I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
I am attracted to myths.
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
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