Myth, Chaos, and Certainty

Myth, Chaos, and Certainty
Author: Rosolino Buccheri
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 100017297X

This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up of human beings to the knowledge of nature; an analysis that demonstrates any theoretical/practical impossibility to formulate absolute certainties, since it depicts a situation in which man finds himself hovering between a rational way of living and the contradictory modus operandi of mythos. All that, within a society where the powerful communication and transportation technologies give rise to conflicts and fragmentations, where anyone’s will to self-distinguishing is enhanced by highlighting any small difference and obscuring any large similarity. The main difference between this book and existing ones stems from its interdisciplinary nature, particularly because it establishes a close connection between three, apparently so different disciplines—cosmology, life sciences, and sociology—compared with respect to their increasing complexity laws, giving rise to always more chaotic configurations.

The Hero and the Sea

The Hero and the Sea
Author: Donald H. Mills
Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0865165084

Ancient myths about watery chaos uniquely transcend time and culture to speak to the universal human condition as expression to the hopes, aspirations and fears that have defined--for ancient thinkers as well as modern scientists--what it means to be human in a chaotic world. "The Hero and the Sea examines the mythological pattern of heroic battles with watery chaos in the "Gilgamesh Epic, the "Iliad, the "Odyssey, and the Old Testament, in the light of anthropology, comparative religion, literature, mythology, psychology, and modern chaos theory; how mythic patterns of heroic battle with chaotic adversaries respond to the cultural needs, religious concerns, and worldview of their audience. The last chapter explores points of contact between the ancient mythic patterns and the discoveries of modern scholars engaged in the theoretical study of chaos and chaotics.

Mythic Imagination Today

Mythic Imagination Today
Author: Terry Marks-Tarlow
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004448438

Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This monograph brings alive our collective need for story as a guide to the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life.

In the Beginning Was Chaos

In the Beginning Was Chaos
Author: Sarah L. Maguire
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-09-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781720109792

From the noble Titan Prometheus who stole fire from Mount Olympus to the bloody tale of how Kronos castrated his own father Ouranos to avenge his mother Gaia, these visceral, often dark and powerful stories about the creation of the world are also larger than life projections of human passions, the exercise of power in a violent and hierarchical world and a reflection on the bitter-sweet human condition. With their remote origins in Mesopotamia and the ancient civilisations of the Near East, these myths come down to us primarily from the early Greek poet and farmer Hesiod in his two epic poems; the Theogony and the Works and Days. Drawing on Hesiod's account as well as ancient authors such as Ovid, Aeschylus and Apollodorus of Alexandria, In the Beginning was Chaos recounts the stories of the ancient Greeks about how the world began, the creation of humanity and their troubled relationship with the Gods. It includes the war between the Olympians and the Titans, Prometheus and his struggle with Zeus, as well as detailed descriptions of the twelve Olympian gods and goddesses and an account of the Underworld. It also includes the story Deucalion and Pyrrha and the great flood with its striking parallels to the Biblical account of the flood.

Chaos and Beyond

Chaos and Beyond
Author: A. Galdós-Bethencourt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 169
Release: 1999
Genre: Greece
ISBN: 9780754105602

Familiar Mysteries

Familiar Mysteries
Author: Shirley Park Lowry
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1982
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780195029253

This enthralling study of myths examines what exactly they are and why they are so important, even in modern life. The author shows what they share in common with folk tales, dreams, and fantasies; how we developed a symbolic language, defining such symbols as blood, mik, sunlight, and monsters; how heroes from Moses and Jesus to Charlemagne and Superman are related; and how myths reconcile us to life's limitations. It is an unforgettable study of the foundations of human consciousness.

The Ignorance of Certainty

The Ignorance of Certainty
Author: Ashley Montagu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1970
Genre: Folklore
ISBN:

Wry wit and down-to-earth commonsense as the authors supply grains of truth in ideas we ordinarily dismiss.

Hesiod

Hesiod
Author: Hesiod
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801879841

For this eagerly anticipated revised edition, Athanassakis has provided an expanded introduction on Hesiod and his work, subtly amended his faithful translations, significantly augmented the notes and index, and updated the bibliography. --Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Theogony of Hesiod

The Theogony of Hesiod
Author: Hesiod
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2017-05-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546648369

The Theogony Of Hesiod is a poem describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed circa 700 BC. Although it is often used as a sourcebook for Greek mythology, the Theogony is both more and less than that. Hesiod's Theogony is a large-scale synthesis of a vast variety of local Greek traditions concerning the gods, organized as a narrative that tells how they came to be and how they established permanent control over the Cosmos. It is the first Greek mythical cosmogony. The initial state of the universe is chaos, a dark indefinite void considered a divine primordial condition from which everything else appeared. Theogonies are a part of Greek mythology which embodies the desire to articulate reality as a whole; this universalizing impulse was fundamental for the first later projects of speculative theorizing.