-Myths both create and connect the conscious and unconscious desires of both individuals and cultures through a framework of allegory, metaphor and archetypal association. Indeed, much of the desires of the individual are connected to the desires of the culture through the individual’s association with that culture’s mythology. As the stories are shared through the spoken word, the written word, song, artwork, and other creative expressions, they come to reinforce, reinterpret and retell the story of the culture which shares them. In ancient monotheistic, creationist mythology, Satan is the originator of rebellion against an imposed hierarchy, thus the fictional character of Satan can be interpreted as the characterization of an originator of anti-authoritarian direct action, as a sort of mythological proto-anarchist.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:17:48 +0000
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