Blog #3
Reflect on how your experience of creating a myth differs from and/ or enhances the study of myth? What did you learn from this experience that you could use in your future teaching/life? Creating my first myth, "Tim: The First Accident", helped deepen my understanding of mythology from a more creative and personal aspect. When studying myths in past classes, we tend to focus on structure, symbolism, and meaning. Focusing more on literary devices and how each story reflects a certain group's worldview. When making my own myth, I realized how important every choice and symbolic piece is to the story, especially based on our own emotional or philosophical impulses. Writing the story forced me to try to explain why the world works in some way while creating new meanings. It allows us to try to answer life’s questions and curiosities, even ones often unanswered. It reminds me a lot of different superstitions or old-wives tales in different cultures or co...