Parallel Mythology Resources
I highly recommend the following book, available on Amazon. It's called Parallel Mythology and was written by J.F. Beirlein. It gives a series of different myths and guides you in drawing the parallels between them.
Also, those of you interested in Jung and archetypes should check out the following sites:
Jung's Archetypal Theory Very detailed site with biography and list of archetypes and explanations
Jung's Archetypes A simpler site with good basic information
If you are up to a more scholarly work, check out this article that, among other things, cites the chicken hawk experiement I mentioned in class:
Also, those of you interested in Jung and archetypes should check out the following sites:
Jung's Archetypal Theory Very detailed site with biography and list of archetypes and explanations
Jung's Archetypes A simpler site with good basic information
If you are up to a more scholarly work, check out this article that, among other things, cites the chicken hawk experiement I mentioned in class:
Those behavior-regulating patterns have also been called inborn releasing mechanisms (IRMs), because it is clear that they individual has no way of learning the very well-defined conditions that "release" rigid response patterns (cf. Eibl-Eibesfeld, 20-25). For example a newborn chick can "recognize" the shadow of a chicken hawk passing over the barnyard and "knows" enough to run under a wagon for protection. Experiments with artificial chicken hawks have shown that there are very definite limits within which the hawk shape can be varied in order to obtain the desired IRM behavior from the chicks. This blind kind of knowing, which snaps shut like a steel trap, is also the way our human psyche operates when our level of consciousness is lowered to that of the instinct/archetypes.
