March
01
/ 2022
A bard travels through the streets, gathering an audience as he goes, and then starts to recall the adventures of heroes and the tales of the gods. In the ancient world, word of mouth was one of the ways for information to travel. Within the annals of history, nothing gives us a clearer window into the ancient world than mythology. By understanding what the ancients believed, we can start to understand their thinking. According to psychiatrist Carl Jung, “Myth is a necessary aspect of the human psyche which needs to find meaning and order in the world.” According to the Oxford dictionary, the literal translation of “myth” is “a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people
