Going into the blog, I had planned on writing about the fractals video we had watched, or a discussion we had on the advancement of technology, something of that sort. But then I started to think back to the day we watched the video on the Starlings, and talked about myths.
To me, that was the best idea we talked about in class this week.
It really got me thinking, of how important myths were, and still are, to people. Also, how much they helped people to understand certain things and ideas. As stated in Sophie's World, myths were used to help people understand why thunder occurred. They were in a time where there was no way to figure out what was going on or what it was, so of course a myth would help.
In addition, we talked about the sense of creativity it adds, which I think many people seemed to overlook just a bit. When there is an interesting story behind why there are waves in the ocean or why skunks smell, it adds beauty to everything, possibly a beauty we did not originally see. Instead of just that scientific, most likely boring explanation, there's now this awesome reason.
Myths serve several purposes, and talking about it in class really helped me realize the important of them then and now.
Sophia I think you bring up a good point when you say myths add "beauty to everything". It's like that day in class when we had a scientific view and a mythical view about the birds that all flew together. The mythical stories that we all came up with were funny and made us all smile. They were beautiful and seemed to have some deep meaning in them. On the other hand, the scientific stories were interesting, yet not so thrilling. The birds gained beauty from the myths. It also reminds me of creating beauty out of something that is not; for example a tarantula. They give everyone the shivers! But add the beauty to it and you get the rhythm and pattern of it's movement. This is a very good blog Sophia!
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