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My Video Interview on the Mythology of Wine Just Posted
Recently Wes Hagen, a prominent Santa Barbara County winemaker and wine raconteur, interviewed me on his weekly video broadcast, The Punchdown. We discussed the mythology of wine, the subject of my new book, The Mythology of Wine, while sipping each … Continue reading
The Mythology of Wine VII: The Wine Miracles of Dionysus and Jesus Compared
We have all heard about how Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana, Galilee. Jesus, his mother Mary, and his disciples are at a wedding feast when the wine runs out. Mary informs Jesus of this, implying … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Mythology, Wine Mythology
Tagged Cana, Dionysus, Ephesus, Gospel of John, Jesus, miracles, Scythopolis
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Christ’s Resurrection and our Redemption: A Mytho-Psychological View of Easter
In the last of my Easter posts from last year about the mythological aspects of the holiday, I focused on the meaning of Christ’s resurrection in mytho-psychological terms and what this means for our own spirituality, concluding that our resurrection … Continue reading
Christmas Mythology IV: Matthew’s Christmas Story
Matthew 2’s Christmas story, no part of which is found elsewhere in the New Testament, contains some of our most dramatic and enduring Christmas images: the magi following a moving star to visit and venerate the young child and future king … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Balaam, birth of the hero, Christ, Christmas, flight to Egypt, Ignatius of Antioch, Jesus, Magi, massacre of the innocents, Matthew, star of the east, Tiridates
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Christmas Mythology III: Jesus and the “Birth of the Hero” Mythological Motif
Myths and legends feature countless hero figures, and even real history features many people whose lives have been mythologized, being elevated into larger-than-life figures. Scholars have long recognized that Jesus as portrayed in the New Testament and its apocrypha is … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged apocalypticism, birth of the hero, Christ, hero cycle, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, Lord Raglan, Otto Rank
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Christmas Mythology II: What is History and What is Myth in the Nativity Stories?
This post is the first of several leading up to this Christmas dealing with the mythology lurking behind our Christmas stories, rituals, and holiday celebrations, starting with the stories of Jesus’s birth and leading up to our modern day. It … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Bethlehem, Christ, Christmas, flight to Egypt, Herod, infancy narrative, Jesus, Joseph, Luke, Mary, massacre of the innocents, Matthew, Messiah, Nativity, Nazareth
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The Mythology of Easter III: The Mythical Meaning of the Resurrection
In yesterday’s post I first concluded that the story of Christ’s resurrection would not have originated by transferring the earlier motif of dying and rising gods to form the epilogue to Christ’s death, but in the end concluded that they, … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Holidays, Mythology
Tagged Carl Jung, Christ, Dioscuri, Dundes, Easter, Edinger, Emperor's cult, Gospel of Peter, higher self, holidays, introversion, Jesus, Joseph Campbell, meditation, Mithras, mysteries, mythology, Osiris, Parzival, psychic energy, Resurrection, Resurrection of Christ, self, St. Paul, wasteland, Wolfram
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