Are great myths simple superstitious tales or give us insight into our world and nature? Well this depends on the myths to be perfectly honest. The three myths this theory is based around are Metamorphosis (Greek), The Wooden People (Myan), and The End of All Things (Norse). All three myths have supernatural and real life aspects to them as do most myths. Metamorphosis talks about how “God” shaped our world or how the world was created. The Wooden People talk about how people or mankind was made. And of course The End of All Things talks about the end of the gods or world. Also known as Ragnarok or the end of days. So first of all let us analyse Metamorphosis. Metamorphosis starts out with how the world begins as just a blob or mass of incoherent
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Starting from gray colorless and emotionless beings to living human beings. Showing the transition of man from a lifeless being to one filled with life. How people gained emotions such as fear, anger, happiness and how this shaped them. From here we go to The End Of All Things. The End Of All Things is a norse myth describing the end of the world essentially. The end of man and the gods themselves also known as Ragnarok. Describing how and when the world will end and why. Describing how Ragnarok will come about and decimate the world itself and destroy the gods along with it. So how does one tell if these myths are just that or if there are more to them? Well it’s a bit difficult to tell to be perfectly honest. On one hand you have the made up or part of the myth told simply to entertain. Then there is the part of it that you can take with a grain of salt. The parts that could explain our world itself and how it formed. The line between the two is very blurred and distorted. Could there really have been these lifeless wooden people? Is the way Metamorphosis described how the world formed true or similiar to how it occurred? Was it possible that there were norse gods whose lives ended in some catastrophic event on this planet no one really knows or understands yet. There is no real way to tell so in conclusion it is neither simple myth or simple truth. It is a mish mash of the two forming myths and legends
Starting from gray colorless and emotionless beings to living human beings. Showing the transition of man from a lifeless being to one filled with life. How people gained emotions such as fear, anger, happiness and how this shaped them. From here we go to The End Of All Things. The End Of All Things is a norse myth describing the end of the world essentially. The end of man and the gods themselves also known as Ragnarok. Describing how and when the world will end and why. Describing how Ragnarok will come about and decimate the world itself and destroy the gods along with it. So how does one tell if these myths are just that or if there are more to them? Well it’s a bit difficult to tell to be perfectly honest. On one hand you have the made up or part of the myth told simply to entertain. Then there is the part of it that you can take with a grain of salt. The parts that could explain our world itself and how it formed. The line between the two is very blurred and distorted. Could there really have been these lifeless wooden people? Is the way Metamorphosis described how the world formed true or similiar to how it occurred? Was it possible that there were norse gods whose lives ended in some catastrophic event on this planet no one really knows or understands yet. There is no real way to tell so in conclusion it is neither simple myth or simple truth. It is a mish mash of the two forming myths and legends