CartLoser Gods and Deities Instructor: Jason Mohaghegh Program: Transdisciplinary Studies, Art & Curatorial PracticeCredit(s): 1Date: July 12th, 19th, 26th, August 2nd.Time: 14:00-16:30 ET
DESCRIPTION: Every ancient pantheon refers to its own loser gods. Whether we look to Babylon, Egypt, Greece, China, the Aztecs, or myriad indigenous cosmologies, we will find the stories of those lesser deities who have been disgraced, banished, or punished. Some have absurd physiologies or disfigurements; others follow paranormal rituals or possess borderline useless powers that cause them to fall outside the top levels of the universal hierarchy. Some have been forgotten, lost in time; others are feared for they bring plague, famine, disease; still others play no role in the world’s destiny or dwell in the shadows, the vapor, or the nothing itself. Prometheus, Medusa, Arachne, Set, Ahriman, Nezha, Sedna, Loki, Hades, Pandora, Kali, Tiamat, Xolotl, Aipaloovik, Erlik, Satan, and thousands more.
This Seminar will track these loser gods and resurrect their narratives as a new philosophical-mystical outlook. Through them, we will wonder about alternative existences where those once most neglected might rule.
Session 1: Dethroned Gods (Overthrow) and Gods of Failed Revolutions (Rebellion)
Session 2: Outcast Gods (Exile) and Minor Gods (Irrelevance)
Session 3: Gods of Lost Powers (Disenchantment) and Gods of Lost Status (Obsolescence)
Session 4: Trickster Gods (Play) and Accursed Gods (Pain)
IMAGE: Bazil, Haydari Battle, 1808
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