Super Seminar short notes

Group A:

• Different belifs in crime fighting
• Weaknesses: Kryptonite (home) versus more (crazy) enemies
• Mortal versus effectively immortal
• Powers versus perfected humanity
• Homosexual confusion versus heterosexual certainty
• Outfits and secret identity

Group B:

• Hercules compared to Superman
• Thoth--Egyptian god with ibis' head
• Legba--Voodoo loa between life and death, mortal and immortal
• Perseus--Could be himself, unlike the two superheroes
• Ganesh--Hindu god with head of elephant
• John Henry

Group C:

• Great Depression and into World War II
• Too super? How to deal with Superman not ending war? Homefront
• Why not punch Hitler?
• What about other WWII superheroes like Captain America?

Supergroups! (and Latin 1 homework)

For Mythology:

A.What are Morrison’s main points about Superman and Batman?

B.What deities, mythical creatures etcetera does Morrison reference and what can you find about said gods, beasties etcetera?

C.What historical and sociological context does Morrison give for the creation and reception of Superman and Batman?

For Latin 1:
~What does your name mean? Where does it come from? 

Quotes from today's Myth class

• “Myth [is] a dramatic presentation of the moral wisdom of the race.  The myth uses the totality of the senses rather than just the intellect.”—Rollo May

•   “Myth is the secret opening through which inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestations.”—Joseph Campbell
• “Myths are things which never happened but always are.”—Carl Sagan

• “Myth… is the distilled essence of human experience, expressed as metaphoric narrative.”—John Alexander Allen

•   “Myth is whatever a people believe or behave as though they believe.”—Richard Guches

• “Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.”