What Myths Can Tell Us

"A mythical event can mean a change of landscape."- pg 64. This is quite an understatement. A mythologlical event can change an entire life. For example, a god falling in love with a human certainly alters that person's life from what it could have been, more than likely ending in a gruesome death. But then, as we learned in class, every story must end some way, and what is a life but a breathing story. They all start with creation, life symbolizes the middle, and then comes the apocalpse. There are many stories to be told, and many of them are told in "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony". Fascinating stories they are. I've come to the point where I couldn't help but notice that practically everyone in these stories, god and human, appear to be bisexual, or more specifically what we would call pedophiles today. It is interesting how through a book of myth, we are able to see the evolution of what is deemed acceptable in society.