CLST 2090 Lecture : CLST 2090 Notes 1 17 14
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Example that 3 year old tells myth but doesn"t think they are false. She needs to make it up because she has a need that has nothing to do with stories she"s too. Primitive people didn"t have any sciences to deal with their stress. They"d tell a little to question whether witches exist. Primitive people = mythmakers think like children and made up stories to deal with their world. story to deal with stresses and make sense out of experiences. All people make myth = a stage that all cultures go through. Around 1200 bc people in ancient mediterranean world began to make rational stories about past. Eventually they stopped with stories once they developed rational/scientific thinking where they dealt with fear by investigating. The stories come from this age when adults told stories to make sense of experiences. Myths are true in the sense that they illustrate the truth of human nature.
