While watching the first video one thing stuck out to me in the beginning. I liked that as a person who's religious stories come from the Bible, the host said that they were neither denying or confirming them. I thought it was an important piece of information to point out early on, because people may get offended by this. I also liked that they mentioned that the myths being told are not facts, and can be questioned. The first story they talked about was the story of Persephone. I learned what an etiological narrative is which is also called a narrative story.
The last video went into detail about the hero's journey. It starts with talking about Joseph Campbell's series of events that appear in multiple different stories. Called the the hero's journey or the Monomyth. The monomyth has 3 main parts to it, 1. separation, 2. trials & victories of initiation, 3. return. The monomyth is then tested against the story of the Seven Sisters.
(Caption: Grecian and Roman mythology image by Flicker)
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