Test

Question 1

What is involved in the Function of a myth according to Campbell?

Answer 1

• Allow us to navigate through infancy, childhood, and maturity.
• Give us courage that is required for our personal transformations
• Allow us to move through our lives in a way that is authentic
• Will help find out bliss.

Question 2

What is the structure of a myth?

Answer 2

All hero myths follow same structure: departure, initiation, and return.

Question 3

What is an archetype in a myth?

Answer 3

All hero myths tell this story with the same characters/archetypes that fulfill the same function.

Question 4

“The hero in their ordinary world, and their departure from that world.”

Answer 4

Departure.

Question 5

“The many adventures the hero has on their adventure.”

Answer 5

Initiation.

Question 6

“The return of the hero to their ordinary life/world, transformed by their journey.

Answer 6

Return.

Question 7

Is the hero a character who is defined by bravery or nobility?

Answer 7

No.

Question 8

Is the hero an unlikely character?

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

What is the Call To Adventure?

Answer 9

An unlikely hero is called to depart from their ordinary life and world and enter into a fantastic adventure in another world.

Question 10

What is the Herald?

Answer 10

Announces the journey of the hero and calls the hero to adventure. Can be a person, event, message, etc.

Question 11

What happens during “Refusal of the Call”?

Answer 11

The unlikely hero refuses the call and they cannot be the ‘one’ that is supposed to have this adventure.

Question 12

Who is the Mentor?

Answer 12

Helps and/or trains the hero.
Often older man/woman.
Represent wiser/more God-like qualities in humans.
Will usually equip hero with item, gift, weapon, knowledge to help on their journey.

Question 13

• The point at which the hero actually leaves their world ad embarks on their adventure (entering a new unknown world).
• Is often guarded by a monster, villain, obstacle, the ‘threshold guardian’.
• Followed soon after by the ‘belly of the whale’.
• The final separation between hero’s world and the world of adventure.
• The beginning of hero’s transformation.

Answer 13

“Crossing the First Threshold & The Belly of The Whale”

Question 14

Once hero passes threshold, they encounter a series of trials. They’re aided in confronting these trials by mentor and & allies.

Answer 14

“The Road of Trials and Allies”

Question 15

• The essence of this person is change
• Sometime they can literally change their form (werewolves)
• Other times change is their loyalty, alliances, personality

Answer 15

The Shapeshifter

Question 16

Who is the trickster?

Answer 16

Provides comic relief in a myth. Usually causing trouble, telling jokes, keeping things from getting too serious.

Question 17

Myths arise secondarily to explain ritual, but remain long after the ritual has ceased to be performed.

• interested in function rituals play in society (they communicate social structures)
• because rituals (and religion and myth) are primitive, they don’t point to any supernatural reality beyond themselves. So what they make sacred is the social order.

Answer 17

Robertson Smith.

Question 18

Myth comes first, then ritual.

• religion, rituals, and myths have not been superseded by science and are not primitive.
• meaningful ways of being and knowing that continue and are compatible with science and ‘modern’ worldview.
• rituals allow participants to enact, embody, and make ACTUAL myth. they make mythic time actual time and allows participants to experience the divine energies they communicate.

Answer 18

Eliade