After viewing 7 videos about myths featuring Joseph Campbell who is considered a leading authority on the subject I would like to start a thread on the subject.
Carl Jung also found these myths fascinating,,and had a great deal to say about them for they reveal things to us about the deep inner workings of the psyche of our species. Myth are a projection of unconscious part of ourselves, that is comunicating to the ego (or conscious part of us) to cause us to act in a certain way that may go contrary to the wants and desires of the ego for our benifit.
Here are some things I have come to apreciate about the subject even though not well versed in it,,I'm sure that many on this forum can speak with much more insight than I on this subject.
Myths give us a connection to the trancsended,,a sort of intermediate,, a way of discribing the undiscribable in artistic story telling form that offer some type of answer to the unknown
Myths are formed help explain our place in the particular society we live
Myths are part our species efforts to deal with our insecurities and social fears
Myths change according to the changes challanges in culture,,2000 year old myths are impractical for todays world, myths in order to be helpful to day need to incorporate our currant world views and advancement in understanding.
I'm sure that many here can add much more to this thread as too what good purpose myth do and what bad some myth do ( ex: like for instance the bibles mythology that teaches nature is corrupt and that nature is separate from god etc...).