Artist as True Seer – Joseph Campbell
November 11, 2010
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“The artist is the true seer and prophet of his [sic] century, the justifier of life and as such, of course, a revolutionary far more fundamental in his penetration of the social mask of his day than any fanatic idealist spilling blood over the pavement in the name simply of ano
Continue Reading →Myth 101: Artemis the Hanged One
November 10, 2010
Artemis the Hanged One is one of the virgin Goddesses fertility epitaph’s. The image of a hanged figure and fertility doesn’t seem to work quite right at first and so we consult Robert Graves who writes that dolls were hung from fruit trees to ensure good crops, a practice
Continue Reading →Marion Woodman on ritual
November 04, 2010
“We have lost our containers; chaos threatens. Without rituals to make a firm demarcation between the profane and sacred, between what is us and what is not us, we tend to identify with archetypal patterns of being – hero, Father, Mother, etc. We forget that we are individ
Continue Reading →Listening Deeply to Planet Earth
November 02, 2010
OPUS awarded 13 New Mythos Grants in the winter of 2009 and all year we have been gifted in return with learning of new gems hidden in the manuscript and image collections. One of the inspirations for the grant came form Joe Campbell, of course. In the famous “Power of Myth̶
Continue Reading →Call for Papers – Myth in Contemporary World Literature
October 28, 2010
We love sharing this kind of opportunity – a CFP for a conference on myth in contemporary literature…and I agree with Graciela, it is definitely an under-represented theme in academia. *** From: Graciela M. Báez, New York University: Dear Friends and Colleagues, The upcomi
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