The New Theogony: Mythology for the Real World Book

	Introduction	1
	Definition and Theories of Myth	3
	Mythology in Four Moves: The Methodology of the New Theogony	5
Ch. 1	The Mythic Model: On the One and the Zero	13
	The Problem with One	16
	How These Two Models Operate	19
	Historical Glimpses	20
	The One Made Myth versus Zero Made Theory	23
	Revisioning the Triple Goddess	24
	The Four and the Three	25
	Phase One: Chaos, Golden Age, New Moon, Maia	25
	Phase Two: The Virgin, The Androgyne, Mythos	26
	Phase Three: Full Moon, Mother/Lover, Mimesis	27
	Phase Four: Crone, Iron Age, Waning Moon, Logos	29
	Vestiges of the Lunar Cycle	31
	The Path Back to One	34
Ch. 2	Chaos to Cosmos	37
	Cosmology	37
	Sacred Marriage (Hieros Gamos)	44
	Generations of the God and Goddesses	48
	Creation of Man	50
	Ages of Man	55
	Conclusion: The Spindle of Necessity	59
	The Musical Model	60
Ch. 3	Models of Perfection: The Gods and Goddesses	63
	Zeus, Poseidon, Hades: Male Space Markers	65
	Hestia, Hera, Demeter: Female Space Markers	70
	Athena and Hephaestus: Divine Artisans	73
	Ares, Hebe, Eileithyia: Progeny of Zeus and Hera	76
	Dionysos and Heracles: Two Suffering God	78
	Aphrodite and Hermes: Of Love and Magic	81
	Apollo and Artemis: Mirror Twins	83
Ch. 4	The Fourfold Path	85
	The Shadow of Existence: Realm of Becoming	87
	The Path of Materialism	88
	The Path of Humanism	91
	Divine Harmonia: The Path Back to One	93
	The Heroic Path	94
	The Mystic Path	97
	Conclusion: The Path Back to Hestia	99
Ch. 5	Myth Made Flesh: The Philosophical Models	103
	Pythagorean Model of Education	104
	Plato's Mythical Divided Lines	106
	Conclusion: Recovering Our Mythic Origins	111
	App. The Monochord and Ancient Acoustics	115
	App. From Chaos to Cosmos: The Dismemberment of the One	118
	App. Membering and Dismembering: Apollo and Artemis and the Technology of Imagining	119
	App. The One Divided, The Realms of the Gods and the Human Paths	121
	App. The Gods and their Realms (Overview)	122
	App. Pythagorean Training and the Monochord	123
	App. Plato's Mythic Divided Lines	124
	Notes	127
	Bibliography	145
	Index	153