Myth-ology

Since the Pashan Yug - the stone age- several myths have been stingily followed by the storytellers, the religious seers. They have exerted hard enough to retrieve the origin of logics inserted by these myths. Their efforts have rendered basis of developed ideological expressions and differentiated it for the understanding today and for the times to come.

The word Myth has its origin from Greek word ‘Mythos’, which essentially means speech/ discourse, but has subsequently evolved and later has come to mean fable/legend. Stories those have lost in times have been explored to root, to rationalize their past existence with the present subsistence. They may have vague origins, but being basically religious and supernatural in nature, the interest never ends. The legends being originated from the basic content of Myth is usually understood by certain sages, but does fascinate every religious and critical mind.

As the historical events have been redesigned and refashioned by various storytellers, it may be hard to replenish the vital facts, which perhaps have perished with passing time and through each passing narrator.

Myths try to rationalize the purpose of Universe and everything existing in it. Giving a cosmological and historical insight to society, this has questioned the scientific interpretation of the Myths. Essentially, it has developed a subtle framework for the societies to understand them, and that too with the sophisticated influence. Also influencing Modern Science and its historical investigations.

Myths encapsulate collective imagination, dream, and this collective aspiration of society does influence our behavior and habits. When we study Myth we will establish that it is much more than an ideology or social phenomena and hence its orientation extends beyond the limits human imagination, beyond its consciousness.

A few general characteristics of mythological thinking have been derived from the fact, which primitive people have kept themselves connected from world, and not differentiate themselves from the natural world.

Another fine characteristic of the mythological phenomena is the weakness of its abstraction, as the modern ethno linguistic data represents. In Myth it is impractical to remove the object content and their space-time relationship, and essentially the situations that define these relationships. To beat the critical analysis, usually done by the common listener, logical analysis and classification is necessary via concrete imagery synthesis without becoming excessively abstract.

For our purpose of related meanings Mythology has been divided into systems, we call them Mythological Systems. These systems were followed by particular societies at a particular time and now they are subsequently being followed. We know them as Egyptian Mythology, Indian Mythology, Maori Mythology (originated in New Zealand) and Greek Mythology. Our ancient civilizations have been limited to these origins and so their remains of these Mythological origins are still alive.

If we group them geographically we have, Oceanic Mythology, Oriental Mythology and African Mythology.

Science evolves with every passing second, and somehow mythology does play a vital role in distinguishing scientific secrets. It is no doubt an acting force behind many aspects of magical and ritual practices. Mythology in an ongoing experience of facts, our society has been planned and structured because of various rational and devout reasons. The sagas and legends have ruled the basic learning of human mind from ages, but we still question their past existence, as we are unaware of many virtual facts. Moreover, it may be hard to stretch out each detail embedded but we sometimes have to accept the unknowing, ironically we have always.