Michael Chase Walker discusses the deconstruction of archetypal mythology and its application to story structure in modern cinema

2. Mythology is a branch science of human
consciousness
Sign Stimulus DNA Imprint
Culture Area Theory
Innate Releasing Mechanisms or IRM’S
Faculty X Parallel Development
Archetypal Icons Diffusion Theory
Pseudo Historic Metamorphosis

5. St. Nicholas Hold Nikkor

8. Whenever a myth has been taken literally
its sense has been perverted’ but also
reciprocally, that whenever it has been
dismissed as a mere priestly fraud or sign
of inferior intelligence, truth has slipped
out the door.
Asobase-Kotobe: Japanese play form

9. Creativity
Is the intense encounter between the artist and
His/her world.
Rollo May
The Courage to Create

10. Alan Ball American Beauty
August Strindberg’s Matches
“An eruption of emotion” Leo Frobenius
Linda Schierse Leonard’s
Meeting the Mad Woman

11. Meetings with Unbelievably Mad Women

14. Every study undertaken by Man was the genuine outcome of
curiosity, a kind of game. All the data of natural science, which
are responsible for Man’s domination of the world, originated in
activities that were indulged in exclusively for the sake of
amusement.
Konrad Lorenz
The Play’s the thing…

18. “Das Ewig-Weibliche Zieht uns hinan.”
“The Eternal Feminine draws us onward.”
Von Goethe

19. The great tragedy of Christianity
is its obsession with what was
true once as opposed to what is
true always.
Alan Watts: The Wisdom of
Insecurity

20. Ontogeny recapitulates
phylogeny
Mythology reveals the anabasis
progression of the human brain

21. Spinal Column/ Cerebral Cortex/ Triumvirate Brain
The Evolved Brain/ The
Future Brain/Faculty X
Limbic Brain
Reptilian Brain

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53. Where Eastern Mysticism and Western
Psychology meet:
1. All the gods and goddesses are within the human
brain
2. A man’s fate is his character
3. A man’s character and fate can be altered through
Brain Change

54. There are three pathways to
Genius:
Music, Math and Myth
James Hillman

55. Human consciousness is like living in a
vast cathedral-- few ever leave the
confessional.
Lower Consciousness cannot fathom
higher consciousness.
Colin Wilson

58. The myth is the foundation of life,
the timeless schema, the pious
formula into which life flows
when it reproduces its traits out of
the unconscious.
Thomas Mann

60. Inanna opened her ear to the moaning of her sister
Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld and abandoned her
realm of heaven and earth, even her temples, to descend into
the "great below". "With the me in her possession, she
prepared herself:" placing her crown upon her head, beads of
lapis lazuli around her neck, sparkling stones fastened to her
breast (Henderson & Oakes, p. 102) , a gold ring around her
wrist, and a royal robe upon her body. She bound a
breastplate about her chest and took a lapis measuring rod
and line in her hand. Then she set out for the kur, the
netherworld, with her faithful servant, Ninshubur.

62. When she arrived at the outer gates of the kur she
commanded Ninshubur to wait for three days, and if she had
not returned, to call upon the elder Gods for help.When Inanna
challenged the gatekeeper to gain entry into the kur, he
consulted with Ereshkigal, telling her that a giant and powerful
goddess, arrayed in splendor and with signs of authority, was
waiting to enter Her realm.

65. Brain
Intelligence

66. Heart

67. Ego
Id
Flight or Fight

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74. All mythology and the corresponding symbols
that derive from them originate from specific
regions of the human body.

