Hell yeah, I'm in agreement with your premise Eric, I too have found that I need to craft my own myths, and it's not for lack of trying. But what I find time and time again is - like you said - a lot of it feels like pretending. I will admit, I've had many legitimate (feeling) encounters with deities and spirits from a variety of religious belief systems, but in the back (or maybe the front) of my mind, I still know they were created by the Human mind. Even if they were divinely inspired, they were inspired into Human language, through Human hands and mouths, told to Human ears, around Human fires. One interesting commonality is story (oration, progression, morale, symbol, etc.) and another is the stars. I like the concept of the stars as a source for some myths, but I think there's a wild world right here on this planet that we can explore too. Call me a heathen, but I'm with ya.
Hell yeah, I'm in agreement with your premise Eric, I too have found that I need to craft my own myths, and it's not for lack of trying. But what I find time and time again is - like you said - a lot of it feels like pretending. I will admit, I've had many legitimate (feeling) encounters with deities and spirits from a variety of religious belief systems, but in the back (or maybe the front) of my mind, I still know they were created by the Human mind. Even if they were divinely inspired, they were inspired into Human language, through Human hands and mouths, told to Human ears, around Human fires. One interesting commonality is story (oration, progression, morale, symbol, etc.) and another is the stars. I like the concept of the stars as a source for some myths, but I think there's a wild world right here on this planet that we can explore too. Call me a heathen, but I'm with ya.
Hell yeah, I'm in agreement with your premise Eric, I too have found that I need to craft my own myths, and it's not for lack of trying. But what I find time and time again is - like you said - a lot of it feels like pretending. I will admit, I've had many legitimate (feeling) encounters with deities and spirits from a variety of religious belief systems, but in the back (or maybe the front) of my mind, I still know they were created by the Human mind. Even if they were divinely inspired, they were inspired into Human language, through Human hands and mouths, told to Human ears, around Human fires. One interesting commonality is story (oration, progression, morale, symbol, etc.) and another is the stars. I like the concept of the stars as a source for some myths, but I think there's a wild world right here on this planet that we can explore too. Call me a heathen, but I'm with ya.
Hell yeah, I'm in agreement with your premise Eric, I too have found that I need to craft my own myths, and it's not for lack of trying. But what I find time and time again is - like you said - a lot of it feels like pretending. I will admit, I've had many legitimate (feeling) encounters with deities and spirits from a variety of religious belief systems, but in the back (or maybe the front) of my mind, I still know they were created by the Human mind. Even if they were divinely inspired, they were inspired into Human language, through Human hands and mouths, told to Human ears, around Human fires. One interesting commonality is story (oration, progression, morale, symbol, etc.) and another is the stars. I like the concept of the stars as a source for some myths, but I think there's a wild world right here on this planet that we can explore too. Call me a heathen, but I'm with ya.