User:Phatius McBluff

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[edit] About me

I've been on Wikipedia for a while now, and I'm getting the disturbing impression that some people think my real name is actually Phatius McBluff. Just so everyone knows, my real name is Joseph. How did I come up with the name "Phatius McBluff"? Well, my parents have a neighbor named Thatius, and I thought his name was Phatius for a long time before I got corrected (fortunately not by him). As for "McBluff"... Well, that's truly my own invention, one of the many useless mutant ideas my brain occasionally spews forth. And I think it sounds cool.

I'm currently an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. I'm majoring in philosophy, and in religious studies with a concentration in myth. I hope to get into grad school and eventually become a professor of one of these two subjects.

As far as my Wikipedia activity goes, my main interests are mythology, comparative religion, and philosophy (in that order). I'm particularly interested in theories dealing with the differences between mythical thought and modern thought. (See Mythopoeic thought and Eternal return (Eliade).) I don't consider myself an expert in any particular area of mythology, but I have done a fair amount of reading on the subject.

[edit] An award I've received

For your valuable contributions to the category Mircea Eliade, I, Timor Stultorum present you with the Exceptional Newcomer Award. Keep up the good work!

[edit] Articles I've created

• Eternal return (Eliade) - I originally joined Wikipedia specifically for the purpose of creating this article. Up until then, Wikipedia had been mainly focused on the shady political involvements of the famous religious historian Mircea Eliade, and had lacked an in-depth discussion of his scholarly work.
• Hierophany
• Myth and ritual
• Mythopoeic thought

[edit] Other articles to which I've contributed significantly

• Animism
• Claude Levi-Strauss - the section on the structural analysis of myth
• Hina - I had to pretty much remake this article.
• Ishtar
• Mircea Eliade - I have added, and am still adding, info on Eliade's scholarly work.
• Mythology
• Religion and mythology
• The Da Vinci Code - the section on the inaccuracies of the book's portrayal of Gnostic Christianity
• Christian mythology
• Hylomorphism
• Islamic mythology
• Jewish mythology