Myth

Myth is a form of Story.

The ancient Greeks used myths to add information to the random world about them: they sensed things and their past learning and cognitions helped them process that which was new; they added the new to the structure of the old; and the stories of myths helped them structure the world physically, dynamically, religiously, and morally, for these myths were their pre-existing structures of consciousness - the scaffolds they used to carry the new marble images to the parthenon of their awareness.

There are narratives that entertain, there are narratives that inform, there are stories that amuse and stories that establish facts; there are stories with political points and there are stories about ethical issues.

There are many kinds of narrative or story; they are not all the same.

Myth is Story that is used to aid in understanding Life.

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The Old Age of the Earth

When our father and our mother, the Earth, grows old and forgetful, when it becomes fretful and complaining, we call it Climate Change or some other science. We hope to bury our burden of responsibility within science and argumenatative politics, for we would rather fight than do what we actually must do: take care of the Earth in its old age... when after having given all, it has no more to give.
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