The Princess’s Personal Agenda in “Knapsack, Hat & Horn”

I view this as a cautionary tale: be respectful of someone with great power.  This story also resembles the Von Schönwerth story “The Scorned Princess,” and I talk about that story.  

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s ”The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn”)

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Ian and I discuss the Greek-Roman god Dionysus-Bacchus.  He reads an Orphic poem and then I gloss various stories put together into a narrative in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology.  This is a fascinating discussion of a god with opposing features: of gentleness, compassion, and persuasion, but also of wild revelry, frenzy, and terrible violence.  We discuss this divinity of the vine, of natural vitality cultivated on a structure, and of rebirth after dissolution, whose product leads to new “creativity” and destruction.  He is a god of death and rebirth, and hence, of transformation, and we talk about his spirit’s contribution to the transformation and rebirth of individuals in life and civilizations in their lives. 

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:12 The Meaning of BenOMTAD

01:01 Format of this Episode

01:25 Recalling the Oracle

02:46 Ian on the Orphic Hymn

04:05 Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology” on Dionysus

14:56 Thoughts on the Murder of Pentheus by the Maenids

18:05 A Possible Earlier Version of Dionysus

23:26 A Dionysian Lineage

26:45 Humanity Born from the Titans, in this Telling

28:20 Gold Leaf Possible Evidence for Dionysus’s Role in Creating Humanity

30:46 This Interesting Side Myth

32:25 Liking the Multiple Local Myths and Thinking of Renewal

34:51 We are an Ultra Social Species

36:04 Multiple Facets of Dionysus and Renewal

37:16 Dionysus’ Rebirth from Semele

39:03 Unwelcome Dionysus

40:17 A Bit on Nietzsche’s Dionysian vs Apollonian

42:53 Why Dionysus May Be the Patron of Theater

44:22 The Transformative Place of Theater in Greek Culture

50:58 How is Dionysus Transformative?

59:42 The Direct Metaphor of Grapes to the Character of Dionysus

01:05:14 Orpheus

01:14:30 Theme: If You Do Not Dissolve in the Transformative Process, You Will Be Destroyed

01:18:50 Balancing the Dionysian and Apollonian in Meditation

01:19:18 How Orpheus Lost His Faith

01:26:18 A Prophetic Warning for Our Civilization

01:28:29 This Balance is Also Our Challenge Every Day

01:37:32 If We Don’t Have Faith, It Could Come and We Won’t Even See It

01:41:25 My Own Story of Ignored Creativity

01:44:03 Our Intention with This Podcast

If you’re mindful, you’re better able to connect to and serve others.  How does one get so?  Getting back to what naturally arises.  

(From a discussion on Von Schönwerth’s “Anna Mayala”)

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The Sheriff, out hunting with the town notables, wishes John were with them.  The bugle calls, and back at the castle, John awakens.  He thinks of his compadres over in Sherwood– the green men, and sees how he’s grown fat in the six Fall and Winter months with the Sheriff.  He goes to the pantry and asks the Steward for some meat and bread, and the fat man, envious of John’s closeness to the Sheriff, says it’s too late for breakfast.  John stomps over to it and breaks into the larder and starts to partake, and knocks the guard out when he intervenes.

The cook, spit in hand, runs over at the commotion.  The Steward bribes him to stop John, and he draws his sword and the Steward flees.  John reasons with the cook– one of us might go to Heaven by the end of the day, how about doing so on a full belly?  They size each other up respectfully as they fill up on pie and sack.

Time to fight: they draw and withdraw to a large corridor, but after an hour no one has gotten the better of the other.  Leaning on their weapons, they reason that they’re the strongest of the lot of the place, and John tempts the cook with the promise of camaraderie with the Green Men, so they abscond with the Sheriff’s food and silver.

Back in Sherwood, the men are merry at John’s rejoining them.  But Robin Hood’s face is grave: the Sheriff has not done wrong and does not deserve this recompense.  John moves to rectify his error and goes out to the Sheriff, drawing him to the group with promise of a herd of jumpy game.  The Sheriff despondently drinks with Hood and is sent back to the town bigwigs with a big lumpy sack of silver.  And that is the tale of how Little John ended his tenure with the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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Ian and I discuss McLuhan’s difficult Playboy interview where he answers questions about his philosophy of technology.  At the core of our concern is how to live well, connected to people and ourselves as embodied beings, as information technology advances.  Perhaps appropriate to the topic, we do struggle some to get ahold of his philosophy and how to go forward with this concern.  

McLuhan’s 1969 Playboy Interview:

https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/spring07/mcluhan.pdf

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an: Rousseau seems to have an inherent faith in nature, in its goodness.  If you believe in that, you have something to aim for, to return to that.  I: Rousseau also says that most virtues are negative.

