Category: Mythos & Modernity

Spoiler Alert. You’ve been warned. And now things are already being transformedfrom words to deeds—the earth is shuddering,the roaring thunder from beneath the seais rumbling past me, while bolts of lightningflash their twisting fire, whirlwinds toss the dust,and blasting winds rush out to launch a warof howling storms, one against another.The sky is now confounded…

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. – Joseph Campbell What we talk about when we talk about hope changes from person to person, thought to thought, reality to reality. The unique part of the American mythos is that we are often oblivious to what Pandora supposedly left trapped inside her jar. We, sometimes…

small disclaimer: I am writing this specifically from the gaze of a white cis-male observer of both society and media. I use language that presumptive of this gender identity because it is my story, to tell you — whoever you are. If there were mortal women in Greek mythology before Pandora, their stories were not…

Zeus and humanity had a weird relationship that I still don’t really get, but we talked about it a lot in late-20th / early-21st century American Public Schooling, so forgive me if I’m light on details but heavy on sarcasm. Mythology belongs to the teller, so take a seat. As it goes, a Titan by…