Divine Fury: Myth as Symbol

Описание: Mythology is the interaction of symbols in narrative form; this video essay analyses this thesis through examples of Odin, Krishna, and Yggdrasil -- the World Tree.

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This essay draws on several sources: the videos of Dr. Jackson Crawford, Snorri Sturluson's "Prose Edda", Carl Jung's essay "Wotan" on the psychological aspects of Odin and his fury, Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil" (briefly), as well as the Bhagavad Gita. All of this serves one single purpose (if a purpose can even be assigned to this rather wandering essay): to shift the reader's perception of mythology away from viewing it as literary folktales--or stories--and instead think of myth as a barrage of symbols; symbols, here, meaning a condensed image of what is otherwise an unconscious, psychic force.

00:00 - Myth as Symbol
03:56 - The Death of Myth
10:55 - The "Problem" of Snorri
15:55 - Yggdrasil
20:00 - Odin's Fury
24:50 - Krishna
30:40 - Concluding Remarks

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