Mythology Blog Fall 2019

The Wendigo For my last assignment, I chose to watch the last set of crash course videos on the list. I really enjoyed watching these videos throughout the semester and wanted to finish it off with them. This set of videos was really neat. The guy went kinda philosophical when he started talking about what it means to be a monster. I was really shook with the Wendigo story. I had heard of them before but didn't know much about them. Learning how they come to existence from humans was pretty creepy and I think it was the best example at representing how monsters are like just humans personified as evil creatures based on their deeds or nature. I also really enjoyed the dragon video. I like how it talked about the differences between eastern and western cultures in regards to how they view dragons. I had gotten a sense for the differences growing up and watching cartoons. All the Asian based cartoons like Dragon Ball Z and Avatar the Last Airbender (if you consider it Asian-b

Satan, frozen in Hell For today I continued reading Dante's Inferno. I continued to struggle to understand parts of what I was reading so I went online to search for some explanation videos. After that, I tried reading it and it made more sense but it's still a strange book. I like the idea of how he travels down the different levels and matches the punishments to the sins. In one of the videos, I saw they talked about how Dante was Italian and therefore really hated the greeks and that's why there are so many greek people in Hell and I thought that was funny. How Dante was so petty he wrote a book where he punished them lol. Anyways, it was really cool to see how Dante mixed religion with mythology. I wasn't expecting to see all the mythological creatures in this book but it worked out really well. The order of Hell is interesting, as well as how Dante classified sins from least to most sinful. I have no idea what I'm going to write about for my story this

Map of Dante’s Inferno I had a hard time understanding today’s reading. I have never read it before and I know it’s a really popular book so I decided to try it. I can follow along most of what is being said, but there were a lot of parts where Virgil is explaining stuff to Dante that I didn’t get. I think it’s really cool how they go from level to level and see all the different people that have been condemned to Hell. I wasn’t expecting to see the philosophers and poets there but it makes sense why they’re there. Today’s reading: Dante's Divine Comedy , translated by Tony Kline (2002).

Tlaloc In this week's videos, they talked about a lot of different flood myths from all over the world. I had heard they flood myth from the Bible, but all the other ones were new to me. I thought they were really interesting. I could see a lot of similarities between all of them which is wild especially when they come from different continents. I really like the American ones about the Aztec, Inca, and Maya. Even though I did a lot of research on Aztec mythology I had not read the one about the flood. Maybe if I had I could have used it in my storybook. Link to videos:  http://mythfolklore.blogspot.com/2017/12/crash-course-myth-flood-stories.html