(From our discussion “Rousseau, Happiness, & Modernity”)

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Three brothers, tired of poverty, go out into the world.  In the forest, they come to a hill of silver and the first brother decides to load his pockets and return home.  The second does so with a hill of gold, but the third goes further into a much-larger forest, one of unknown breadth.  There, starving, he climbs a tree to look around, wishes for food, and finds a knapsack that always provides a feast.

Going on, he finds a succession of coal-burners who live on potatoes.  He trades them the knapsack for each of the unused gifts they have, using one of those gifts– a squad of soldiers at his beck and call– to steal back his feast sack each time.  Returning home and unacknowledged in his shabbiness, he raises raises cain with his brothers and punishes them, drawing the attention of the neighborhood and then of the king, but beating all opposing forces back.  

He uses his superiority to negotiate with the king and demands his daughter’s hand in marriage.  She also rejects him because of his appearance, but she tries to guile him out of his gifts.  He is able to successfully counterattack each time and eventually destroys much of the kingdom, taking the life of the king and his daughter in the process.  He then ruled over the whole land.

We summarize and then discuss this tale of ambition, risk, luck, gifts and judging based on appearance.  

Grimm's "The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn"

Three brothers, tired of poverty, go out into the world.  In the forest, they come to a hill of silver and the first brother decides to load his pockets and return home.  The second does so with a hill of gold, but the third goes further into a much-larger forest, one of unknown breadth.  There, starving, he climbs a tree to look around, wishes for food, and finds a knapsack that always provides a feast.

Going on, he finds a succession of coal-burners who live on potatoes.  He trades them the knapsack for each of the unused gifts they have, using one of those gifts– a squad of soldiers at his beck and call– to steal back his feast sack each time.  Returning home and unacknowledged in his shabbiness, he raises raises cain with his brothers and punishes them, drawing the attention of the neighborhood and then of the king, but beating all opposing forces back.  

He uses his superiority to negotiate with the king and demands his daughter’s hand in marriage.  She also rejects him because of his appearance, but she tries to guile him out of his gifts.  He is able to successfully counterattack each time and eventually destroys much of the kingdom, taking the life of the king and his daughter in the process.  He then ruled over the whole land.

We summarize and then discuss this tale of ambition, risk, luck, gifts and judging based on appearance.  

(From a discussion on the Brothers Grimm’s ”The Knapsack, the Hat, and the Horn”)

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Attention is your light, and that can build if you can keep your attention on it.  It can grow, and we can see it more truly.  Instead of increasing our attention, however, we often instead look for something that seems bright to our minds right now, what is salient, and so forth.  Do not take the world as it presents to you now.

(From our discussion “Rousseau, Happiness, & Modernity”)

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The beautiful Veri and Anna Mayala were in love, but she was poor, and her many suitors were grievous to them.  But finally, they were to be married, and on that date imaginative “Crazy Veri” got a roebuck from the woods for the feast and was walking back to the village.

At a footbridge, his mind wandering, he noticed the moon had already risen, and its reflection shone in the water.  He grew melancholy, and was drawn by sweet melodies.  He saw a beautiful pair of legs, and a woman plopped on his shoulder.  She looked into his eyes, saying he would forget his bride, but he went with her.

Some time later, Anna Mayala was to be married.  She walked with her mother of the same name, and a wild man ran up to them, trying to take the bride, saying he’d been gone but he was the rightful groom.  He was pushed away, and then seen in the town from time to time, until he was seen in the parson’s house, and then no more.  

More time passed, and a Franciscan monk would come to the town occasionally, liking especially to stay with Anna Mayala and her husband.  When her husband died, she realized who Veri was, and he told her his story.  Down below, he’d had several children with his wife, but her feet were bound with ribbons, as were the childrens.’  He eventually discovered their webbed, clawed feet and wished for a normal child, and when it came it horrified the mermaids and they devoured it.  At this, he cried out and was sent back to our world.

Later, when Anna Mayala died, Veri passed away kneeling at her bedside.  Two white doves flew out of the window.  When Anna’s daughter grieved out loud at the stream, the waters overflowed into the house and did not stop roiling until the priest sprinkled holy water.  Receding, child corpses were left behind.  

Every anniversary of Crazy Veri’s death, the stream overflows its banks, and the moon is no longer reflected in its waters.

Join us for this summary and discussion of the German tale of wildness, forbidden love, longing and lost time!

(From a discussion on Von Schönwerth’s “Anna Mayala”)

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About the Merchant’s son’s character: Early in life he showed faith in his father, himself, the world… How did he change?  When he goes back home he is not recognized by the sentries of his hometown.  Then he changes into the shepherd’s garb.  Perhaps there is something of another world to him, and he isn’t to return to this world? 

(From a discussion of “The King of the Golden Mountain,” by the Brothers Grimm)

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