"For it is a common belief that the effect of contact with a sacred object must be removed, by washing or otherwise, before a man is free to mingle with his fellows. Thus the Jews wash their hands after reading the sacred scriptures."(The Golden Bough: Osiris as a Pig)

Day two of presentations went swimmingly. Even though Melinda may have dreaded having so many presentations on Henderson the Rain king, this was unfounded due to the sheer variety of interpretations that people came up with. Great presentation with a great aid, by the way Melinda.

I was impressed particularly with Mary Sean's presentation on what she had learned; namely, that mythology did not threaten her Catholicism but actually complimented it in a deeply enriching way(it probably should be said, if your faith was threatened or destroyed by hearing stories from Ovid or reading about the ritualistic killing of the King in Frazer, than your faith probably wasn't that deep to begin with). Her's paired nicely with Sally's on her own personal life expectations of literal eschatology and coming to understand that the world is actually ending all the time and we just didn't know it. This is illuminated by a line of Gerard Manly Hopkins': "Each day dies with sleep."

Way to go everyone, and read blogs for the final exam!