Are We Figments is someone's dreams 2/15 Class Notes
Orpheus-Greek musician played the lyre, almost a personification of music. His lover dies so being the mythic character that he is, he goes down into the underworld playing music the entire way. He manages to entrance all of the guardians of Hades and even makes Hades himself weep. As a reward for his brilliant music Hades says that you can have your girl back you just can't look at her until your get back on earth. Orpheus is thrilled and he continues playing his music out of the world as his girl follows him. At the very last moment right before the emerge into the daylight, Orpheus looks back...and his girl dissipates into nothing.
Music is mythological. music=muses, daughters of Mnemosyne
Dreamtime- Australian idea related to music, the landscape is a musical score
All stories are creation stories in some way
Many divine impregnations by birds
Yeats- the visitation of the divine in the form of a bird onto a mortal woman ->2000 years ago the cycle began with Zeus-age of classical myth->2000 years later-Christ
Earth-diver, common in Native American myth usually starring a turtle
Reemergence-evolutionary
Gnostic tradition- primeval demiurge created the world-explains why there is evil in the world
deus faber-the god who creates stuff, an architect type of deity
Music is mythological. music=muses, daughters of Mnemosyne
Dreamtime- Australian idea related to music, the landscape is a musical score
All stories are creation stories in some way
Many divine impregnations by birds
Yeats- the visitation of the divine in the form of a bird onto a mortal woman ->2000 years ago the cycle began with Zeus-age of classical myth->2000 years later-Christ
Earth-diver, common in Native American myth usually starring a turtle
Reemergence-evolutionary
Gnostic tradition- primeval demiurge created the world-explains why there is evil in the world
deus faber-the god who creates stuff, an architect type of deity