Meditation #6 -- Katie Marchant
Wikipedia.com describes myth in two basic ways. The first is “Mythology, mythography, or folkloristics - In these academic fields, a myth (mythos) is a sacred story concerning the origins of the world or how the world and the creatures in it came to have their present form.” The second is “A myth, in popular use, is something that is widely believed but false.” In my opinion a myth is a story that has been told over and over for many generations and even many centuries. But thought all these years the story has changed and been adapted by each individual storyteller so they can make their point. I believe that a myth can have some “true” parts but the majority of the ideas and characters are “false”. Because myths are “false” they can present morals and the basics of life in a way that many people can understand and relate to. To me a myth should have some sort of meaning behind it. Be it a creation story, a story that is teaching us something or even teaching us what is wrong with society.I would be really interested in studying myths and folklore from different cultures and investigating the similarities and differences from culture to culture. Part of my family is from Nicaragua and I know that Nicaraguan myth and folklore is very different from European myth and folklore which is different from Greek myth and folklore. What interests me the most about these differences is that although they do change the stories each of these cultures all have variations of the same story. It is intriguing how many different cultures can have similar stories that can shape the people in very different ways.
posted by Katie Marchant @ 5:53 PM
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