Tag: myths
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A Once for Now
Don’t you just love myth? Not myth as in magical legends, or purposeful deceptions, you understand, but myth as an explanation of origin, an explanation of values, and as a search for the why and how of cultural identity. Myth is the story of who we think we are, and of the place from whence…
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Life after the bedtime story
I’m not sure when I was first introduced to myths -Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces in university to be sure- but I think it was when I was much younger that I became fascinated with the idea of stories which, although often fanciful, tried to explain the meaning and significance of the…
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This thing of darkness
I’m starting to wonder if I was misled during those halcyon days on my father’s knee. It was a time when heroes and villains were easily recognizable -like the white and black hats on the cowboys in the movies that were in vogue then. Apparently, I needed to know who to root for when I…
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