Why There's No New Mythology

by Panzer
in ancient Greece the moon goddess Artemis knocks an arrow and signals to her band of sworn Maiden
Hunters as her twin brother Apollo rides his Sun Chariot across the sky in Scandinavia
the oneeyed Norse god Odin stalks the world of midgard seeking the famed meat of poetry which
will transform the Drinker into one of the most knowledgeable among all scalds and Scholars in
ancient Egypt the Goddess Isis collects all the pieces of her murdered husband Osiris's
body and reassembles him so that can conceive a son Horus do you ever wonder what happened
to stories like these why this kind of tale was only told by the Ancients why there's no
new mythology well the answer to that is of course that there is pick up any novel from
the fantasy section of your local bookstore and you'll likely find some kind of Mythology
that forms the basis of its fictional World in fact thanks to the internet there are probably
more mythologies now than there ever have been at any point in human history what a wonderful
time we live in but that's not actually what you meant is it you're not here wondering about
fictional mythologies from fictional worlds are you you probably want to know about the
real deal myths like the ones I mentioned just a moment ago what happened to them will we ever
see people telling genuine stories like that again you almost have to wonder is mythology
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be the first problem with that question is that a lot of Mythology is actually just religion people
weren't just using the sun Chariot of Apollo as a metaphor for the rising and setting of the sun
they actually believed that that was what was happening and as tends to be the case with most
religion expressing your skepticism of these beliefs was not exactly appreciated just ask
Socrates you may have noticed though that we don't call Modern religious stories myths that
would feel pretty rude wouldn't it that's because the term myth has another meaning something that
isn't true or at the very least whose veracity is dubious the show MythBusters videos promising to
debunk the top 10 weight loss myths that sort of thing not the implication you usually want
to make about somebody else's deeply held beliefs so we tend to reserve the term myth for the dead
religions the gods who don't have anyone left to feel offended for them but when you ask why
there's no new mythologies you probably aren't asking about religions either are you because
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YouTube channel you're looking for so if not Gods from fictional worlds and not religions then what
exactly are we even talking about here let's get academic for a sec the term myth itself comes from
the ancient Greek word Mythos and it referred to any thought idea or story delivered by way