this whole thing about being is imagining and creating and being will help with my myth essay

B8 ANCIENT TIME IS ALIVE

• It is neither cyclical nor linear
• example seen in Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions
• the elements of a date represented by living entities interact with each other

B8 2 CALENDARIC CONSTRUCTS POST COLONIAL page 116

1. the Aztec 52 year century
2. maya k'atun cycle

• apporximation fo the solar year (maya = ja'ab

B8:

• CALENDRIC SYSTEM IS a key feature of meso culture
• says a lot about religion and cosmology

B6: MYTH IS HALF WAY BETWEEN FACT AND FICTION

• 3 distinct terms for the concept of a narrative

1. to tell a story
2. to tell a lie
3. to mythologize

• stories are exaggerated or lose some truth to them as they get passed along
• myth is the collective dream world or collective subconscious
• the stories that we are told and accept as truth
• the halfway point of science and religion, most elaborate of all fictions

B6: ARE WE HEALING?

• people rediscovering gender

  "lives of communities into their own hands, into their own healing hands"

• science, religion has not been able to explain "the life force of human origins"

• Mythology: language that had to be invented to explain " the dream world( where we exists)

B6: POWERFUL IMAGE OF 1482

• god as a woman meets violence from god man

B6: ABORIGINAL MYTHOLOGY

• process of procreation dependent on feminine force of energy
• the Trickster: half human and half god
• the difference: concepts or divination does not translate to English

1. no concept of gender, all are she/he

• god is male and female simultaneously, we are all he/she

1. god is not perfect

• the concept of god in all and god in everything
• pantheism: all things have divinity because it has god

1. not time

• existence in the universe i merely one endless circle of birth and life and death and a cycle

1. paradise?

B6: GREEK MYTHOLOGY

• polytheistic
• non-perfect gods, hyper sexual lol
• space is more important than time
• time is expansive curve,

B6: CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY

• one straight timeline
• male only god, monotheistic
• woman not necessary
• humans here to exploit nature
• lmao basically calls out all the bullshit

B6: THREE TYPE OF MYTHOLOGY

1. Christian mythology
2. Greek mythology
3. North American mythology

B6: MYTHOLOGY DEFINES, MAPS OUT THE COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS, THE DREAM WORLD OF OUR PEOPLE, THE SPIRIT, SPRITUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM

• life would have no meaning
• myth is the "driving force that decides whether nature or our bodies..."
• kind of relate to "ku"
• its can be good or bad and it is everything

B6: WHAT IS MYTHOLOGY?

• tells the story fo the spiritual movements across the landscape
• outlines and delineates the spiritual nervous system - wondrous, mystical magical complexity
• myth = narrative
• logos = word or discourse
• the art of story telling, narrative of humans, animals, and god(s)
• antithesis of theology

What is mythology?

• roots, consciousness of people
• tool to articulate life, where origins lie
• electrical impulse that sparks life into people
• we would be dead( empty, corpses), no point

"lost so many children to death and residential schoo in The Pas" ( 92).

• reminds me of the unmarked graves found in Canada. An indigenous nation in Canada says it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan. It comes weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a similar residential school in British Columbia.
• What are residential schools?
• Between 1863 and 1998, more than 150,000 indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in these schools throughout Canada.
• The children were often not allowed to speak their language or to practice their culture, and many were mistreated and abused.

Defintions: Cree: The Cree are a North American Indigenous people. They live primarily in Canada, where they form one of that country's largest First Nations.

B3: Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples Chapter 1: Imperialism, History, Writing and Theory

• written: 1999
• page 39 to 51

B2: Definitions

• geological strata: In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that was formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
• Steven J Gould: he theory of punctuated equilibrium, a view of evolution by which species undergo long periods of stasis followed by rapid changes over relatively short periods instead of continually accumulating slow changes over millions of years.
• geomythology: the study of etiological oral traditions created by pre-scientific cultures to explain—in poetic metaphor and mythological imagery—geological phenomena such as volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, ...

