The Methodology of Mythology
Writing Myth In the brief experience I had creating myth, I can definitively assert that it differs greatly in the study of myth. Myths have been told from time immemorial. The weight of that history is carried through every iteration of a particular myth when retold continually. In writing my own myth, I realized that it is impossible to artificially generate that history in a short time. As epic or nuanced as my writing may be of the myth (and I hope it was), it could not capture the centuries of culture building, societal influences, and lives of a people like myths about the Grecian gods, or trickster spiders could do. This vast history becomes more apparent in the brief exposure I have had to myths in the class. I found myself trying to connect trivial occurrences to my myth, even if they weren’t directly related to my overall myth because I feel it would help flesh out the myth itself. This made the myth a little hard to follow and left initial readers confused about w