Tag Archives: sacrifice

Tuesday 13 December: Inanna’s descent to the underworld

Posted on 8 December 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 13 December 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 For the final meeting of the term Marie-Louise Mederer will usher us, with Inanna, into the underworld. The text: Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer: The Descent … Continue reading →

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Further reading for Abraham

Posted on 7 December 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Elegy under the knife (David Sherman, ‘Elegy under the Knife: Geoffrey Hill and the Ethics of Sacrifice’, Twentieth-Century Literature 54.2, Summer 2008)

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Tuesday 6 December: Sacrifice in the Hindu Tradition

Posted on 1 December 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 6 December 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Kopal Gautam will introduce this week’s topic with an extract from The Rig Veda: Extracts from The Rig Veda (10.130 The Creation of the Sacrifice; 10.190 Cosmic … Continue reading →

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Tuesday 29 November: Child Sacrifice and Flaubert’s Salammbo

Posted on 25 November 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 29 November 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 The texts: Salammbo Chapter XIII (extract) [link expired] Key to mythic references in Flaubert’s Salammbô [collection of online resources]

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Tuesday 22 November: Sacrifice in Islam

Posted on 21 November 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 22 November 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Abdul Atteh will host our continuing discussion of Abraham’s sacrifice, with reference to some verses from the Quran: Abraham (brief extracts from Marmaduke Pickthall’s 1930 translation, The … Continue reading →

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Tuesday 15 November: Isaac versus Iphigeneia

Posted on 11 November 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 15 November 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Two texts: Genesis 22.1-19 (Authorized King James Version) Aeschylus, Agamemnon 104-257, trans. MacNeice (Faber, 1936) [link expired] … and end on a song:

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Tuesday 8 November: Ritual Self-Sacrifice of the Maya Gods

Posted on 4 November 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 8 November 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Suzanne Nolan will take us through the Ritual Self-Sacrifice of the Maya Gods. Suzanne has provided the following text: Maya Self-Sacrifice Texts from: Yaxchilán Hieroglyphic Stairway Two, … Continue reading →

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Friedrich Hölderlin: Bread and Wine

Posted on 3 November 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Following this week’s discussion:— Bread & Wine (trans. Michael Hamburger, parallel text, Anvil Press; pdf link expired). Courtesy of languagescraps.blogspot.com Bread and Wine (trans. Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover). Scroll down Hölderlin’s Atheisms (essay by Daniel Whistler)

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Tuesday 1 November: Eucharist

Posted on 27 October 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 1 November 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Dr Cate Gunn will lead a discussion on the sacrificial aspects of the Eucharist. The text is part of the Canon of the Mass, taken from the … Continue reading →

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Tuesday 25 October: Making Sacred

Posted on 22 October 2011 by ὑποκείμενον

Myth Reading Group Tuesday 25 October 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 Dr Leon Burnett, Director of the Centre for Myth Studies, will introduce our theme of sacrifice with a few words on bulls … and the dreadful things … Continue reading →

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