Mythology grows out of experience, performing a crucial function for humans: it bridges what we know with what we don’t. This mysterious area between “real” and “pretend” is where dreams and theories, habits and traditions, and all manner of creative things come into being.
Myth is certainly found in story form, but is also expressed in very many other ways: through all of the arts… through government and religion, architecture, craft, and design…dreams, memories, habits…speech patterns, foodways, family traditions…even scientific procedures, economic strategies, and political ideologies… In short, every human construction is mythically infused.
All this occurs at the interface between consciousness and the unconscious, building an incredibly rich territory for exploration and discovery. Dig in!