(x = space)
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Favor Hesiod
(writer of Theogony)
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Remember
Myths aren’t lies
That’s for conversation
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Fables are
For teaching, which means
They are
For learning
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The more fantastic
Stretches
With gods and
Agencies for gods
And such
Are a try
At understanding
Truth to questions
Without
Conversation’s answers
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What is time?
Why are their seasons?
Why is this
A good year?
What about
The next one?
What happens after
Death? What is our
Purpose while we’re here?
How might we live
With passion?
Why do we have it
In the first place?
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Not lies
But tries at truth
Without the words
Or understanding
Motivations of
Forces outside
Ourselves and
Ourselves
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What happens when
Someone climbs
Parnassus or Olympus
Has a reason, too,
And a story
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For all we’re told
And tell ourselves
Old stories are foolish
If not stupid,
We still ask questions,
Same questions
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Some answers
Will be chemical
Now,
But elements
Persist above
The table in a
Ring of sky
(or under
Earth)
That we cannot find
For all our wishing
All our striving
All our talking
For a purpose
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So we return to stories
And make new ones
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C L Couch
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Theogony, myths about gods, creation, and more
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A Rendition of Life on Planet Earth
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6638499
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June 4, 2021 at 3:37 pm
Brilliant. Joseph Campbell wrote “myth is much more important and true than history because history is just journalism and we all know how reliable that is.”