9/22/11

"For all the variegated multiplicity of its forms, the practice of sacrifice can be reduced to just two gestures: expulsion (purification) and assimilation (communion). These two gestures have only one element in common: destruction. In each case the victim is killed or devoured, or abandoned to a certain death." (Calasso 292)

Bozeman, is actually a mythological place! It has Oz in it, from the Wizard of Oz.

Axis mundi - center of the world.
One way or another we have lost contact with Gods
Man's relationship had gone through two regimes and currently in the third regime(You can find this at the bottom of pg. 52 and first sentence of pg. 53)
1)Convivality - or friendly relationships
2) Rape
3) Indifference - "Gods have already withdrawn, and, hence, if they are indifferent in our regard, we can be indifferent as to their existence or otherwise."
Rape addressed! Rape - sudden, obsessive invasion that plucks away the flower of thought.
Beginning- nostalgia about beginning. Example, Old people talking about old times and how they were better. Nostalgia comes from nostos, meaning separation.
Polytropos- "men of many turns"
Creation of the world according to Greeks:
1) Has to do with creative murder
2) Eros - divine force