myth (n.) is destroyed not by logic, but by the withdrawal of the Gods.

Martin Heidegger on Myth

Become Real Through Repetition

Create Echoes

Decrease Resolution

Echo

Endure

Exist Only As Records

Grow In Darkness

Invite Interpretation

Need Interpretation To Exist

Outlive Evidence

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Intentions

Outlive Their Purpose

Outlive Their Usefulness

Survive Their Container

Travel Well

myth

animal

biology

ology (the study of)

literature

religion

glass

trivia

stained glass

memory

goldfish

typewriter

keyboard

QWERTY

Bermuda Triangle

moon

Great Wall of China

the narrative shape of history, as in 'Decline and Fall.'

MYTH Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip

represents as outward what occurred inwardly.

Recast in definition form from: “… The myth represents as outward that which occurred inwardly. …”

is destroyed not by logic, but by the withdrawal of the Gods.

Historians and philologist, by virtue of a prejudice which modern rationalism adopted from Platonism, imagine that mythos was destroyed by logos. But nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic... it is destroyed only by the God's withdrawal' (Heidegger 1954 : 10)

means the telling word — for the Greeks, telling is laying bare and letting appear.

Recast in definition form from: “… Myth means the telling word. For the Greeks, to tell …”

proves that human beings always already understand themselves — otherwise no one could 'live' in a myth or bother with magic in ritual and cult.

Recast in definition form from: “… For otherwise, Dasein would never 'live' in a myth and …”

taken as a starting point leads only to the triviality that what was once "irrationally" experienced will later be put in the light of reason.

Recast in definition form from: “… the "triviality" that what is here "irrationally" experienced will later …”

becomes an object of historians' and psychologists' investigation once the gods have fled — compensation for the void they leave.

Recast in definition form from: “… then the gods have fled. The resultant void is compensated …”

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