by Evan Dwan | Apr 21, 2020 | News |
Karen Armstrong, the historian of Religion, tells us that the Palaeolithic period (c. 20000 to 8000 BCE) was one of the longest and most formative in the biological evolution of humans. Ethnologists and anthropologists claim that these indigenous people were very...
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...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 9, 2020 | News |
Orpheus was a beautiful musician. He played the lyre and sang wonderful songs that made wild animals tame. The trees swayed towards him, the grass stood up and the whole earth came alive and sang with him. Orpheus was deeply in love with Eurydice but one day a snake...
