{"id":2371531,"date":"2016-02-11T13:16:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T19:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/?p=2371531"},"modified":"2023-01-06T22:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T04:01:38","slug":"myths-still-powerful-for-storytelling-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearwaterpress.com\/oneyearnovel\/blog\/myths-still-powerful-for-storytelling-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Myths: Still Powerful for Storytelling Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oyan-blog-myths-pinterest\"<\/a>Justin Ferguson, Guest Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Someone once told me that the reason we find stories to be universally appealing\u00a0across time and cultures despite differing belief systems is that storytelling is inherently\u00a0secular. I disagree. I believe the universal appeal of stories is that they are inherently\u00a0religious<\/strong>. Why? Because religion is about understanding how we relate to the world\u00a0beyond us and to ourselves\u2014and so is story. The stories most important to us give us\u00a0insight into who we are and why we are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From the earliest days of the human race, we have told stories to make sense of\u00a0ourselves, our world, and our place in it<\/strong>. Stories of the divine, of creation, of wars in the\u00a0heavens, and falls from innocence. Stories to explain the nature of God, the universe,\u00a0death, and eternity. These stories we call myths, and they were told not simply for\u00a0entertainment, but to understand the nature of life on this planet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Today the term \u201cmyth\u201d has come to have several meanings. The most unhelpful is\u00a0that a myth is \u201ca story that is not true.\u201d While correct in a simplistic sense, this meaning\u00a0is useless to storytellers. By this definition, all<\/em> fiction should be considered myth, and\u00a0this robs myth of its particular potency.<\/p>\n

A more accurate definition would be \u201ca cultural story that explains reality.\u201d<\/strong> How did\u00a0this earth come to be? The gods fashioned it from the flesh of a primordial giant. Why do\u00a0we have seasons? Because the goddess of agriculture and fertility withdraws her gifts\u00a0from the world during the months in which she\u2019s separated from her daughter. Why do\u00a0we die? Because the cat sent to retrieve the potion containing eternal life left it with a tree\u00a0while he took a bath (which is also why trees live so long and, presumably, why cats are\u00a0no longer particularly fond of baths).<\/p>\n

But even this definition falls short of explaining the real power of myth and why it\u00a0still matters for us today<\/strong>. After all, these stories are no longer necessary to explain our\u00a0world, and the religions some of them birthed are now extinct.<\/p>\n

It has long been a source of intrigue and debate that many cultures across the world\u00a0have similar stories<\/strong>\u2014in many cases nearly identical. From trickster gods to god-men,\u00a0from gods who die and rise again to children of gods who become divine, from loss of\u00a0paradise through pride or deception to great floods destroying the earth, the parallels are\u00a0astonishing. For Christians, the explanation is simple: we remember.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tolkien coined the term \u201csubcreator\u201d to describe our role as storytellers made in the\u00a0image of God. God, the supreme Author, created this Primary World in which He tells\u00a0His Story through history; and we \u201csubcreate\u201d secondary worlds in which to tell our own\u00a0stories in the image of His. As a result, these worlds and stories of ours are reflections in\u00a0varying degrees of the world and Story we live in<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

But myth is more than just a reflection of reality; it\u2019s the memory of a specific reality<\/strong>\u00a0that we have almost forgotten. There\u2019s a reason why the atmosphere of a myth is almost\u00a0universally remote. In myth we are remembering something we no longer have access to<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We remember imperfectly, and, more often than not, the stories we piece together out of\u00a0our fragmented memories are little more than perverted echoes; but they still hold\u00a0recollection of that Truth we once knew.<\/p>\n

Why does this matter for us? Because as Christians our mission is redemption<\/strong>, and as\u00a0Christian storytellers our special tool for that task is story. In Christ and the Gospel we\u00a0see the fulfillment of all these myths: the God who became a man to save His fallen\u00a0creation, died, returned to life, and united us to Him. In Tolkien\u2019s words, \u201cHistory and\u00a0legend have met and fused.\u201d Myth has become fact.<\/strong> And that colors our entire approach\u00a0to stories.<\/p>\n

We shouldn\u2019t feel the least threatened by the similarities between Christianity and\u00a0pagan myths. Instead we should embrace the points of connection and use them to affirm\u00a0the Truth that we know<\/strong>. Growing up in a Christian home, I would often find myself jaded\u00a0about the Bible and its stories. It wasn\u2019t that I didn\u2019t believe the stories, I\u2019d just heard\u00a0them so often that they\u2019d lost their force. Learning to see Christianity in the myths of\u00a0other cultures gave me a fresh perspective. I rediscovered<\/em> the Truth.<\/strong> By tracing Christ in\u00a0the death and eventual resurrection of the Norse god Baldur, for example, I found new\u00a0appreciation for His beauty.<\/p>\n

Secularization has not changed human culture as much as we might think. We still\u00a0remember<\/strong>, and we still tell stories to explain ourselves and our world. We may have\u00a0removed some of the more obviously religious language, but our stories are still religious.<\/p>\n

What are our myths as a culture? How do they inform the way we live? Rather than\u00a0simply trying to demolish these stories by denouncing them as lies, what memories of\u00a0Truth can we find in them<\/strong>? These are what give the myths their power, and by affirming\u00a0the Truth where we find it we have the opportunity to tell stories that draw particular\u00a0attention to it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And because Truth is universal through time and space, the old myths have not lost their\u00a0relevance. Many beloved fantasy writers, like Tolkien and Lewis, retold their favorite\u00a0myths in ways that highlighted the truths <\/strong>they noticed in them. We can do the\u00a0same\u2014even if we\u2019re not writing fantasy.<\/p>\n

What myths do you love? Why do they draw you? What archetypes do you find yourself\u00a0returning to over and over again in your stories? Memories of Truth give these their\u00a0weight, and by learning to recognize that Truth when you see it, you will be able to reveal\u00a0it all the more effectively in your writing. And, perhaps most importantly, you will learn\u00a0to love the Truth all the more<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>About Justin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin has been a student with The One Year Adventure Novel<\/a><\/em> for several years and has been writing since he was a kid. He desires his stories to evoke wonder and longing in readers like his favorites do in him<\/strong>. He is a Texan who lived for many years\u00a0in Canada and is now in Kansas. He’s in the process of collecting as many mythologies as are available. He also enjoys attempting to play the ocarina from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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