75. 7. God/Genius/Wizard/Imagination
Paradise/Myth/Epiphany/Enlightenment
6. Pineal Gland/ Intuition/ Soul
Omniscience/Wisdom
5.Throat/Communication/Magick
Harmony, Law, Education, Art
4. Heart/Love/Romance//Life/Death
3. Stomach/Religion/
Sacrifice/Labyrinth/ Eternal
life/After life/Power
2.Genitals/Desire/Gods/Wealth/Heaven/
Couplings.
1. Anus/Hell/Misogyny/Evil/Oppression,
Dragons, Jerks, Orphans, homophobia

76. 1. Orphan/Fool
2. Wanderer/Merchant/Renunciate
3. Warrior/Hero
4. Innocent
5. Apprentice/Magician
6. Wizard/World Teacher/Monarch

77. 1 2 3
Provincial World Return World
Magical World of Journey

78. 5 10 20
Page 1 Page 15 Page 30

79. Act Two
45 75
35 60 90
Mid-Act Climax

80. 100 105 110 115 120
90

81. Emerald City, Threshold Guardian, and
Glynda, Crone, and Heirophant Return
World, Oannes, the fish god, Kingdom
of Heaven is within you, My father’s
kingdom is rent upon the earth, but none
can see it. The Jewel in the Lotus,
Sleeping Serpent, the awakened buddha,
Red Dragon, Dragon and the George.
Silence of the Lambs.

82. "He who joyfully marches to music in
rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large
brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would suffice.”
Albert Einstein

83. Where do Myths come from?
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

84. Spirituality
God = Imagination
Soul

85. The dark shadow of intuition is the intuitive opportunism of the
sociopath.
James Hillman

86. Since the beginning of
civilization humankind has been
faced with one choice

87. For the great enemy of truth is very often not
the lie-- deliberate, contrived and dishonest--
but the myth-- persistent, persuasive, and
unrealistic.

88. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our
forbearers. We subject all facts to a prefabricated
set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of
opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy

89. Whether to conform or not to
conform

90. Very deep is the well of the past. Should we not
call it bottomless? The deeper we sound, the
further down into the lower world of the past we
probe and press, the more do we find that the
earliest foundations of humanity, its history and
culture, reveal themselves unfathomably.
Thomas Mann
Tetrologu Joseph and His Brothers

91. All modern religions derive from three
primitive obsessions
Cannibalism
Human Sacrifice
Animal Sacrifice

92. Interceding Images from the Right Brain
Bodhisattva
Gate, Gate, Paragate Parasam Gati
Bodhi svaha

93. Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

94. The 12 Stages of Story Development
1. Theme
2. Paradigm
3. Premise
4. External Structure

95. THEME
What’s the story really about?
Love/ Hate
Truth/Falsity
Slavery/Freedom
Greed/Bounty

96. External Story Structures
Structural Archetypes
MYTH
HERO Outlaw

97. Sex and beauty are as inseparable as life
and consciousness and the intelligence that
arises from sex and beauty, as with life and
consciousness, is intuition.
D.H. Lawrence

98. The Magical Stranger Returns

99. Three Tiers of Political Power
1. Prevailing Elite
2. Marginal Bureaucrats
3. Dissident Rebel/Revolutionaries

100. Inciting Incident
Return Betrayal Trial
World of Story Martyrdom
Reversal
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30 Ghost
Miracles and Wonders

101. Intuition is the very fount of consciousness from
which springs: Science, Physics, Math,
Medicine, Art, Literature, Myth and religion.
Anyone who has ever spent time with a
physicist will be impressed with how much they
rely upon their intuition. The fundamentalist is
just as preoccupied with his intuition and is
obsessed with proven how right he is at every
turn as though his god’s effectiveness depended
on it. Indeed, it does. He will even subvert the
truth in pursuit of his intuitive correctness.

102. The Messiah Story
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Cool Hand Luke
Jesus of Montreal
Dead Poets Society
Jean De Florette
Spartacus

103. Always do what you’re afraid
to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

104. Should he choose to conform,
that individual is a dead man for
every life decision he will make
has already been determined for
him by society at large.

