The word “mythology” brings images of a Marvel character and maybe some exotic thing; a Norse god or an Egyptian pyramid, etc.
Mythology – the real one – is an embedding of gnomic and esoteric wisdom into a culture through storytelling and other artefacts. It’s the encoded information you pass to your children as you had passed to you; slight variations due to the wider meta-game changes that have occurred during your life notwithstanding.
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