So this thing…
I have a thing for mythology. And books. So books about mythology rock my world, and this weekend I bought another two from a sweet used book store here in town.
One is about legends and myths of Micronesia. The other are folk tales from the Ozarks. Neither are recent or meaningful enough to have an existance on the internet, so I can’t link to their covers or anything. But take it from me – these are two sweet books, and if you want to borrow them, just ask!
I like mythology because I think it’s one of the lingering elements that still connects us all as a species. Whether it’s Mayan, Greek or Nordic, everyone has an impressively similar rendering of how the world began, and in some cases, how it’s going to end. Of course, there’s little reason to actually believe in the myths themselves, but I think the stories do serve to remind us all that at one point we had to fight together to get to where we are now.