105. Should he choose not to conform
he buys himself one more choice-

106. To become outlaw or hero.
Sigmund Freud

107. The modern hero, the modern individual
who dares to heed the call and seek the
mansion of that presence with whom it is
our whole destiny to be atoned, cannot,
indeed, must not, wait for his community to
cast off its slough of pride, fear, rationalized
avarice, and sanctified misunderstanding.
“Live”, Nietzsche says, ‘ as though the day
were here.’ It is not society that is to guide
the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.”
Hero with a Thousand Faces

108. For surely it is folly to preach to children who
will be riding rockets to the moon a morality and
cosmology based on concepts of the Good
Society and of man’s place in nature that were
coined before the harnessing of the horse. And
the world is far too small , and men’s stake in
sanity too great, for any more of the old games
of the Chosen Folk (whether of Jehovah, Allah,
Wotan, Manu, or the Devil) by which tribesman
were sustained against their enemies in the days
when the serpent still could talk.

110. 22 Heroic Attributes Common to most
Archetypal Heroes
1. His birth is prophesized and highly anticipated.
2. He is an Orphan.
3. His Mother is royalty and a virgin
4. His Father is a king
5. His conception was immaculate or unusual.
6. He is reputed to be the son of a god
7. At birth an attempt is made on his life.
8. He is spirited away at birth and raised by his nemesis or in
order to hide him from his conspirators/assassins.
9. Reared by foster-parents in a far country
10. Sketchy Details of his childhood.

111. 11.On reaching manhood he goes on a quest.
12. He defeats a dragon, ogre or Threshold Guardian.
13. He marries a princess, often the daughter of his predecessor.
14. He enters the Underworld/ defeats the Lord of the Underworld.
15. He returns to the provincial world
16. He prescribes laws and moral dictums
17. He later loses favor with the gods and or his people
18. He is driven from from the throne and the city
19. He meets with a mysterious, gruesome or untimely death
20. Often at the top of a hill. The Hill of his ancestors.
21. His body is not buried, but nevertheless he has one or more
holy sepulchres.
22. His Spirit or ghost returns one day as p.

112. "Indeed, the great Leonardo remained like a child for the
whole of his life in more than one way; It is said that all
great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as
an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason
why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to
his contemporaries.
Sigmund Freud, 1910

113. Everywhere I go I find that artists and
poets have been there before me.
Sigmund Freud

114. Then Ereshkigal fastened on Inanna the eye of death.
She spoke against her the word of wrath. She uttered
against her the cry of guilt. She struck her.Inanna was
turned into a corpse, A piece of rotting meat, And was
hung from a hook on the wall. After three days,
Ninshubur went to Enlil, God of Air, who refused to help,
for the Underworld was not in His domain. Ninshubur
went to Nanna, God of the Moon, who also refused to
help, for he had no jurisdiction over the Underworld.
Finally, Ninshubur went to Enki, God of Wisdom and
Water, who originally blessed Inanna with the me of
descent into and ascent from the kur. Enki was grieved
and troubled. From under his fingernails he took dirt and
created two creatures, neither male nor female, and
gave them the food and water of life to carry to
Inanna.These creatures snuck into the kur like flies,
slipping through the cracks in the gates.

115. They entered the throne room and found Ereshkigal lying
naked and unkempt, moaning "Oh! Oh! My inside!".Following
Enki's instructions, they also moaned "Oh! Oh! Your
inside!".Again she moaned "Ohhh! Oh! My outside!"To which
the creatures replied "Ohhh! Oh! Your outside!"She continued
to moan out her agony and they continued to name her pains
back to her. Finally, she stopped moaning and blessed the
creatures, offering them any gift they desired. They asked for
Inanna's corpse, and revived her with the food and water of
life. Inanna then arose and ascended to the upper world.

116. “A belief is not an idea the mind possesses, it
is an idea that possesses the mind.”
Robert Oxton Bolt

118. 13
Thirteen
Moons MONTHS Days Years
MENSTRUAL PERIODS

119. 12 plus 1
12 Jurors/1 judge Bar Mitzvah
Circumcision/Initiation/Catechism
Buildings/Stories/Floors
13 X 28 = 364 plus 1=365
Witches Coven Disciples