Wed, March 7, 2018
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
University Hall 448
Discovery Themes Seminar by Jason BeDuhn
Title:
As Rivers Flow into the Ocean: Manichaean Reception and Remake of Ancient Myth
Description:
Manichaeans claimed that all religions stemmed from a common source, and all mythologies represented distorted versions of an original myth. Mani and his followers used a kind of comparative mythology to recover and reconstruct this imagined ur-myth, and we can understand Manichaean myth as a selective synthesis and reinterpretation of regional mythic themes of West Asia.