Search results

"Odin" is a name that most people have heard, even if they know nothing else about Norse mythology. Now I like the stories associated with Odin, he had a great sense of justice - but was he a bit of an extremist or maybe an exhibitionist. He exchanged an eye for wisdom and he hung himself in a...

I've read a little about Jung's theory on the collective unconscious and feel that there must be some connection between this psychological hypothesis and the impact of myth in human societies across barriers of time and geography. Any thoughts ?

"In with the old - out with the new" - I suppose the declaration of resolutions for the year to come is one of the most overused (and ill kept) traditions. A pleasanter one - and porbably easier to keep - is to kiss somebody at midnight. I guess it depends on who you're kissing and the nature...

Are myths being created as we live and breath ? For example, is the modern "cult of celebrity" creating records that future generations will see as late 20th and early 21st century myths? What other current human activity could be giving rise to myths?

I heard this urban myth when I was in an area of Spain that had suffered terrible forest fires. There were firefighting planes that would scoop water from ther sea and then fly over the forest fires and dump the water. It was said that one year, once the fires were under control, the body of a...