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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
-Edith Hamilton
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Myths Are Early Science, The Result Of

Edith Hamilton
Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. we have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.
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Myths are about the human struggle to deal with the great passages of time and life--birth, death, marriage, the transitions from childhood to adulthood to old age. they meet a need in the psychological or spiritual nature of humans that has absolutely nothing to do with science. to try to turn a myth into a science, or a science into a myth, is an insult to myths, an insult to religion, and an insult to science. in attempting to do this, creationists have missed the significance, meaning, and sublime nature of myths. they took a beautiful story of creation and re-creation and ruined it.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become. there have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, im convinced, bad ones, because they made people sick. so certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Thus science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths; neither with the collection of observations, nor with the invention of experiments, but with the critical discussion of myths, and of magical techniques and practices.
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Writers are makers, not just transmitters, of myths. literature offers not only myths but counter-myths, just as life offers counter-experiences - experiences that confound what you thought you thought, or felt, or believed.
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Myths are the prototype for all stories. when we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
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