Why There's No New Mythology

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Mythology isn't gone. We just talk about Roco's Basilisk, Mothman, and governments operating for the people instead of Baal, the chimera, and Zeus.

I would say even stuff like Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft could be considered borderline myths. Thanks to how much they have grown beyond their original states.

Urban legends, cryptids, old wives' tales, conspiracy theories, scary stories told in the campfire... we never really outgrew myths.

Trying to look at the sun through a telescope in an attempt to spot Apollo seems like a pretty bad idea.

Wouldn't the SCP foundation be a mythology? Its written by many writers. Some stories don't work in the same cannon as others. They tell you literally to just think of your own cannon more often than not. You even have operating as the unexplainable. However it does not hit the beat of being there to explain how things really work but it does re-contextualize the world as being a part of the SCP universe

American mythology is alive, if not well. When I was a child, I was taught about the first Thanksgiving and Columbus discovering America, etc. So many of those tales had only a passing resemblance to real history, but they were believed like articles of faith. You see a lot of people who react extremely strongly to the questioning of aspects of our history, as if doing so is attacking something sacred.

Grant Morrison wrote a book called 'Supergods" about how superheroes are our modern myth The book's description- "Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men—is the list of names as familiar as our own. They are on our movie and television screens, in our video games, and in our dreams. But what are they trying to tell us? For Grant Morrison, one of the most acclaimed writers in the world of comics, these heroes are powerful archetypes who reflect and predict the course of human existence: Through them, we tell the story of ourselves. In this exhilarating work of a lifetime, Morrison draws on art, archetypes, and their own astonishing journeys through this shadow universe to provide the first true history of our great modern myth: the superhero. I need to reread it, but I remember loving it the first go.

We call it FNAF lore.

What about the mythology of children, like Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny or the Boogieman? This is kind of a mythology, but unusual because it's age-specific.

Here's a modern myth: People who recreationally use Benadryl almost all purport to occasionally see a shadowy figure of a man wearing a hat called "The Hat Man". There is no known origin of the idea and it is spread through chat messages and posts. Some people actually believe he is real in some way.

Honestly, the closest experience I ever had to seeing collaborative work as a core foundation was the Goncharov hallucation the internet had not so long ago. It was so hard to trace who started what, but now you can look back and see the basic premise of a movie that never existed. It was a fun, nonsense trend and sometimes I do miss anonymous people's additions making it to the movie's canon. Even Scorsese acknowledged it and entered the bandwagon lmao

Myths aren't dead we just call them " Urban Legends "

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Mythology =/= legendarium. The word Myth in anthropology means "sacred narrative", and it doesn't just refer to the legendarium, it has as much or more to do with the way the legendarium gets interpreted as the stories themselves. Think "core philosophy". This is how and why it intersects with religion. Religion, BTW, is defined by patterns of behavior, not specifics of belief, artifice, and edifice. It is the collection of rituals and philosophies by which a group defines and identifies itself. Humans think in narrative and are CONSTANLY mythologizing important figures and events. Mythology isn't dead, it just mutated.

"Myth is dead, and we kill it" An random old robot

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One of my favorite explanations of myths actually comes from the “Extra Credits” channel “Myths are not stories that are untrue, rather they are tales that don’t fit neatly into the historical record which serves as a foundation for a culture”

Mythology isn't dead, we just can't see it until several hundred years pass and people write about our mythology, based on folktales and smaller faiths that are forgotten and become an intrinsic part of culture, then we shall see our mythology, thats why it's so good to be an immortal robot

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