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Imago anatopism/ – The story of Volund, stage 12 #SL

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This is the last stage and the installation is now closed. This stage is called ”Freedom to live”.

Campbell writes: ”The hero is the champion of things becoming, not of things become, because he is.” And later ”Having died to his personal ego, he arose again established in the Self”.

Imago anatopism/ – The story of Volund, stage 10 #SL

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This is the stage called ”Master of the two worlds”. Toward the end of the story Volund sits on a roof, like a bird, and tells the king what has happend and what the future will be. In the story this is the cruel part, Volund has conquered the king by making his daughter pregnant and the king has noone to take over his role as a ruler. The cruel thing in the story is that the…

Imago anatopism/50% evil – The story of Volund, stage 7 #SL #BTB14

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Working with the story about Volund shows me that the choiche and the actions you do in a particular situation is judged as good or evil. A character is caught in a story and when the story first has captured an action it is hard to remove that action and the story that will you.

In stage 7 the hero in Joseph Campbell’s book is supposed to start his journey back home, with new…

Imago anatopism/50% evil – The story of Volund, stage 6 #SL #BTB14

Last post here. http://historieforteller.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/imago-anatopism50-evil-the-story-of-volund-stage-5-sl-btb14/This stage is the road of trials and the meeting with the goddess

Now the buisness starts to get serious for the protagonist. Volund gets an armring of the valkyrie, a token, a symbol of the union, and also a piece that he measure his own forging up against. In norse…

Imago anatopism/50% evil – The story of Volund, stage 5 #SL #BTB14

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This stage is the road of trials and the meeting with the goddess Here the protagonist discover his own strength and power. Volund discovers his ability to forge, he can forge statues that looks lifelike and the best weapons. ”She is the mother, sister, mistress, bride” – Campbells write. But she is also the death of of everything that dies. Campbell continues: ”Woman, in the…

Imago anatopism/50% evil – The story of Volund, stage 4 #SL #BTB14

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The idea of the entering another world – the first threshold – is often in a sort of container floating in the water. Joseph Campbell calls it ”the belly of the whale”. This is a common motif in many folktales, at least in Norwegian folklore. The storyteller Marit Jerstad looks upon this is a kind of rebirth, the picture is similar to being carried in the mothers womb. You find…

Imago anatopism/50% evil – The story of Volund, stage 2 #SL #BTB14

The next virtual situation in the story of Volund is a picture of his father falling down from the platform; the passengers do not engage, but are looking down. The dwarfs rejoice, while Volund close his eyes to it all.

Overview

The passenger

This symbolizes what Joseph Campbell calls: ”the refusal of call”. The refusal of call – is a state when you do not hear, or misinterpret the call or even…

Installation in LEA10

This is a study of persona where we through stages in a narrative asks what masks do we present to the world, it being mosaic, chamelon, intimate or distanced. We invite you to walk through the stages and become a character. Main artist: Alpha Auer

Alpha Auer is one of the Second Life avatars of Elif Ayiter, who is a designer and educator, as well as the editor in chief of…