Storylab Week 15
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Storylab Week 15:
Thoughts from the Watch: Crash Course videos
· Cool explanation of mythology as a blend of all these different fields. Good from to think of it facilitates understanding of certain aspects that may not make sense
· Myths are old, that’s what makes them cool! They’ve withstood the test of time because they are essentially
· Was about to finish that last thought and then they discussed the idea that we have no idea what exactly myths are which makes more sense
· Interesting how they point out the blurry line separating religion and myth early. But I like that they do this because whether you believe in a particular religion or not I think it’s something important to consider particularly in consideration of how that religion came to be what it is today and what role religion and myth both play as evolutionary mechanisms.
· They did a good way of approaching that line though and explaining they are talking about myth and stories that may also be religious stories as stories that people used in a variety of ways. I am sure some people still got upset about it.
· Mythos = word/story, cool origin
· 2 characteristics of myth, significance and staying power. I think this boils it down pretty well.
· Big fan of the thought bubble visualizations of stories. Helps add a new depth and realness to some of these stories.
· Myths as primitive form of science: interesting perspective because myth did serve that purposes for a lot of history (explaining the natural world). However this does not consider the role myths still play today.
· Would not have guessed that Plato was the first major scholar to suggest myths were irrational,
· Euhemerism as “myths are primitive explanations of natural world or as time-distorted events” is interesting. The fact that Christian scholars who came after used this to discount myths and explain that they came from demons is even wilder.
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