Mythology: The Lost Discipline

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This paper highlights the under-appreciated influence that mythology has had and continues to have in our everyday lives. It covers the importance that myth had to our ancestors and discusses some of the most universal myths and the role they play in our religions and values today.

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"Society has a tendency to disregard the ideas of past generations with unabashed contempt. Today there is little credence paid to the ideas of our intellectual forbearers. The death of our mythology is as evident an example as required to validate that point. Once mythology existed in everyday life, now it is viewed with a sort of embarrassment that members of our species, no matter how archaic, ever held such preposterous stories in high regard. Mythology is the creation of the people and culture which bears it and it no surprise that we dismiss ancient mythology without second thought when it is considered that modern mankind has no mythology. This is a most disturbing problem. "

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