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Crushed by Trivial Expenses
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They're all straws, but there's a little too many at the moment. The end-of-year expenses, all come due on August 1st for some reason. BCAA, Insurance (homeowners, a condition of my residency in Community Housing), Kootenay CO-OP Radio, there's the phone bill (every month), the prescriptions (a new thing...), the Dentist (!!!), Nelson Hydro, a dozen other trifling bills I hadn't counted on or - more - knew were coming but due to an involuntary 6 weeks off couldn't address.
So at the moment I'm in the shit, paying them off one at a time...late, every one, but I might just take a week or two to enjoy the break from the phone and internet.
Phlegon of Tralles
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Whom I came across in a book recently read: "Myth and Reality" -
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegon_of_Tralles
And again: https://artandpopularculture.com/Phlegon_of_Tralles
And the Text of His Book of Marvels: ehttps://topostext.org/work/540
Orpheus in the Underworld - Ovid
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A slender book, maybe 4X4 Inches, 100 pages, a curated selection from Ovid on the Myth of Orpheus.
Only there was maybe 2 pages all told about Orpheus, Eurydices, the rest is all the accompanying myths and fables that set up the rest of Greek Mythology. And if 2 pages were told about Orpheus and Eurydices, why then less than a page is devoted to his time in the underworld.
Anyways, Ovid and his metamorphosis. Orpheus and his Lyre. And in the end they were together, he and Eurydices, so - nothing in Ovid's rendering of the myth that I can use, but it was good to be refreshed...
Myth and Reality - Mircea Eliade
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This was interesting, and up my alley. I should have discovered Anthropology a lot earlier, although I always felt I could just show up and join in on the local events. My reportage shouldn't require accreditation.
From this, the key takeaways:
- Myths can only be recited at certain times - evening, fall or winter
- The word: “Alcheringa”
- Levi-Bruhl, abundant citations, other authors and authorities in the field, sadly proving to be a keeper if I want to continue on in this direction, but - no, goddamnit - let it go!
- Myths as related to Christianity (a myth; midnight masses, etc)
- Myth, origins, ritual - myths about language, about writing (the invention of)Myths vs stories or fables
- Ritual, dancing, songs, firelight, deep in a cave magic, storytelling, shamanistic journeys, rites, superstitions, taboos,
- The return to the beginning, the golden age, a place outside of time - “IN the Garden” or “Kronos, devouring his children” - in the days when men were giants and the sins of their fathers had not so diminished them, stooped them like Atlas under the weight of a world they had no hands in making;
- Memory & Forgetfulness, the rivers Lethe & Mnemosyne - to be asleep is akin to death or forgetting, to be ‘conscious” in the spiritual sense is to “awaken” - into another kingdom,
None of this was anything I didn't know, just couched in language perhaps a degree or 2 above your average layman. I enjoyed it, but the information was largely gotten by instinct and just confirmed in his text.
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