Class Notes

- To be or not to be... (Hamlet)
- Ontalogy
- page 15 Hainuwele
- To pythian Apollo
- The Earth, Mother of All


Eleusinian Mysteries


Tenemos - piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain, especially to kings and chiefs
              - land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, a sanctuary, holy grove or holy   
                 precinct.


Agrarian - land developed for agriculture


Persephone - Kore.


Rituals
- Things go bad if things are not done right


- Burial of a dead man
- Antigone (sophocles)


-Horrible things happened
- Confrontation of who's following the right ritual Creon and Antigone. Who's right?
"Even traitors receive proper burials".
- Collision of rituals
Antigone protecting the rights of individuals


- HALLOWEEN: A mythological event
- feast of fruits and seed
- deads
- all souls day
- exposion of demons and evil
- Rights of Kenosis (emptying out of the year) Plerosis in German


- Tote toga: women take over the last day of the year 
> Anything goes
> Everything is legal and free
> Fasnacht festival


New year's Eve
- so many liberations
- intoxications, moment of suspension of rules
- women takes over


Nacirema (Americans) - highly developed market economy
- teeth brushing
- showering


Sororities and Fraternities Initiation was once painful
- growing pain
- joints pain
- growing too fast


- Metamorphosis


- Eleusinian mystery
Most important ritual
"I have experience death and rebirth"
"Failure of nerve"
Earth is preparation of getting out


Satyr - Half man, half goat; love dancing, playing their pickolos


> The Wind and the Willows
Piper's at the Gates of Dawn
- Pan The Great God
- Erase the memory because the experience is too much to handle 
- remember just a tiny bit
- When hearing the music of the willows, they're on the verge of remembering something important.


> Mysteries of Eleuses
Keikeyon
- Gift of immortal for Demeter's child failed.
Escatology (Eliade)
movement from middle to the End.