The use of
the expression "myth" as a lie or invention is widespread among us;
without forgetting this use, we intend to open other dimensions of the myth
that they are completely excluded in that characterization.
To do this,
we clarify that the myths are stories whose main purpose is not to entertain
but to convey a particular spiritual instruction. It can be summarized in two
thematic areas: on the one hand, information that a human group considered
valuable to the survival. On the other hand, everything that allow emerge and
strengthen the identity of the community and its members. The spiritual
instruction will be then, for a person or a community, a valuable support for
addressing the challenges of its evolution.
In this sense
we are wary of the proposals of personal evolution to be carried out by an
individual atomized and exiled from their roots. Therefore, the spiritual
instruction of the myth can be understood as a "building from the
inside"; our individuality is re-mean in the community to which we belong.
It is no
surprise then that the myth condenses - through their gods, heroes and
monstrous beings, their tests and fighting, its objects loaded with high
symbolic value- the possible paths, warnings and obstacles lurking, in the task
of the personal and collective evolution.
If we ask
for a moment: why we continue captivating - even transferred to cinema,
sometimes with its limitations and other, with his greatness- Achilles,
Ulysses, Hercules, Medea, Helen of Troy and the loves of Aphrodite and Ares?
Why we are baffled by the Titans, the Giants and the battles of Zeus? Why
arouses our admiration the trinity of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva and the history
of Romulus and Remus in the origins of Rome? Why fall many of our prejudices?
What do they tell us the men of maize from the Popol Vuh; Elal, the hero of the
Tehuelche mythology? To mention only a few.
The answer
is that if the myth were just fantasy and invention, a mere adornment literary,
probably these figures do not would echo in us. Echo because what they do and
starring, is not something that happened in the past but something that happens
continuously in each one of our lives and in the lives of the communities.
Although we
are lost the origin of the myth, its messages are as current today as they were
at the time when he began to be reported. Because they originate in archetypes
that each culture transformed to your style. That is why there are many myths -
and even more, different versions of the same myth - and all are
"true". The myths are, as the wise men say "what it is worth to
be told".
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