A Better Fate: Mythology and the Creation of Meaning
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published 12/10/2007
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Summary
Mythology: the bookstore catalogue designation where religions go to die. When the believers cease believing in their gods, and when the gods cease believing in themselves. We often forget we once worshiped Zeus and those other “primitive” gods with the same blind passion and fear as we dedicate to Jesus Christ. Yet religions, like the civilizations founded on their tomes and tablets, exist in cycles. They rise and fall. But during the rise, the fall is never visible; the end is forever beyond the horizon. Rome was not built in a day, but what Roman would not contest that stones crumble far quicker than they are carved? Dead religions, stripped of faith, litter the collective consciousness of mankind. Still, they are more pervasive, more persuasive, than we realize. More pervasive and persuasive, in fact, than they were alive. Embedded in culture, embedded in literature, mythologies reach further into the core of humanity than any active religion through the very distance that delegates them to a shelf somewhere behind history, behind World War II and the Middle East, as a study of ancient ways of life far from the shelves of Bible’s and the modern world.
Table of Contents
- Mythology: the bookstore catalogue designation where religions go to die.
- Once, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome were not myths at all.
- With the death of a religion, with distance, meaning can exist.
- I believe we can find direction, instruction, better in the past than the present.
- One day, Christianity will join the Greeks and Romans, the Celtics and Norsemen, the Egyptians and Native Americans on the shelves of mythology.
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