by Evan Dwan | May 8, 2020 | News |
They arrived, after barely surviving a ferocious storm at sea, at a wooded island, filled with beeches and oaks. On the shore lions and tigers and wolves prowled but when approached they rolled over and purred. Odysseus sent some men to investigate. The beasts led the...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 21, 2020 | News |
Many of the early myths related to the sky. Gazing at the sky, Karen Armstrong suggests, may have given people their first notion of the divine. The sky offered a religious experience without any sense of a god behind it – it offered the essence of the mysterium...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In her book, A short history of Myth, Karen Armstrong tells us that the purpose of mythology is to help us to live more intensely within the world. It is nearly always rooted in the fear of death and extinction. The most power myths are about extremity – they force us...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
Karen Armstrong argues that symbolism came more naturally to people in the pre-modern world that it does today. The Greeks referred to two different ways of knowing: Mythos and Logos. Both were essential and neither were superior to the other. Each had its sphere of...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
King Midas is given a second chance and relinquishes his golden-gift; Orpheus is reunited with his beloved by the gods; Prometheus is freed from bondage and able to re-join his people. Joseph Campbell tells us that the happy ending of fairy tales and myth should be...
