i did the math and the physics. i got hit by this 6 thousand pound monster, but at the speed that it was going which is 50 miles an hour, it was the equivalent of getting hit by 30,000 pounds.

Joseph Campbell and all mythological studies talk about the rites of manhood. I am about to turn into a legal adult.

This Buick is one physical 30,000 pound force that i have slain.

GREAT REHEARSAL LAST NIGHT

super work last night. i am all kinds of excited.

The pictures of monsters below come from four different traditions. The first picture is entitled The Sea Monster, by Albrecht Durer. It is an engraving from around 1498.

The secound picture is The Head of the Medusa by Pieter Pauwel Rubens, from 1617. It shows the severed head of the mythological monster.

The third picture is from a Japanese movie. From a mere film, Godzilla, King of the Monsters has become a major export product of Japan.

The fourth picture is a different approach to monsters. It is the DVD cover of Pixar's Monsters, Inc.


Picture 1: The Sea Monster (Durer)



Picture 2: A mythological monster: The Head of the Medusa by Rubens



Picture 3: Godzilla, the King of the Monsters



Picture 4: Pixar's Monsters, Inc.



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Great Work Today!

Here is the video I was talking about:

Sirens- A different kind of montser.

Sirens are sea demons, half woman and half bird. They are remarkable singers. According to the oldest legend Sirens lived on an island in the Mediterranean and attracted sailors passing nearby with their music. The ships would thus approach rocky coast and got ruined. The Sirens then devoured the imprudent sailors.

Sirens, like harpies, partake of women and of birds, in various ways. In early Greek art sirens were represented as birds with large women's heads, bird feathers and scaly feet and sometimes manes of lions. Later, they were represented as female figures with the legs of birds, with or without wings playing a variety of musical instruments, especially harps. The tenth century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda says that from their chests up Sirens had the form of sparrows, below they were women, or, alternatively, that they were little birds with women's faces. Birds were chosen because of their characteristic, beautiful voices. Later Sirens were sometimes also depicted as beautiful women, whose bodies, not only their voices, are seductive. The fact that in Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian or Portuguese, the word for mermaid are respectively Sirena, Sirène, Sirena, Syrena, Sirenă and Sereia creates visual confusion, so that sirens are even represented as mermaids. "The sirens, though they sing to mariners, are not sea-maidens," Harrison cautions; "they dwell on an island in a flowery meadow."

n Argonautica (4.891-919) Jason had been warned by Chiron that Orpheus would be necessary in his journey. When Orpheus heard their voices, he drew out his lyre and played his music more beautifully than they, drowning out their voices. One of the crew, however, the sharp-eared hero Butes, heard the song and leapt into the sea, but he was caught up and carried safely away by the goddess Aphrodite.

Odysseus was curious as to what the Sirens sounded like, so, on Circe's advice, he had all his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He ordered his men to leave him tied to the mast, no matter how much he would beg. When he heard their beautiful song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they stuck to their orders (or they couldn't hear him). When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus demonstrated with his frowns to be released (Odyssey XII, 39).

Some post-Homeric authors state that the Sirens were fated to die if someone heard their singing and escaped them, and that after Odysseus passed by they therefore flung themselves into the water and perished. A varying tradition associates this event with their encounter with Jason, though the incident does not appear in Apollonius Rhodius's Argonautica. Many scholars believe the above vase depicts a drowning attempt on the part of one of the Sirens.

It is also said that Hera, queen of the gods, persuaded the Sirens to enter a singing contest with the Muses. The Muses won the competition and then plucked out all of the Sirens' feathers and made crowns out of them

I chose to research sirens because I found it interesting that they are in fact monsters, but contradict the stereotype appearance wise, which I thought was cool.

What exactly is the Boogeyman?

The bogeyman, boogyman, bogyman, boogey monster, or boogeyman, is a folklore or legendary ghostlike monster often believed in by children. The bogeyman has no specific appearance whatsoever, and can in fact vary drastically from household to household within the same community; in many cases he simply has no set appearance in the mind of a child, but is simply an amorphous embodiment of terror. Bogeyman can be used metaphorically to denote a person or thing of which someone has an irrational fear. Parents often say that if their child is naughty, the bogeyman will get them, in an effort to make them behave. The bogeyman legend may originate from Scotland, where such creatures are sometimes called bogles, boggarts, or bogies.

Perhaps its ambiguity is what makes it so frightening. An example of the fear of the unknown. I think everyone has their own personal boogeyman, or fear of the unknown.

Perhaps it is a way of personifying death, an extremely grey or unknown subject for mortals to think about... so why not just call it the Boogeyman!?

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