i dont really kno where to put this but think of it like an intro to the stories
On Introspective Mythology.
For thousands of years, stories have been treasured, shared, and remembered, due to what they can offer us, practically and emotionally.
Before writing, people, storytellers by trade, bards, singers, poets, lyricists… dedicated their lives to memorizing and inspiring others with humanity’s greatest stories, and those people were given great honors.
Why?
Because the best stories did more than entertain… they inspired real, lasting change in their listeners. They taught. They were stories that helped their listeners vibe, thrive, and survive.
They were stories that a mother could rely on. Instead of nagging her child about the benefits of the truth, and perils of lies… which their young minds could never understand… she told him the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and watched as her child figured out the meaning of the story for themself.
Who is It For?
Mythology may belong to humanity…
But my personal mythologies belong to me. And yours to you.
Introspective Mythology is the expression, exploration, and dramatization of the dark and light within.
It is a journaling tool one can undergo anywhere and any time. The writer is free to personify his struggles and goals as characters, and bid his separate subconscious parts to interact with each other, uncertain as to what they’ll say.
It is Carl Jung’s concepts of “The Shadow,” expressed and healed, by being transcended through each stage of Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s Journey.”
JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, it’s been 100+ years and we remember their names. Charles Dickens, 200. Shakespeare, possibly the greatest Modern-Myth maker, over 400 now.
But the oldest name in the literary books is Homer, writer of the Illiad and Odyssey, written over 2700 years ago. And those stories still inspire, yes, and Homer may have been a Greek, writing about GODS, but 2700 years ago, he was just a man, telling stories, and those stories most likely contained elements of his soul as much as elements of the heavens.