Dont know if you done Gilgamesh, but checkout feminist critiques of the monomyth of the hero's journey which in written down myth stems from the Babylonian Enuma Elish
Terrified she screamed for her mother, And screamed to her friends. But louder And again and again to her mother. She ripped her from from her throat downwards- So all her cherished flowers scattered in a shower. Then in her childishness She screamed for her flowers as they fell, While her ravisher leaper with her Into his chariot, shouting to the horses (skip two lines because they don't fit) And they were off. They were gone- Leaving the ripped turf and the shocked faces.
I guess it wasn't physical, though it does use the word ravisher, but that fits with the different definition. I thought it was weird, i just assumed it was our definition and the actual 'rape' was left out as either obscene or left to the imagination of implied. Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know that.
It's funny, I was obsessed with Greek (and in turn Roman) mythology, in middle school, which let me say, I was not one of the "cool kids," and I thought, as many do, that for any situation or idea there is a parallel in the Greek mythology.
I guess you just proved that.
Kind of like the way Daniel Quinn parallels stories from the bible with the onset of totalitarian agriculture.
I think that he doesn't just parallel or reinterpret them but shows the actual meaning of them. When I read the Cain and Abel part for the first time I gasped outloud at the revelation. I think they were actually written with that intent, as an expression of the ideas of the culture, just as this was.
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EthanRosenthal 2 years ago
the rape of Kore is patriarchal subversion similar to Genesis Garden of Eden myth and is their toxic myth against the Goddess.
Dig...they RAPE her, and then BLAME HER, and nature, when she naturally gets mad!!
zezt 2 years ago
...when they continually rape and murder her.
Dont know if you done Gilgamesh, but checkout feminist critiques of the monomyth of the hero's journey which in written down myth stems from the Babylonian Enuma Elish
zezt 2 years ago
themajikat 3 years ago
I guess it wasn't physical, though it does use the word ravisher, but that fits with the different definition. I thought it was weird, i just assumed it was our definition and the actual 'rape' was left out as either obscene or left to the imagination of implied. Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know that.
themajikat 3 years ago
Hi,
so...I am wondering when you say 'rape' do u mean that hades kidnapped persephone, since during those times rape meant to be abducted?
Or is the rape physical?
NothingMoreBlack 3 years ago
It's funny, I was obsessed with Greek (and in turn Roman) mythology, in middle school, which let me say, I was not one of the "cool kids," and I thought, as many do, that for any situation or idea there is a parallel in the Greek mythology.
I guess you just proved that.
Kind of like the way Daniel Quinn parallels stories from the bible with the onset of totalitarian agriculture.
ghostwriter511 3 years ago
I think I might do a series on mythology.
I think that he doesn't just parallel or reinterpret them but shows the actual meaning of them. When I read the Cain and Abel part for the first time I gasped outloud at the revelation. I think they were actually written with that intent, as an expression of the ideas of the culture, just as this was.
themajikat 3 years ago