Extra Credit Reading: Crash Course Myth Gods and Goddesses

Extra Credit Reading: Crash Course Myth Gods and Goddesses

(Baldur, from the Crash Course video The Dying God)

The first video, Great Goddesses, was quite interesting. Like in some past videos, famous psychologist Carl Jung was mentioned again. As a psychology student, I have mixed feelings about Jung, but at least Freud was not mentioned again. I thought it was interesting that primitive societies were more matriarchy focused than patriarchy.  The video about the Fire and Buffalo Goddesses immediately made me think about the movie Moana since it started by talking about the goddesses that controlled lava and other things. I had also not previously heard about the white buffalo calf woman before this video, so I found that to be interesting. The Archetypes and Male Divinities video was probably the one that presented the least new ideas to me, since the archetypes associated with male gods are quite common and obvious in my opinion. I thought The Dying God video was cool since that kind of god goes against what is typically thought of gods. Gods are usually immortal, as the video says. I think the idea of the dying god is interesting since it is different from the more popular idea of gods and goddesses. 

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