Dream/Coincidence

Last night I drifted to sleep while trying to memorize the Boshongo creation myth in an effort to prepare for today's presentation. Public speaking is a source of anxiety for me, and that anxiety reared it's head in my dream. Coincidentally, I dreamed of the imminent presentation. 

 

I'm walking (rather crutching, because for some reason I have a cast on my leg) across campus to class, when all of the sudden the pathways start moving and I am forced to ditch the crutches and army crawl the rest of the way in order not to fall. I finally reach my destination and hobble into class. When it is my turn to present I make my way to the front of the class and try to start speaking. Unfortunately what comes out of my mouth isn't words, but planets and stars. (Like Bumba in the Boshongo myth). The class is horrified, I'm horrified, and there is a miniature universe spewing from my mouth and nostrils. I look up and realize that I am in fact in the wrong classroom (which make's for an unsympathetic audience). An impossibly muscualr professor then proceeds to physically throw me out of the classroom. In mid air I turn to liquid and wake up before splashing all over the ground. 

So if I seemed uneasy today, it was a combination of a dislike for public speaking, and fear that I may vomit into existence a new realm of being. 

Hug a Tree

Myths on TV/Crazy Women

Blogging is not my forte, and so I've been trying (and failing) to conjure up something interesting to write about for the past few days. Honestly considered going with Sexton's advice of, "Here kitty, kitty". However I don't think anyone would have enjoyed that. The tangent today about meanads reminded me of a show that I watch, so I figured that I would just go with that.

 My favorite television show of all time is Xena: Warrior Princess. Anyone familiar with the show knows that many of the characters are those of myth. Aries, Aphrodite, Neptune, and Dionysus appear within the first few episodes alone. Aside from the direct mythological references, the fact the main character is a woman seems very fitting. In most of the myths that I have read, women have been the driving force behind most actions. The lecture today about meanads reminded me of an episode in where Xena had to defeat the banchees. Both meanads and banchees are described as women in a frenzy however, banchees come from Irish myth and meanads come from greek. Anyway I just thought it was interesting how separate cultures have myths about crazy woman. 

Class Notes 1/9/13-1/11/13

-Mythology: The precedent behind all actions

• Mythos: Truth
• Logos: The word
• Mythology: The truth of story

-Stories are useful

• Beginning
• Middle 
• End 

-In ilo tempore: In the great/big time

-Sparagmos: tearing apart

***Find an engaging creation myth

***Read The Metamorphoses asap