhaps, to know why the seasons change, myths and fairy tales are still part of the shared underlying stories that we use to socialize ourselves.
And in the case of ancient epic poetry, myths are our source for history.