Telling the Truth about Immortality II

Deconstruction of a Definition

According to wikipedia,
a. Myths are stories that a particular culture
believes to be true
b. & that use the supernatural
c. to interpret natural events
& to explain
d. the nature of the universe and humanity.

As good a definition as any

A. Myths are the creation of storytellers,
their existence only between pages
or in the humming vibration of oration
read to enlighten & amuse & terrify
a snapshot of a community
that harbor’s it’s own creator.

Regardless of the subject matter,
myths themselves are manifestations
of someone’s own fancy
though their creator may populate the work
with local heroes, legends, & Gods
they are secondhand replications
produced by the artist’s
singular interpretation.
i.e.

The well established
polytheistic religion of the Hellenic Republic
existed before, above, & throughout
Homer’s epic works.

Homer may have influenced the views
of those followers with his interpretation
of the God’s roles in living history.

But his work was nowhere considered doctrine
it didn’t need to be
to be effective.
The belief from which his stories
drew their models
proceeded his personal inception
in both time & influence.

Never had his Myths
shared the same space
as the devotion he laid
before his belief’s own being.

B. The Supernatural, also by wiki, is defined
as pertaining to an imagined order of existence
beyond the scientifically visible universe.

So, man is of nature,
he percieves as an animal might
though,
his awareness seperates him
from the beastial
there is a sense of self
& so also,
an environment which houses it.

He is not a part of his surroundings,
he negotiates with his surroundings
& so his perception
is dependant on the physical world
for it permits his sense of self
to exist independantly.

Because the awareness of existence
contains the awareness of self
existence then contains self
& self’s own distinctive properties.
i.e.

All ideas of faith & belief,
the concept of truth,
science dependant
on individually recorded & verified findings,
personality,
civilization,
justice,
probability,
& percievable fact.

Man’s conception of the universe
is foremost dependant
on man’s internalization
of his existence.

Nature, no less, a human construct,
so that which is Supernatural
(latin: supra "above" + natura "nature")
is above human conception.

C. When man aims to explain
the physical world
he gathers evidence,
relates the evidence to what he knows to be true,
& draws conclusions
from what he can percieve in the difference.

If myths wish to explain
that which is above human conception
then the artist gathers evidence
from all that can be ascertained,
relates that evidence
to their internalized construct of truth,
& draws conclusions
from what they percieve in the difference.

Therefore myth is the result
of the artist’s personal interpretation
of their belief in the supernatural
(all that is inconceivable)
as it relates to the accepted truths
of their personal sense of existence
(all that is conceivable)
to finally,
examine the overlay.
i.e.

The truth which is known but not understood
The actions devoid of reason
The effects which bear no consequence

D. The nature of the universe and humanity,
as far as the Mythologer is concerned,
pivots on a single point
within the grey resolve of reasoning,
where the unexplainable
& the inconceivable
meet
& expose everything
& nothing
simultaneously.
i.e.

A man standing on the rock face
eyes wide
but unafraid & without shock
The air feels like rain in the summer
usually does along the equator
damp & cool in the 8pm sun
It’s still too warm for his raincoat
in the floating rain.

A space without reason for heroes
& without reason for malice & greed
& heartache & looming pride
a reasonless world

The universe is extracted
into each bolt of lightning
that strikes the dry brush
or strikes the deep water
or strikes a man dead
or strikes him to no effect

These things are without reason
yet our historical & modern myth makers
have insisted on assigning reason to each
falling tree or squaking bird
& offering some antropomorphic entity
as a likely enough culprit.

& our Mythologer understands this.

When explaining the unexplainable
a representation or model
is often the most effective tool available
to express the unexpressable.

But it is the fault of human perception
the limit of its scope
it’s plain disability in understanding
let alone communicating
it’s own error
that keep us from telling the true stories
of how some figure we can't comprehend
is involved
in incidences
we, too, can not conceive of.

Frankly, that deconstruction was exhausting.
Come back for part III, Morals of Chaos, tomorrow.