Mythology and its Significance

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Submitted by: Muhammad Bin Naveed (Arch-237-2006) Submitted to: Ms. Faiza Moatasim Subject: Research Methodology Date: 15th April 2009 Mythology and its Significance Myth has been with humanity as far back as us “modern” humans have been able to discern. But sadly its importance has been lost in translation from our “primitive” to “modern” state, which perhaps indicates that we aren’t as evolved as we judge ourselves to be. Simply put, our modern age is excessively fast and undeniably more complex that our ability to understand those complexities. Humanity has removed so far away from itself, so far outward and onward that it has lost the road to knowing what lies at the roots of its existence. Our constant need to work and play ever faster and quicker and more easily has left us inextricably tied to the outward physical world, bound by the fetters of time, and disconnected us from the pursuit of discovering our inner selves. The ancients, in their myths, have attempted to boil down their knowledge of a “core” of the human condition, gleaned over many millennia, a span of time they, with their largely distraction free age, had at their disposal. The knowledge they thus reaped, in an age where the lives of men were purer, and whatever they comprehended of their existence happened at a naturally occurring and gradual pace. It is this knowledge that we need to accept and acknowledge now, when we most need it in our age of blatant self-indulgence, in order to progress to a new mental rather than physical state of being, for we, with our ever shortening days and ever increasing physical needs, cannot possibly even attempt to start from scratch to try and understand ourselves. To the modern man, the word myth denotes something indiscernible, inflexible, something in the air that can’t be verified and distinguished from mere nothingness. The word “myth” has
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