the-new-mythology posts

Human beings have been telling each other stories since the beginnings of language. Sometimes our stories are about ourselves, to celebrate victories, comfort each other in defeat, and help draw our community closer together by shared experience. Other times, our stories are told to help explain the world to each other, an attempt to understand why and how things happen.

Early humans (before the scientific method was invented) found it useful to personalize natural phenomena like fire, earthquakes, and thunder and rain by embodying them in human-like entities of great power, calling them gods. By telling each other stories about the gods and their ways, humans were able to assert some form of control over the otherwise random nature of their existence -- even if this control was only in their minds.