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Bierlein: What is Myth? • Language and Myth • Time and Myth • Sacred Time vs. Profane Time • History and Myth • Civic Myth • Morality and Myth
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Bierlein: What is Myth? Language and Myth Time and Myth Sacred Time vs. Profane Time History and Myth Civic Myth Morality and Myth.

Dec 21, 2015

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Page 1: Bierlein: What is Myth? Language and Myth Time and Myth Sacred Time vs. Profane Time History and Myth Civic Myth Morality and Myth.

Bierlein: What is Myth?

• Language and Myth• Time and Myth• Sacred Time vs. Profane Time• History and Myth• Civic Myth• Morality and Myth

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the projection of human features or qualities on the divine

Mean = 2.8214

1 2 3 4

0% 0%

82%

18%

1. theriomorphism2. personification3. anthropomorphism4. aetiology

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A separate time for a separate reality that transcends everyday routine

Mean = 1.069

1 2 3

93%

0%7%

1. sacred2. profane3. mealtime

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Which of the following is not an example of sacred time?

Mean = 2.1379

1 2 3 4

0%7%

0%

93%

1. Christian Eucharist2. a wristwatch3. the Jewish Sabbath4. a football game

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Bierlein: What is Myth?

• Language and Myth• Time and Myth• Sacred Time vs. Profane Time• History and Myth• Civic Myth• Morality and Myth

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Myths, History and Material Culture

Was there a Troy?Was there a Trojan War?Was there a Trojan Horse?

Was there a labyrinth?Was there a minotaur?Was there a King Minos?

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Troy (Ilium)

Iliad = the story of Ilium

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Odysseus’ Boar Tusk Helmet

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Heinrich Schliemann

Born: January 6, 1822 in Neu-Buckow / Mecklenburg, Germany Died: December 26, 1890 in Naples / Italy

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Hissarlik

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Troy Today

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Priam’s Gold

Troy “Rich in Gold”

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Important Dates• c.2000 B.C. Troy II (Priam’s Troy?)• c.1250 B.C. Troy VIIa destroyed by fire• 1183 B.C. Traditional Date for the Fall of Troy • 1871-1873 Schliemann excavates at Hissarlik• 1945 Priam’s Treasure disappears in the ruins of

Berlin• 1993 Treasure reappears in Pushkin Museum in

Moscow

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World Tricksters

• Sisyphus• Hermes (Mercury)• Prometheus• Shaharazade• Anansi (Beirlein 159-165)

• Maui (Bierlein 111-115)

• Coyote• Brer Rabbit

Why are almost all tricksters MALE?

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Trickster Characteristics

• a mischievous or roguish figure• vulgar but sacred• makes up for physical weakness

with cunning and subversive humor

• alternates between cleverness and stupidity, kindness and cruelty, deceiver and deceived, breaker of taboos and creator of culture