A couple notes

Ethnocentrism
What is consistent through all four chapters (Mountain, Cave, Garden, Furnace?) -> Movement along the Axis Mundi, which is the center of the world
All of these things are metaphors of ascent (mountain, garden) or descent (cave, furnace)
Tragic literature- people better than they are
Comedies - people worse than they are
Drama comes from "dromenon" which means something that is done
Ritual -> Dionysus
3 tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Hubris- arrogance
How do we put an end to the cycle of blood guilt and revenge as in the Oresteia?
"Clytemnestra Slaying Her Husband" by A. Russell

Here is a link to a painting of Orestes and the Furies:
http://www.trinity.edu/cbrown/huma/oresteia.html