Today in History 07.06.06

"Jan Hus burned at the stake "

"1415: Czech religious reformer Jan Hus, whose criticisms of the church anticipated the Reformation by more than a century, was convicted of heresy at the Council of Constance and, on this day in 1415, was burned at the stake.

Jan Husborn c. 1370, Husinec, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic]died July 6, 1415, Konstanz [Germany]

Hus also spelled Huss the most important 15th-century Czech religious Reformer, whose work was transitional between the medieval and the Reformation periods and anticipated the Lutheran Reformation by a full century. He was embroiled in the bitter controversy of the Western Schism (1378–1417) for his entire career, and he was convicted of heresy at the Council of Constance and burned at the stake."

Source:
"Hus, Jan." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. 6 July 2006
[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041616].

Gestalt (Entity)

For these metaphysical purposes, a gestalt (emergent property) is an entity (spirit or agent), physical, biological, psychological, symbolic being, configuration, and/or pattern composed of other “lesser” beings or elementals (subcomponents) which make up the sum of their whole and cannot be extrapolated or formulated from as basic summation of its parts.

Kheper

"Kheper-i kheperu kheper-kuie [kheper-kuy] em kheperu

em kheperi kheper em sep tepi."

Today in History 07.02.06

"Revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad"

"1839: On this day in 1839, a slave rebellion occurred on the ship Amistad, and the subsequent acquittal of the mutineers, who were deemed to be kidnap victims rather than merchandise, was a victory for American abolitionism."

For more information about the Amistad mutiny, visit the resource below.

Source:

www.britannica.com/eb/article-9000209?tocId=9000209&ref=OTDTDIH

The Nature of Myth and Mythology

The nature of myth and mythology is closely related to social accord, harmony with the Universe, and archetypes of any culture from a societal and psychological perspective. In general, an archetype is an idealized construct or model of a person, object, or concept compared with a psychological archetype being a model of a person, personality (and sometimes a set of collective personalities), or behavior (and sometimes a set of collective behaviors).

Based on Jungian psychology, there are four specific archetypes (Jungian Archetypes):

The Self
The Shadow
The Anima
The Animus

There are other Jungian archetypes, images, and characters which will be explored later. For now, the focus will concern the above four psychic structures as they parallel to myth and mythology. Let us begin our journey with some definitions.

To be continued . . .