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Myth
· Theological aspects:
o Epistemology: revelation
o Eschatology: what will occur in the final days
o Theodicy: idea of creator
o Soteriology: how to be saved
· Forms of religion:
o monism good and evil come from the same place
o dualism: good upstairs, bad downstairs
o deism: creator made laws that govern universe then left
o theism: everything is controlled by creator
§ Forms of theism: polytheism, monotheism, henotheism, pantheism
o atheist: there is no god
o agnostic: uncertain
o Animism: spirits, etc.
· Theories of religion:
o Biological/evolutionary: adaptive. Might be rooted in areas of the brain.
o Psychological/psychoanalytic: repression
o Sociological/behavioral: religion us glue in society, can be a force of change in society.
· Frazers Golden Bough:
o It revolutionized anthropology, folklore, and religious studies. It distinguished between magic and religion.
· Types of myth:
o Creation
o Apocalypse
o National identity origin
o Theodistic ( Pandora)
o Parables
· Theories of myth:
o Functionalist: Malinowski was the founder. It suggests that It functions for people in the face of an uncertain world.
o Structuralism: Levi-Strauss was the founder. Mythology structures the world into a binary set of oppositions (Chinese myth).
o Euhemerist: treats mythological accounts as a retelling of actual historical events shaped by retelling traditional mores.
o Social charter: Didactic. Mythology and religion is social glue binding the community together.
o Psychoanalytic: Carl Jung. Collective unconscious and anima.
o Ethno scientific: myth was a way to record scientific findings.
· Myth within Culture:
Ideostructure (worldview/ ideology)
Myth, mythology
Biostructure ( Social relationship)
Political economy
Infrastructure(maternal culture)
Praxis, rituals, behaviors
· Disjunction: symbol doesn’t always mean what it appears
· Relics are things that have had physical contact with the sacred (Ex: shroud of Turin, etc)
· Iconoclasts: image breakers
· Jung:
o Collective unconscious, archetypes. Myths are the dreams to a race and dreams are myths of the individuals. Anima.
· Creation myths
o Eden:
§ Medotpotamia
