Why should we read the myths, what is its value to us?

Question

Thank you, this has been such a big help!

Answer 1

I would recommend to anybody to read both the Bible and the Greek myths. although I don't believe in either. Western literature is full of quotes and allusions to both, and you loose a lot of the different layers in any given text, if you don't know what the author is talking about when they use images and allusions pertaining to those myths.

Answer 2

Try to imagine what the new writers, editors, and publishers of the 21st Century are going to sacrifice from the old works hidden in the back recesses of the Library of Congress.

Myth's grew out of close family ties. Tales were history lesson's, gardening, hunting, and mystery lesson's for the young to learn from to survive.

The language called English US is really a combination of several languages which gave us a better range of description for making the lessons more local and focussed.

An apple, orange, pear, peach, grape, pomegranate, and egg are all round, and in some languages they are all the same. They are the same because they all fell into the category, "Round things". So a child had to be shown the things that could be eaten while saying round in the other languages.

Myth's and Legends have facts and family genealogy tied up in them if the original books are found. "Moby Dick" in it original writing was a Student Book for Whaling towns.

Some of the old books were scholastic works, like Gulliver's Travels, and were too boring and bloody for tender eyes living in the cities of OZ, where Glenda the Good Witch edits books and rewrote them for children in the 18th and 19th Century. Just look at the recent, "20,000 Leagues under the Sea Movie, compared to the one made when Walt Disney was alive and behind the first movie and you can see the difference of then and now.

Answer 3

It has no value for me. They're myths, remember? But it is nice to read books on myths. It really is entertaining, helps pass the time away.

Answer 4

Myths were written to explain things in the natural world or to teach lessons. So it is possible to glean some useful information from them if we learn the lessons that they teach. Otherwise, just enjoy a nice story.

Answer 5

For the insight on how the human mind works, and how our history has been shaped are just two basic reasons. There are many more reasons and lessons that can be learned, but that is up to the individual to endeavor to learn. Another great reason is that they are fun, interesting, and mysterious.

Answer 6

Myths are metaphor and they do have meaning in the here and now. Carl Jung was a psychologist/psychiatrist who interpreted dreams and behaviour of his patients through mythology to understand what was really going on in their psyche.

Answer 7

Myths are important because they reflect the themes of human nature, in all it's twistedness.....and beauty......it directly connects us to the past and those who lived it, in an experience that in itself is alive, because you may be experiencing it from the exact standpoint of an ancient society. We in this modern age can identify with quintessential themes of days gone by and those who lived then by myth, we can gain greater understanding
of ourselves

Answer 8

A MYTH ORIGINALLY WAS A TRUE STORY TO WHICH A LOT AF FADS WERE ADDED AND THAT TURNED IT INTO A FALLACY,SO IF YOU READ IT ,TRY TO FIND THE CORE OF IT NOT THE TOO MUCH MARGINAL DETAILS

Answer 9

well... its like a thing telling us about morals and how we can change it may not be about the actual story or myth but it can change you perception on life in general and its just fun listening to them and reading them

Answer 10

Some of them have good morals but most are twisted and weird i just finished a class on Greek mythology and all i got out of it was that the Greeks where crazy. no offense to any Greeks out there!