Black Tie Affair's

Final Exam

December 15th, 8 pm-9:50. Same class room as usual.

The exam should only take about 30-45 minutes.

Papers are due this Thursday

Presentations no longer than 5 minutes.

Check blogs for paper topics as most people are on the right track.  Simple topic of myth and Magus is just a set up, go deeper.  Minimum of three pages long, beginning middle end, must hold attention. Cite sources!!!  Paper must also have a theme, which should be supported with actual quotes from the text, do not overgeneralize. God is in the details, do not BORE your audience!

Thursday:

1. Christine

2 Stefanie GRRRR bad luck!

3.Lucia

4.Mathew

Group 5 had a fantastic movie! I have nothing but praise for their amazing performance.  For anyone who missed their movie, they did the story of Demeter and Persephone.   They titled their masterpiece Myth and Marriage. They interwove many different myths within the main myth and story.  They also provided popcorn for audience enjoyment.

Following the wedding was a funeral.

Group 6
This group did a great play showing the many different types of Funerals.  The class attended the death of Kyle Miller, with flowers, candles, prayer cards.  For the Irish funeral, we were given the alcohol(apple juice).  The body stays with the family and a party is thrown all night.  Whiskey is put at the mans feet, because of the man who climbed the ladder and fell and once they splashed whiskey on his face he revived.
The viking funeral-boat brought onto land, the mans harem of women get to choose to die, and then are raped, lifted up through a doorway, and then killed and put with the man.  All of his treasures are there as well.  The boat is burned on land.
The pirates sink their men to the bottom of the sea.  The cowboys are buried into a cedar and poetry is present.  In heaven they ride the perfect horse who does not buck, or kick.  A lot of the burial terms we currently have come from cowboys. Their saddle, hats, and stones were usually placed on top of the grave.  Chinese burials include bowing three times to the dead, and burning incense and money so that they may pay their way out of hell.  Egyptian funerals were the last to be covered.  The bodies are taken apart, and a blessing is said so that they may come back to life.  We know much about Egyptian death because of all the things they wrote down about it.

What different cultures were represented in the funerary rights of group 6.
Sati-Indian funeral service. the wife jumped into the grave, and twirled her finger while they placed dirt on her until her finger stopped in death.