Apocalyptic Archetype

Many of the same ancient stories can be found in different cultures. Each story differs in a small way, but the general idea remains synonymous. One story that is paralleled in several cultures is the legend of a great flood. The epic of Gilgamesh resembles the Bible’s story of Noah’s Ark, but specific details differ in several aspects.

Throughout this course, I have learned about what a myth is and all of the themes that fit into myths. The most common themes seen throughout the myths we have studied during this course are fate, pride and hubris, heroism, justice and vengeance, and beauty. I have thoroughly enjoyed learning about mythology throughout this course and I have always felt that the controlling question driving this course is, why is mythology so important to us, even today? It is important to know the answer to this question and to know about the different themes seen throughout the myths studied in this course.

The floods in The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis 6-9 are very similar. In both the flood were sent to wipe out all humankind. Both floods however could be seen as symbols as a rebirth or a new beginning to what was see by God and the gods as a crumbling world. Both heroes in the story were chosen to build a boat to save a

If one is able to reach this conclusion that history is repeating itself in a chronological manner based on the overwhelming similarities between ancient and modern historical occurrences, then preparing for the next occurrence could not be more crucial. The next occurrence is the foremost reason why historical prophecies in Ezekiel should be utilized as a tool to educate people on how to approach and possibly solve current problems.

Joseph Campbell is a famous scholar who studied mythologies. He called them archetypes. They are myths that follow a specific pattern. The departure, where the hero must leave home, after having a unusual birth or childhood. Then the hero goes through the initiation, were he/

The stories of Antigone, Gilgamesh, and Genesis were stories that are applicable even in situations happening today. These all have universal themes and have symbols. These stories are iconic because the way the authors’ composed the stories. The authors used literary devices to portray underlying messages. These stories have common elements, such as theme, even though they were written in different decades.

There are many obvious motifs included in all the myths discussed. One of the main motifs used in multiple myths was the explanation for chaos. Many cultures believed that the chaos the gods put upon the people was retaliation of the actions. Another theory is that the gods caused chaos to show their people that there would not always be all good, and that good

Of relationships between mortals and immortals tell lots of different myths, and rather important become the myths of gods punishing people because the last tended to get a false idea of their own importance. These punishment usually were floods and casting into the hell-fire.

Chapter one is a survey of modern scholarly literature related to the theme of worship in the Apocalypse. It is divides into four subtopics; A) The theme of worship as a whole, B) The hymns in the Apocalypse, C) Revelation 4-5, D) Additional worship scenes.

While the myths somewhat differ, there were a few similarities among them. Many of the stories involved a serpent, upper and lower worlds, and they had creator deities that were typically animals.

The majority of apocalyptic literature was written between second century B. C. and first century A.D. Apocalyptic literature is a specific genre and can be defined within a compositional understanding which includes apocalyptic works referring to historical Jewish events or describing other worldly journeys, prophesying about the end of the world, and the judgment of God. As has been shown while apocalyptic literature may not be considered canonical scripture by Protestants it is very fascinating to study and

The Apocalypse. In a religious context, the apocalypse is a disclosure of knowledge or revelation, usually of something hidden. In the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, John the Apostle, one of Jesus’ twelve disciples, receives the prophecy of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. With this Revelation John learns that Jesus, the son of God, will one day return to Earth from the Heavens, and with his return he will judge the living and the dead and usher in a new kingdom of God, a kingdom on Earth where pain or suffering cease to exist. Therefore, the apocalypse within the Bible marks the revelation of Jesus Christ’s return. In the contemporary setting however, the term ‘apocalypse’ differentiates rather drastically from that of its’ religious’

All three of these myths are based upon the beginning and end of life. In these myths, the central idea of happiness everywhere is significant. The myths begin with there being chaos and tragedy between

Apocalypse, as defined by Murphy is: “a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spatial insofar as it involves another, supernatural world” (Murphy, 128). To put this definition in layman’s terms, an apocalypse is a narrative of sorts. A human receives a message, usually in the form of a vision that is not self-explanatory, but requires interpretation by a supernatural being (Murphy, 128). The temporal aspect of apocalypses refers to the development that the apocalyptic followers thought would happen in the future, though not the distant future (Limmer, “Lecture 8, part 1”). It also refers to the ambiguity of these visions and the archetypes they used, which could often be re-used for a different apocalyptic text (Limmer, “Lecture 8, part 1”). Apocalypses are different from other prophecies in that they envision and describe another universe alongside

While the differences stick out more to me between the myths then the common side does. Adding on, in the first myth the Baucis myth the main characters Baucis/ Philemon both