SYLLABUS FALL 2000: OVERVIEW

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INTRODUCTION:
PARADIGMS
AND
MYTHS
1 8/29 Introduction
2 9/3 Paradigms and Flood Myths
3 9/5 Paradigms and Conflagration Myths
4 9/10 Recent Upheavals and Combat Myths
5 9/12 Myths and Comets

MESOPOTAMIAN

6 9/17 Enuma Elish
7 9/19 Story of the Flood, Archaeological Destruction Layers

GRECO-ROMAN

8 9/24 Theogony and Comets
9 9/26 Deucalion, Phaethon, Four Races of Men, The Trojan War
10 10/1 Greco-Roman Philosophers
11 10/3 Homo Schizo

JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN

12 10/15 Genesis
13 10/17 Exodus: God's Fire Ch. 1-3
14 10/22 Exodus: God's Fire Ch. 4,5,8
15 10/24 Psalms and Prophets
16 10/29 Revelation of John
17 10/31 Commentaries on Revelation

MESOAMERICAN

18 11/5 Popol Vuh Parts One and Two
19 11/7 Popol Vuh Part Three
20 11/12 Popol Vuh Part Four
21 11/14 Legend of the Suns
22 11/19 Book of the Jaguar Prophet

NORSE

23 11/26 Gylfaginning
24 11/28 Voluspa

CONCLUSION:RELIGION AND THE DIVINE
PSYCHOLOGY
25 12/3 The Divine Succession Ch. 1-4
26 12/12 The Divine Succession Ch. 5-9
27 12/14 The Divine Succession Ch 10-Conclusion

 
 

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