Not everything you don’t understand is a myth.
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I feel like myths are any attempts at all to understand; to translate something existing into an abstract, representative collection of symbols comprehensible by mind, which at a time are collectively agreed upon and then discarded upon the development of new representations.
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After the collection of explanations regarding existence 'expires', it begins to be considered a mythology; untrue or imaginary. It's important to note that e.g. in the middle ages in Europe, the church held a similar authority regarding the origins of life as science does today.
It's curious to note that the the word "myth" is derived from the Greek word "mythos", meaning speech, thought, word, story or "anything delivered by word of mouth".
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I think you are accurately describing the mechanism of “mythology”. Yet our modern inability to take pride in our delusion of progress makes us think that the representations are imaginative structures.
Would anyone think that Apollo shared a real existence ? Or dragons ?
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Through the limitations of psychology we degraded the true existences of forces and entities well beyond the subjective realm. Not everything is reducible to a symbol representing a psychological reality, as there things surpassing our psychology.
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It is an illness originating from the Ego to discard anything that reminds the Ego from it’s own understanding. “A myth cannot be true because we are evolved, and it cannot be more than what I expect to be”
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