Extra Credit: Crash Course/Extra Reading Notes
Great
Goddesses
Archetypes began with Carl Jung. He believed archetypes are collective unconscious as a result of just being human...
The Father
Creator and the Great Mother are the Great Goddesses focused on in this clip.
The Goddess
Movement focused on:
- Fertility aspects of the female
- Signified fertility
- Successful births
In this clip, Mike talked a lot about The Triple Goddess
The Triple Goddess
- Sorts goddesses into three types:
virgin, mother, and crone
- System that sees women through the
eyes of men (basically by sexiness)
- Control the cycles of growth, decay,
and rebirth
Mother
Goddesses are many multifaceted
We saw a lot of patterns in the stories other Mother Goddesses. Many times, Goddesses try to have a relationship with mortal men and it doesn't always work out. For instance, Otohame was a Goddess who took a fisherman and kept him her immortal world for centuries. He never aged, but became homesick. So, she then returned to home and told him to not open this box. Of course, he opened the box and aged the amount of centuries he had been away from home and died.
Fire and
Buffalo Goddesses
(Hawaii)
When it comes to Fire Goddesses a lot of stories have to with places where there are volcanoes.
Pe le was a tripple goddess and had three sisters. She had a long ongoing promise with one of her sisters. The promise was that Pe le wouldn't burn her sister's friend's land if she went to go get Pe le"s man and promise not to touch or seduce him. Pe le didn't keep her promise, so the sister kissed Pe le's man. Becasue Pe le is a triple goddess she made the volcanoes erupt.
Buffalo Goddesses are mainly focused in Buffalo Nation. The People of
Buffalo Nation have a complex religious system. The Buffalo Goddess, White Buffalo Calf Woman was a very impactful goddess. She gave many gifts to
the buffalo nation and told them that they were special.
Goddesses:
- offer a sense of order
- and encourage the right behavior will be rewarded
- powerful
- desirable
- give and take
- they
suggest a relationship between worldly desire morals
- create social order: how to treat one another
Archetypes
and Male Divinities
In mythology, males
appear as:
- fathers
- sons
- kings
- judges
- savior
- sages
- shamans
- tricksters
- lords of destruction
From creation
myths, fathers
appear unapproachable and the son is always striving to take his spot, but they
want to won over his approval...
King/judge:
gods are in human leadership roles, justify monarchical power on earth
Male
divinity act as judges to humans
Savior gods:
- The son
that will nourish humans
- Humans
shaman appear in many cultures, super natural powers are used to find the
answers to pressing question, ex: Hermes (messenger)
