sublime experience

"Again the performer enters into details, and cries, ‘He killed the crawling snake. It is a sin.’ In a moment the last word is caught up, and all the people cry ‘It is a sin.’ As they shout, the performer lays his hand upon the calf. The sin is transferred to the calf." (The Golden Bough)

I was sparked with the discussion a couple of classes ago about Tristans south park blog. The line at the end "I am happy something can make me feel so sad." No one realizes it but Matt Stone and Trey Parker are geniuses. A great apocalytic episode is when hamsters try taking over the world. Relating to the then recent movie Cloverfield. Anyways, enough with my tangent on south park. Butters quote sparked my mind however, how would it feel not to feel? The points of our lives that are most important to us are the points that we remember through what we were feeling. Your emotions are what you live for. Its like when you ask a person how their vacation was, and they respond with all the things that went wrong. It was a sublime experience but these are all the things that didn't go according to plan. Several years down the road, they don't remember their vacation from scuba diving, they remember that George left his wallet at home and couldn't get on the plain. Then there was a massive snow storm that caused the plain to not take off for three hours. Ask them what they ate.... they won't remember. Its anger, sadness, happiness, etc.. in extreme that make us remember how much we love life.

book V

 "But Diana was not merely a patroness of wild beasts, a mistress of woods and hills, of lonely glades and sounding rivers; conceived as the moon, and especially, it would seem, as the yellow harvest moon, she filled the farmer’s grange with goodly fruits, and heard the prayers of women in travail." (The Golden Bough Chp 7 pg 3)

Minerva, Muses, Pegasus: Minerva goes to the Muses to see a new marvel beneath Pegasus' hoof.

The Pierides: Sisters who challenge the Muses to the art of song.

Ceres & Proserpina: Prosepina is kidnapped by Pluto who received Cupids blow as Ceres searches for her.

Arethusa & Alpheus: Arethusa who was once a Nymph, lusted for by Alpheus is turned to a spring by Diana but still ends up mingling with Alpheus.

The Pierides-again: Upon losing to the Muses these sisters are turned into Magpies.