The function of myth is to put us in sync—with ourselves, with our social group, and with the environment in which we live. One of the most interesting and simple ways to get this message is from the mythologies of the Navaho. Every single detail of the desert in which they live has been deified, and the land has become a holy land because it is revelatory of mythological entities. When you recognize the mythological aspect of Mother Nature, you have turned nature itself into an icon, into a holy picture, so that wherever you go, you’re getting the message that the divine power is working for you. Modern culture has desanctified our landscape and we think that to go to the holy land we have to go to Jerusalem. The Navaho would say, This is it, and you’re it. I’m talking now in terms of mythologies; this isn’t heresy because I don’t believe these things to be literally, concretely, true. Joseph Campbell, Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine, p.19
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:54:57 +0000
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