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Myth 101 – Melissai, nymphs of honey

September 06, 2011
by Opus Archives
animal, Greek myth
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The Melissae or Melissai were the Greek nymphs of honey bees. Priestesses at Aphrodite’s temple in Eryx were called Melissai thus conferring to the goddess the title of Queen Bee. It is said that the Melissai priestesses would enter into visionary trances by eating bee pollen.
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Myth 101: The Duende

September 01, 2011
by Opus Archives
archetypes, monsters, myth, poetry
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From out of the alchemically green-gold valleys and hillsides of Andalusia, Spain, comes the myth and aesthetic experience of the duende. From “duen de casa” or, Master of the House, the duende is reminiscent of the Trickster, said to bring havoc and interruption when the home is upended with intern
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OPUS won a grant!

August 30, 2011
by Opus Archives
Joseph Campbell
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Opus Archives and Research Center Awarded Prestigious Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services Thanks to a grant from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Opus, located on the campuses of Pacifica Graduate Institute, has been able to transfer the original 16 mi
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Jane Hollister Wheelwright Lecture Series

August 30, 2011
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Jane Hollister Wheelwright
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Reminding you to celebrate Jane’s birthday by attending the next in the Jane Hollister Wheelwright Lecture Series on Thursday, September 9th, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM on the Ladera campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute! Come listen in to Lou Ann Wallner’s fascinating lecture, Beyond the
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Voice of the Ancestor: Jane’s Storm

August 29, 2011
by Opus Archives
earth, Jane Hollister Wheelwright, the wild
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“Listening to the storm gave me time to reminisce about our seacoast. The breakers, whatever their intensity, are indicators of the state of things. They also convey messages from distant lands–taking up the pressures from foreign storms thousands of miles away to spend them against our
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Safron Rossi is Curator of Collections at Opus Archives & Research Center and is Associate Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in the Depth Psychology Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program where she teaches courses on mythology and depth psychology. Her writing and scholarly studies focus on archetypal psychology, the western astrological tradition, goddess traditions, and feminist studies. Safron has recently edited a volume for the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell based on his Goddess mythology lectures titled Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, published Fall 2013 by New World Library.

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