The way creating a myth differs from actually studying myth is that it is nerve wrecking! I’m sitting here trying to find a million ways to be creative, because my myth is really just an advanced narrative. But I’m like, what if people don’t like what I have to say about this myth? Then what do I do? But it also is my myth. I guess another problem would be making my myth make sense, finding pictures that people actually like. Making myths is sort of hard. Because I know that when I’m reading other myths, I can see the fuel and creative fire that went into making them. Largely, I believe that other myths were created to explain something in the world. But our modern myths are just signifying on them to make something fun. I guess understanding that is a key and integral difference. So when studying my own myth and trying to figure out what to make I have to realize that I need to keep it lighthearted. Now I can at least empathize with the people who made all of those wonderful creation myths. I was constantly thinking and going back like, “Is this all making sense? I don’t want this to become too much of a farce.” Creating my own myth was fun and although I’m not sure I would do it again I still did have a blast. The main reason I was able to get through it is by realizing that for the most part it is a narrative. Then I imagined people orally reciting MY narrative. Trying to figure out what parts they would find funny, and what parts they wouldn’t like at all.
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I think the whole idea of a myth IS to have fun with it. Perhaps some of it would be far fetched but in all the myths we read in class there were some pretty out of this world ideas. In my opinion, who cares what other people like or dont like about your myth. You should do whatever you want, let your creativity flow.
ReplyDeleteI don't think myths "these days" are just for fun either because I did my myths on mermaids and they actually have a good amount of historical and religious backstory to them. I'm sure your myth and your website turned out just fine and I will be looking forward to reading it.
Deyonnnccceee! I must say I agree with your post in regards to how nerve wrecking it was to create a myth. I understood that we were writing a story, just as we do in creative writing class. However, having to find pictures to correlate with the myth and make sure that it all made sense in a linear fashion proved to be the most difficult. I also did not account for how long it would actually take to get the website up; it was hard learning how to navigate the pictures, font to where I wanted them all to be.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tara's comment about myths not necessarily being light hearted or without value. I feel like if it were not for our technology driven world today, we might have easily believed some of these myths.