B2 Main Concept: Native American knowledge only given validity when white scientists make same observations

• asks for a dialogue between the western and tribal people
• they know more

1. corrective measures to eliminate scientific misconceptions about indians, culture and past
2. need to find a way in which traditions will be taken more seriously as valid bodies of knowledge

Struggle: who is the authority, racism, Indian knowledge is not due to luck

B2 Storytelling and Language : Storytelling is a form of art

• languages have precise words to describe human emotion, land, human intensity,
• western languages cannot duplicate or translate

B2: Difference: Relativity

• it is known but different
• knowledge is only valid and valuable when white scientists document and articulate it
• story of bear use a plant as medicine that taught the Navajos how to use the plant

B2: Difference: The world we live in is Alive

• look at events to determine the spiritual activity supporting or undergirding them
• human have to participate in events
• western methods are mechanical
• indians ask the spirits for knowledge
• all things are connected and related,
• knowledge in terms of religious rituals, and also guidance to structure them in their behaviour,
• listen to their environment to fish, hunt and protect

B2: Difference: Authority in Science

• storytellers gain nothing form having knowledge
• does not gain personal interest
• a respected storyteller was not a status dependent upon economic or military powers
• some cannot praise their own accomplishments

B2 Scientific Community: Elders as Scientists

• specialized jobs to remember certain knowledge
• Vision Quests( puberty ceremonies) when young people sought to help and seek guidance from nature
• info from young people shared with spritiual leaders
• knowledge is personal for non-western people versus impersonal for western scientist
• only those people given the knowledge by other entities can use it properly

B2 Oral Tradition Practices

• recited during winter time, regular part of the life
• religious ceremonies involved reciting stories
• accumulated tribe wisdom was shared to all
• said that special knowledge is revealed in visions or dreams, "personal knowledge""need-to-know" basis?

B2 Oral Tradition is the the equivalent to science

• **oral tradition is "loosely held collection fo anecdotal material that explains the nature of the physical world as people have experience it and the important events of their historical journey" (33)
• "American indian traditions deal with commonsense ordinary topic such as plants, animals, weather, and past events that are not particularly of a religious nature"
• made a point of Westerners appropiating traditions ex: spiritually, burning sage, stones, meditation/trances,
• validity based on tribe's spiritual forces
• oral tradition is serious, knowledge, true

B2 Problem with bringing non-western tradition within the scope of science

1. subject to extra scrutiny:

• future discredits their validity in culture

1. subject to racism in academia:

• white scientist looking form the outside in studying other cultures, they need to bring people from the culture

1. information become valid when offered by a white scholar

   "color of the skin guarantees scientific reason"

• they have to submit to the establish authority

B2 Science is folkflore

• i don't agree with this statement
• especially because science is being attacked everyday through the debate of climate change

• Science IS a true but sometimes the way it communicated to the public is flawed. Example the CDC with so many changes, people lose trust in the way it's communicated

  "immense knowledge and factual proof of many scientific theories does not extist"(30).

• reminds me of the little high school argument between a biology teacher and a christian girl

• this is very true, bering straight and big bang theory taught as fact when they are theory

B2 Science critique in the paper

• scientific method seen as the be all end all
• scientists can be frauds
• science is hierarchical - "poor ignorant laypeople" versus the elite scientists
• scientists are ignorant fo the developments outside their field"

B2 - Western Darwinian evolution discredited all other beliefs

"all accounts of a creation ...are superstitions devised by ignorant peoples to explain the processes fo the world"

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B2: Native American and the myth of scientific fact,Chapter 2: Science and The Oral Tradition starts page 34

• written 1995 Summary: every society maintinas its sense of idenity with a set of stories which explain creation, linked events after creation and experiences that "serve as precedents for determining present and future actions." Stories have moral teaching , traditions, spritual powers, invisible forces, memorable events in history.

Concept: Pity on those who do not understand (page14) - Finally saying his theory?

• the motivation is to get the true meaning of the bible (page19)
• don't turn away ideas but inspect them and use the bible to investigate them

  "no proposition can be contrary to the faith unless it has first been proven to be false" (19)

• page 20

Theology

• best of the sciences( page12)

  "supernatural things are a matter of faith"(12)

The Bible as truth

• European belief must conform to Christian belief and has to "ask for permission" and never disrespect the Church
• galileo says "The bible cannot err", "the holy Bible can never speak untruth", but "anyone can take an erroneous position"
• temerity : excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.
• contumatious: stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority.
• page 9: 1st column, man's reason is flawed or his interpretation of the Bible is wrong; human's inability to comprehend; "two truths cannot contradict one another"

• page 11: says a lot about people who do now know the true meaning of the bible,

  "not having penetrated the true sense of Scripture"

• page 11: lazy people don't understand

  "distorting passages and twisting the Bible to their individual and contradictory whims"

Seek knowledge from their diety(God)

• seek guidance from the Holy Ghost(page 11)

(page 12 B1) new discoveries does not contradict the bible

• old testatment: The first five books – Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, book of Numbers and Deuteronomy
• The New Testament focuses more on the life and teachings of Jesus and the Christian church.
• The Old Testament explains the history of the creation of the World, the exodus of Israelites, and the Ten Commandments given to Moses by God

(page 12 B1) - in order to establish a belief there has to be previous knowledgeHe's not alone, others have drawn the same conclusions and/ or agree**

• Nicholas Copernicus was the first to say said theory
• devoted Catholic man
• the church has a history of studying the the sky and seeking more information
• Copernicus' discovery was accepted but now it is rejected
• zeal: great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective.

