Mythology and Risk – Module 25

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Requirements

Previous any four modules in SPoR.

Description

This module examines the nature of myth with respect to risk. Mythology is examined throughout history, civilizations and societies using the framework of four layers of myth: International, National, Local and Personal.

Myth is unique and should not be confused with fairy tales, legends, fable or being ‘true’ or ‘untrue’. It is a unique form of narrative and literary genre that has its own ‘being’. Myth is closely tied to ritual and the creation of meaning based on assumptions about purpose and explaining life. Myths establish their own ‘truth’ ie. they are not true according to evidence but are mythically true according to belief, faith and ritualised knowing.

Myth is best understood Poetically and Semiotically. One cannot apply rationalist notions of thinking to myth. This also includes the myth of objectivity and the myth of scientific method.

The four layers of myth correspond to the four layers of the culture cloud and examples/case studies are used to help participants understand how myth is constructed and maintained.

Myths of risk and safety are also examined and de-mythologised using a range of SPoR tools.

Required text

Ricoeur on Myth and Demythologizing

https://www.academia.edu/27024884/Ricoeur_on_myth_and_demythologising

Purity and Danger

https://monoskop.org/File:Douglas_Mary_Purity_and_Danger_An_Analysis_of_Concepts_of_Pollution_and_Taboo_2001.pdf

The Sacred and Profane

https://monoskop.org/images/b/b1/Eliade_Mircea_The_Sacred_and_The_profane_1963.pdf

The Power of Myth

http://www.rosenfels.org/Joseph%20Campbell%20-%20The%20Hero%20With%20A%20Thousand%20Faces,%20Commemorative%20Edition%20%282004%29.pdf

Videos Lectures

The video series is here:

Pw on regiustration.

Learning Outcomes

Increased sensitivity to myths/mythology
Increased awareness of dialectic-mystery-faith
Learn the connection between Poetics, Semiosis and Myth
Develop hermeneutics skills – symbols as myth, myth as symbol
Develop tools to help myth sensitivity/demythologising
To connect: ontology, semiosis, language and meaning
Sensitivity to the embodiment of myth
Understand the dialectic in belief/faith/myth/facts
Understand dialectic and seeking balance

Content

Mythology and de-mythologising
What is myth?
First Nations Dreamtime myths
Egyptian myths
Greek and Roman myths
Mystery cults – Mithras
Indian Myths – Shiva, Ganesh
Universal myths/National myths/Local myths/Personal myths
Correspondence to cultural layers (culture is carried by myth)
God myths, ANZAC myths, Canberra myths, Safety myths
Obsessions, superstitions, ritual necessities, beliefs, interpretations
Myth (cultural) is not fairy tale (child fiction), legend (exaggeration of real person/act) or fable (moral story re animals) nor factual (evidential).
Blurred boundaries
Mythology in risk and safety
The construction and sustaining of myth through ritual
The shape of belief
What is a worldview?
Mythology tool
Ritual tool
Gesture tool
Symbol tool
Creating culture myths
The linguistics of myth
Correspondence between culture layers and myth layers
Understanding myth Poetically, Semiotically,
Culture of safety myths

Assignments

You are expected to keep a journal (A4 if possible) of reflections particularly in relationship to reading the readings and making visits on a related semiotic walk.

Your journal is a thinking, documenting, reflecting book where you use the visual and spacial literacy tools provided in previous units (and experience from the unit on Semiotics) to interrogate space and place and how these relate to following-leading. The key questions for thinking are on the visual and spacial literacy tool.

Your journal can include: photos, floor diagrams, concept mapping, sketches, dot points, flyers, pictures, notes, Venn diagrams, images of semiotics, concept maps, doodles, notes on words, slogans and text or any form of input that helps show how you think and reflect on what you saw.

The purpose of the journal is for you to demonstrate your skill in interrogating place and place and how this defines philosophy.

All philosophy (methodology) is displayed in method, design and the physical world. Eg. Architecture as a philosophy is evident in design, art, music, theatre, literature and the Poetics of Space.

Your journal needs to be posted to Rob at 10 Jens Place Kambah ACT 2902 or rob@cllr.com.au