Making Myths Ironically Requires Facts. Also Every Myth Has Some Kind Of Lesson To Learn From It.

    For this month I and my peers have been primarily focused on myths. From the types of myths there are to their tropes and themes. We even had two projects on them, a group project focusing on making a presentation on a specific myth of our choice, and a solo project where we created our own myth about the origins of something. Both were very fun and insightful, but one thing that I understood was very important regarding the studying of myth and creating myths is facts! As ironic and much of an oxymoron as it sounds, facts are very important when it comes to myth, primarily historical facts regarding myths in general. Myths, whether their actual content in them be real or not, are ultimately literature of a cultural and religious variety and are therefore also history. When my team did our presentation on the norse god Loki and his myth I was assigned the role of providing the historical context on the god. I had to do a bit of research on Loki, his history with the people who followed him. Primarily his relationship to Lucifer from the abrahamic religions and how missionaries compared Loki to Lucifer to help the pagans who followed the norse religion more easily convert. This actually helped and enhanced my individual myth project where I had to create my own myth, because I also chose to utilize historical facts to make my own myth. My myth was about how the origin of the computer came from the ancient king of Judah, King Solomon, and how the circuitry of computers was actually powered by sealed demons. This is because according to the historical myths surrounding King Solomon that I researched about, he supposedly found a way to seal demons and make them do his bidding. While creating a myth requires some originality on your part given you are making it yourself, and making a presentation about a myth requires studying it, both greatly benefit from the use of some historical facts regarding myths. For making your own myth it is useful as a source to draw inspiration from, I have seen many of my peers myths parallel real ones throughout history so I am not the only one who utilized the factual history of other myths for my own. And for making a presentation on a myth it's basically required because how are you going to do a study and presentation on a myth without studying the historical facts about it? Point is the history behind the myth is important to!

    On another note, what I learned from this experience regarding myths is that myths all have an important moral or philosophical lesson in them. The lesson may be about bravery, kindness, how to outwit someone, or even more complex things like feminism and breaking gender norms (as was the case with the myths surrounding the Hindu goddess Kali). Learning about myths is a good reason for you to broaden your perspectives on life, their lessons might help you or inspire you. There is also the beauty of interpreting the myth and its lessons in your own way that may have never been considered before! The same can be said when it comes to teaching myths to students, as learning about these myths might affect them in a positive way with the lessons they are trying to teach, and provide them with an interest in history or mythology, giving them a possible career choice they might want to consider later on in life. To end it off, overall the myths portion of our class was really fun!