HST149 - Joseph Campbell: Transformations of Myth Through Time

Study Guide for Midterm Exam #1

Mythology
Metaphor
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
function of a mythology
cosmic function
sociological function
psychological function
participation function
hero
boon
paradigm of the hero’s journey
The Goddess of The World
monomyth
first premise of animal life
Kali
maintains itself by destroying life
metaphysics
theology
symbolically
coincidentia oppositorum
Divine bisexuality
Divine androgyny
magico-religious experience
epic legend, ballad, or romance, or it may survive only as superstitions
the idea of a temple
Initiatory rituals
stages of the initiation ritual
Mircea Eliade
Sorcerer of Trois Freres
Shamanism
the soul
material reality
desacralization
lunar cycle
moon
Nietzche
Water
Freud and Jung
Mother
Father
Willing Victim
two fundamental impulses in Native American mythic thought
Navajo tale of "Where the Two Came to Their Father,"
Spider Woman
atonement stage
Apotheosis and Return with the Boon stage
dual nature of reality
creation stories of the Native American peoples
Southwestern emergence myth
the axis mundi
mandalas
Paleolithic caves
Cretan double-axe motif, sacred bull, and the idea of bull-leaping
Bird Goddess
Deer
story of Inanna
role of the Great Goddess 
Ritual
mathematical calculations
astronomy
Stonehenge Decoded
Prehistoric people
Catal Huyuk
the Virgin Mary
Osiris
Horus
mother of Osiris
Seth
Isis
Ra
Henri Frankfort in "The Egyptian Gods"
Nut
unification of opposites
Tools, food, and figurines
human-headed bird
The Pyramid Texts
Hieroglyphics
Feather and heart
Clifford Geertz
Adolph Bastian’s theory
Indo-European invaders
Veda
Rita
Vedic thought
Moksha
Katma Upanishad
Hinduism
Yama
Karma
Maya
Shiva
Hindu social caste
Trident & lingam
Jainism and Buddhism
Mahavira
The Jaina theory
Ajiva
Jiva
Guatama
Reincarnation
Roman Catholic
Purgatory
Dukkha
Samsara
Trishna
Dharma
Nirvana
Hudson River