Week 2 Extra Credit Reading Notes (Video)

Source: What is Myth? by Mike Rugnetta

Myth means Mythos or stories with two primary characteristics:

• Significance
• About something important, something about how the world works
  
• Staying Power
• stories that survived centuries, sometimes millennia and is the testament to the deep meaning or functional importance of these stories to the people who hear and tell them. 

E.B. Tylor: myth is primitive science

Source: Theories of Myth by Mike Rugnetta

 Source: The Hero's Journey and the Monomyth by Mike Rugnetta

Journey Begins Part 1 Separation: The Call to Adventure -> Refusal of the Call -> Supernatural Aid -> Crossing the 1st Threshold -> Belly of the Whale.

Part 2 Trials and Victories of Initiation: Meeting with the God or Goddess -> Women as Temptress -> Atonement with the Father -> Apotheosis (becoming god) -> The Ultimate Boon

Part 3 Return: Refusal of the Return -> The Magic Flight -> Rescue from Without -> Crossing the Return Threshold -> Master of the Two Worlds -> Freedom to Live

Mythology. Source: Wikimedia