Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre
A magazine of the mythic arts
Spring 2025
Anarchy & Harmony
Volume 13, Number 1.
ISSN 2333-0627
Cover concept: Dara Napoli
Cover art: Jack Ruttan
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Dear Readers, Coreopsis Journal has never shied away from difficult subjects and never will. As a scholarly research journal and, as such, this issue contains sensitive, adult subject material. We welcome your letters and feedback. Please send letters to the editor at: coreopsisjournalofmyththeatre@gmail.com and include a note if you do not want your letter published in the Autumn 2025 issue. We will try to respond in a timely manner. Thank you.
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Table of Contents
Editorials
How to Fail
By Lezlie A. Kinyon, P.h.D, Editor
Essays and Papers Submitted for Peer Review, Spring 2025
Universalist Manifesto
By Robert Strong
The epic events of the last century have set the stage for a new polemic, where Universal Architectural thinking emerges. The advent of space travel opened the door to vast horizons of thought and previously unimagined scientific theories. The infusion of cultural memes in consideration of universal exploration has, oddly, also redefined the architect’s design process.
Campbell’s claim that it is a ‘universal’ representation of human experience, the ‘deep structure’ of all myths, a description of our shared values, and the measure of whether a new story is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. In such terms, it would seem impossible for a new story to escape the requirements of the Hero’s Journey, and yet the Hero’s Journey is implicitly a patriarchal, racist and toxic narrative model that we should seek to resist or unravel, so that its values are no longer perpetuated.
Inanna and Gender Ambiguity
By Deb Dale Jones, Ph.D.
For my teacher, Daniel Reisman, 1941 to 2024
Our task to understand how gender is constructed in the Iddin-Dagan hymn — and by extension perhaps in other Sumerian language compositions — is complicated by the way gender is treated by this language.
Artists’ Profiles
Part 1: Family and Nature
From Ontario to Sailing a Celestial Sea
Gallery
Reviews
The King in Yellow Tarot
A full 78 card deck inspired by the 19th century works of Robert W. Chambers with art by Daniel Harms and John Scott Tynes who divined the forms and portents of this Carcosan deck. Painter Kurt Komoda, in a fevered fugue of inspiration, reproduced designs thought long lost.
The Forager’s Daughter’s Tarot
A unique 78 card deck using the motifs of familiar flora and fauna in an elegant Art Nouveau style. Art by Jessica, The Forager’s Daughter.
New Releases
Music
Things we like released recently.
The Final Word,
Staff Written Editorial
We Are What We Choose
By Priya Sridhar, Staff Editor
Paper Call for Autumn 2025
See you in September!
Reference: Coreopsis Journal of Myth and Theatre. A magazine of the mythic arts. Spring 2025 Anarchy & Harmony. Volume 13 Number 1. ISSN 2333-0627 Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D. Editor Society for Ritual Arts coreopsis.org
Artists in this issue are: Dara Maverick Napoli, Jack Ruttan, Joel Bisaillon, Denita Benyshek, Ph.D, Carly J.J. Turner. All rights reserved, used by permission.
Editors this issue are: Lezlie Kinyon, Priya Sridhar, Peggy Wheeler, and Sean Sanford
Thank you to everyone who made this issue of Coreopsis Journal possible.
Web design and development by Stephanie O’Hanley and Dara Napoli. Website “tweaks” and corrections Priya Sridhar and Lezlie A. Kinyon.
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