Hi Everyone!!
I hope today is treating you well (^:
Creating a myth was really fun! I think it really introduced a new aspect to myths that I hadn't considered prior to creating one myself? I think I've always viewed them as something vaguely rudimentary given that they were predicated on a lack of knowledge regarding whatever natural phenomenon. But, having created my own, I feel that I view them a bit more fondly now? They don't seem as unrealistic or as "undeveloped" anymore, but now they feel a lot more ardent in their curiosity regarding the human condition or in their reverence of nature. I think going forward this will lead to me interacting with myths more meaningfully as opposed to going into it with the assumption that it's all imaginary. Creation is always so different from ruination that it makes me feel that to truly interact with myth one must create their own regardless of how silly it might be. Trying to find explanations for everyday occurrences or problems exercises one's creativity and their own understanding of humanity.
I think everything I learned was kind of summarized above, but I think the most important takeaway from it all was just that myths are intrinsically linked to humanity. Myths may sound far-fetched but they do have a shred of humanity in them that I feel distinguishes them from other forms of literature. In regards to the applicability of this in my future teaching career (of which I don't think I will have), I think an activity for creating myths would be a really fun activity to do with students; if only due to the fact that it challenges them to find the core essence of a myth, and apply it in their own creative ways. In a less action-oriented way, I also think just hammering in the fact that myths are not simply stories, but its own kind of literature would go a long way in kind of combatting the ridicule that mythology faces today.
In my own life I just think that its made me kind of view myths more meaningfully? It feels vaguely similar to seeing an old piece of art and being struck by the similarity between either the subject or the painter themself; the jarring connection you feel with someone you have never met, yet seems to share your world view. It makes me feel that there is some kind of connection between humanity that roots itself in our creativity - maybe it's our desire to know why we were given life, but it connects us all. I kind of went on a tangent, but those are the kind of feelings that this experience has left me with! (:
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