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<blockquote data-quote="pensiv" data-source="post: 137869" data-attributes="member: 174"><p>Joseph Campbell's job and method was to look at the old myths and their relevance to our own world, but his <em>lesson</em> was that we all make our own myths and that each society gives birth to its own myths anew.</p><p></p><p>The old myths are blueprints of the human condition and, in general, the human condition does not change. What changes is technology; and technology and science are forming in themselves new myths in our own age.</p><p></p><p>The nature of myth is that a people living in a myth are not aware of it's mythic nature. People believing in such things as The Big Bang and Evolution are living according to myths just as much as they who are Creationists. Just because we call something "Science" does not take away it's mythic nature.</p><p></p><p>Myths are our way of cataloging ourselves and our relationship to the world around us. Fantasy novels don't borrow from mythology any more than any other fiction or non-fiction. It is all storytelling. Myths are stories.</p><p></p><p>What separates Fantasy/SciFi writing from other forms of literature is a departure from what we know as our world. This departure is only an illusion though, for we have only our own experiences to draw upon when crafting stories, so no matter what the names of characters or gods, or how alien a situation seems to be, we are still living in our own myths and crafting stories from them.</p><p></p><p>There needs to be no special effort to creating myths for our time, for every storyteller does it. Every communicating person does it, for myths are our own story.</p><p></p><p>"Dreams are private Myths and Myths, public Dreams." - C.G. Jung</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pensiv, post: 137869, member: 174"] Joseph Campbell's job and method was to look at the old myths and their relevance to our own world, but his [i]lesson[/i] was that we all make our own myths and that each society gives birth to its own myths anew. The old myths are blueprints of the human condition and, in general, the human condition does not change. What changes is technology; and technology and science are forming in themselves new myths in our own age. The nature of myth is that a people living in a myth are not aware of it's mythic nature. People believing in such things as The Big Bang and Evolution are living according to myths just as much as they who are Creationists. Just because we call something "Science" does not take away it's mythic nature. Myths are our way of cataloging ourselves and our relationship to the world around us. Fantasy novels don't borrow from mythology any more than any other fiction or non-fiction. It is all storytelling. Myths are stories. What separates Fantasy/SciFi writing from other forms of literature is a departure from what we know as our world. This departure is only an illusion though, for we have only our own experiences to draw upon when crafting stories, so no matter what the names of characters or gods, or how alien a situation seems to be, we are still living in our own myths and crafting stories from them. There needs to be no special effort to creating myths for our time, for every storyteller does it. Every communicating person does it, for myths are our own story. "Dreams are private Myths and Myths, public Dreams." - C.G. Jung [/QUOTE]
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