(page 7,8) - Christianity and Nature

• "God is known first through Nature, and then again by his doctrine; by Nature in his works and by doctrin in his revealed word"
• "Nature is inexorable and immutable"
• god would not be able to give us science or nature without having to understand it"
• I guess this also contradicts the history of how the bibile has been used by humans to exploit the land and resources in the name of god , "divine right" used for conquest', "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’

(page 9) Science for the purpose of highest goal (salvation)

• trying to justify his discovery in the eyes of the church
• in the name of salvation
• clergy says"

  "the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes"

• this is very different from Maya:
• Question what is the purpose of life for the Maya? *the same? because you live a life to be with the gods or please the gods

B1. Big Picture: The "Letter to The Grand Duchess Christina" is

• essay written in 1615 by Galileo Galilei.
• purpose: to accommodate Copernicanism with the doctrines of the Catholic Church.
  • argued that the Copernican theory was physical reality. * Dominican friar Niccolò Lorini, to complain to the Inquisition, which tried and eventually condemned Galileo of suspicion of heresy.
• Def: Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets orbiting around it in circular paths, modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds
• Galileo against Ptolemy

(page 12 B1) - Writing to Grand Dutchess mother about his injustice

imputations: accusation

abhorrent: disgust, loathe, repugnant

calumnies: the making of false and defamatory statements about someone in order to damage their reputation; slander.

(page 12 B1):

• those that know their science were the ones to accept the truth
• others in plain disbelief were hard to convince
• others have bruised egos and cannot deny their theories
• others are silent
• others clearly contradict Galileo

(page 11, B1)

• intro blaming other scientists and scholars for not accepting or inquiring about Galileo's new ideas
• people not listening to reason

morality: is this a value or ethical framework???

morality is relative??? what is the connnection between morality physchollogy and ethics ??

**QUestions:

• would we be in this same situation if we saw how our food is killed?
• so is it morally justified to consume meat if it were humanely raised? humanely killed? can a kill be humane?
• leather is a buy product of the meat industry? is that morally right or morally wrong?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN Doctrine of Double effect: According to the principle of double effect, sometimes it is permissible to cause a harm as a side effect (or “double effect”) of bringing about a good result even though it would not be permissible to cause such a harm as a means to bringing about the same good end

• ethics or ideals of a society
• American in general is more indivualistic and i have a right to what i eat blah blah blah to they don't see thier indivual decision as a worthy action for themselves or the greater salvation of animals

you clearly know how many dogs you can save with every chocolate mouse you eat

• pleasure
• done in secret
• no reason to be doing that
• meat eaters dont' do for it to taste better, we just do it becuase we like to beat animals ...
• he coulve injected stress hormones...
• the first arguments are just reframing the situation

• human pleasure is above a living thing?

he got me there

a person who is not a native Hawaiian, especially a white person.it may mean any foreigner or anything else introduced to the Hawaiian islands of foreign origin, though it is most commonly applied to people of European ancestry

a secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process.

This is very important to understand institutional racism. Example police officer isn't racist but the systemhe works for is racist.

I never understood the definition of race

https://openbooks.library.umass.edu/introwgss/chapter/social-constructionism/

Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge that holds that characteristics typically thought to be immutable and solely biological—such as gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality—are products of human definition and interpretation shaped by cultural and historical contexts (Subramaniam 2010). As such, social constructionism highlights the ways in which cultural categories—like “men,” “women,” “black,” “white”—are concepts created, changed, and reproduced through historical processes within institutions and culture.

describes gender as binary

There are fundamentally different struggles that woman face.

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3 regions: South, Southwest, Hawaii

• America relied on immigrant and racialize labor
• labor systems negatively affected people
• relations between white and non-white groups

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We see this today with immigrants receiving unfair labor practices. I like that it is not necessarily violent practices(shouting, sweatshops), covert practices that affect the livelihood and standard of living.

something about discrimination within society, a larger society of oppression