My World Mythology Class

I decided to take a mythology class this semester because I felt that it would be an easy A. Sadly, I found myself thrust into an environment full of misinformation and ignorance. My teacher, who shall remain nameless, has absolutely no background in the myths or beliefs of the ancients. She simply picked up the textbooks and began regurgitating the idle speculations and pure fantasies of Donna Rosenberg. 

In the books the author puts forth several historically incorrect ideas and words them as if they are fact. Here's a short list of her delusions. 

• there was once a great matriarchal society that worshiped a single goddess by many names
• all ancient cultures would host a competition for the males and the winner would be slaughtered and ritually cannibalized by the priestess queens
• a patriarchal society came and destroyed the matriarchies as well as introducing the idea of a male divinity
• the Minoans were destroyed by a massive land invasion by one of these patriarchal societies

Honestly, this author must have read all the Wiccan books from the 70's to believe this crap. Or she somehow managed to translate Linear A because all of the information she gives as fact occurred before the Hellenic Dark Age and thus before our written record. She also has this bit in almost every chapter talking about how the main goddess in the story is somehow a triple goddess with lunar aspects. Once again, she obviously does not know her history. The idea of triple goddess as we know it today was invented by Middle Age Christians in fictional texts. There is no definitive proof that the Celts had a triple goddess or any other culture for that matter. 

The teacher's arrogance and disrespect makes me want to barf. She likes to use air quotes when she refers to any god other than the Christian one. She gave an entire lecture to us about how all of the pagan gods just wanted worshipers and sacrifices because they are insecure. She takes a very linear view of the myths and assumes that the pagans believed them to be literal fact like zealot Christians believe the Bible to be. She can't pronounce a damn word to save her life. She very rarely gets her history right, even when it isn't straight from the textbook. She will make things up when confronted with a question that she doesn't know the answer to. The part that irks me the most is that she teaches three classes of 30ish students every semester every year. That's about 180 people that she sends off into the world each year with this warped, false idea about paganism, history, and foreign cultures. She might as well be a communist set out to "reeducate" the masses. 

I went into her room after school one day and told her that I'm a Hellene and have been for nearly 7 years. I then told her that I found certain parts of the text to be inaccurate and offensive to my religious beliefs. Her answer to my issue was "What am I supposed to do about it? I'm going to teach the class from the book." I was so angry about this answer. Her justification for not listening to me was that she doesn't know my "credentials". What the hell are credentials when you are talking about my faith? That's like telling someone that a book written by a Muslim on Catholicism is more accurate than the words of the pope. It's absolutely ridiculous. Also it's not like she has to use the books written by Rosenberg. There is another teacher who teaches the same course in my school. He use Edith Hamilton's book coupled with the Eddas and Vedas to teach his classes. 

I've decided to send my teacher a copy of every article I've ever written as well as links to sources on Hellenism, Heathenism, Hinduism, and Kemeticism at the end of this year. Hopefully she gets her head out of her ass and realizes that she needs to stop brainwashing the future generations of America.