Myth Making
Creating a myth has proved to be harder and less intuitive than one may seem. Just like writing poetry, writing your own myth must first involve having knowledge of prior myths. Having knowledge or understanding of prior myths allows one to see that they usually attempt to answer a fundamental question about life that without science is unanswerable. So to come to terms with reality, people would come up with stories. And sometimes they don’t always make sense; myths are fantastical, spiritual, and often involve personification of a phenomenon. But what they do have in common is a story, usually with some type of conflict. Though working on my own myth, I understand it doesn’t simply take fantastical events to create an odd story. It’s got to make sense in some way. For my myth creation process, I took an already existing myth and tried to provide my own explanation where some of the stories fell short about Dionysus. I provided a reason as to why alcohol provides certain effects ...