| Most people think that the word "myth" is false | | | | being, hold our psyche together, and give us hope |
| and therefore unimportant when nothing could be | | | | to tomorrow. Carl Jung felt that the structures of |
| further from the truth. A myth is simply a sacred | | | | our myths were buried deep within our society |
| story concerning the origins of the world or how | | | | and it's from there that he developed his concept |
| the world and the creatures in it came to be. The | | | | of the "collective unconscious". |
| active beings in myths are generally gods and | | | | Could it be that we're "unknowingly" following the |
| heroes. Myths often are said to take place before | | | | Aztec myth which held that the cosmos dissolved |
| recorded history begins. A myth is believed to be | | | | and then regenerated itself on some regular cycle. |
| true by people who attach religious or spiritual | | | | They called that world the Fifth Sun, and they |
| significance to it. | | | | feared it so much that history reveals that they |
| Every culture is based on a mythological substrate | | | | sacrificed some 70,000 people a year just trying |
| which is the glue of that society! | | | | to keep the Fifth Sun alive. |
| Religious-studies scholars often limit the term | | | | Another form of genocide? |
| "myth" to stories whose main characters "must | | | | So while mankind in his foolishness and arrogance |
| be gods or near-gods". The ancient Greeks gave | | | | thinks he's above mythological thinking and |
| us Zeus and Hermes as an example. The Hindus | | | | concepts, maybe we've developed our own which |
| embrace the cosmic divinities such as Vishnu and | | | | are self-destructive and need revisiting. Were |
| Brahma. Christians have the trinity of Father, Son, | | | | tribal cultures that far off and when we look at |
| and Holy Spirit. And the Mesoamerican cultures | | | | what's going on in the world, can we label ancient |
| personified people such as Quetzalcoatl and | | | | tribes primitive and us civilized? Has our technical |
| Itzpapalotli. | | | | expertise and scientific acumen advanced us even |
| So what are the myths of our secular age? | | | | one step closer to our divinity? |
| Even the so-called atheists BELIEVE is | | | | Could spiritually founded myths essentially carry |
| something(s). We have our unproven beliefs in | | | | the meaning to life? Did the Constantine Nicean |
| superstrings, Black holes, and Big Bang theories, | | | | Creed carry with it the seeds of destruction to |
| which are just that. Theories. Postulates! But, | | | | valuable Christian myths? |
| these unproven myths weave our world into | | | | A meaning we no longer comprehend? |